A J Jordan 9" Bullnose Butcher Hand Forged Double Shear Steel 1871-1926 *Rehandled* Wood Care Carving knife NOT included Vintage Wusthof 9

A J Jordan 9" Bullnose Butcher Hand Forged Double Shear Steel 1871 1926 *Rehandled* Wood Care Carving knife NOT included Vintage Wusthof 9 Carving knife NOT included Water quench honyaki makes for the hardest possible edge but due to the rapid heat loss during the quenching has a high failure rate even for experienced smiths large numbers of these were heated for days on end at high temperatures and the resulting bars were broken up (it would break or shear rather than bend once carbon added hence 'shear' steel) and forged welded into a larger mass Butcher and chef knives made at the East India Works marked with AaA1 etc were made with double shear steel and 'seasoned Persian boxwood'