Best reviews of ✨ Bernal Cutlery H Boker / Wyeth Hardware 6″ Carving Knife Carbon Steel Jigged Bone Solingen 1915 To ~20’s 🔥

 H Boker Solingen 6″ forged carbon steel slicer with jigged bone handle. This is a style of drop forged construction that is still used today in Solingen that began when drop forging was adopted in the 1870’s. This blade was origainally hand ground after being drop forged and has been refurbished to be more similar to it’s original geometry; a convex faced side to the blade. 

Wyeth Hardware was established in 1860 and the Boker marking reflects the 1915 version of the tree markings which was used for a time afterwards, this one looks to be approximately from the teens/ 1920’s era.

This knife has been re-ground and thinned behind the edge on a large 3 foot diameter Japanese water stone wheel (kaiten mizu toishi) and then resurfaced with a medium fine finish, our take on an old style grinding and finishing technique. While the particular wheel used to refurbish this knife is typically used in Japanese knife making it is very similar to the old grinding wheels used to shape European and American hand ground cutlery. A convex face to a blade greatly increases a knife’s performance as there is less sticking as there is on a flat face and the blade does not get thick behind the edge nearly as fast as with a flat faced blade. Being that we are often working with old blades that need re-shaping and might have been rusted expect some minor imperfections, we try to give a fresh start to our re-ground blades with an eye towards their original grind style and keeping as much metal is needed on a blade when ever possible. Check out Bernal Cutlery co founder Josh Donald’s book Sharp to see these wheels in use and more about their history in Europe and Japan.