N Schreiber & Sons 8" Chef Knife Hand Forged Carbon Steel Solingen 1950s Pasta Tool and scholars in food history 990422201 and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns Handle Length: 118mm Hand forged after drop forged (and originally hand ground as well) with the post war handle shape of the 1950s and 60s (round transition from bolster to handle) with a lot of taper on the blade spine and handle tang It had been sharpened in enough so that the edge was starting to get thick and it has been thinned and re ground here in the old style leaving a thin convex zone in the 1 3 of edge behind the bolster that comes down to a very small bevel