Osage Orange 110mm Cleaver

Forged by hand at his studio north of Vienna from ApexUltra carbon steel, Benjamin Kamon crafts a Chinese cleaver that is anything but ordinary. Standing an eye-popping 110mm tall, Benjamin has hardened the high-performance ApexUltra blade steel, developed in large part by fellow Austrian metalsmith and Eatingtools artist Tobias Hangler, to a whopping 67 HRC on the Rockwell hardness scale. Thin below short, slightly convex bevels, the 205mm / 8.1″ edge is razor sharp, allowing the 15.4oz / 438g overall package to move effortlessly downward through anything between it and the cutting board. Benjamin’s Wave texturing along the flats and an oil-slick etch below a nicely rounded spine give this short-neck vegetable cleaver the unmistakable look of a classic Kamon tool. To manipulate this extraordinary build is a D-shape osage orange wa handle with titanium Torpedo-style end caps with a brushed bronze finish. Removable via a retention bold nut at the rear, care and maintenance of the knife and handle are a breeze. A custom saya is included.