Hot Sale 🧨 Bernal Cutlery Wusthof Dreizak Trident 8″ Chef Knife 1960’s-Early 70’s 🤩

Drop forged carbon steel Wusthof Dreizak Trident carbon steel chef knife represents the post hand work centered style of German knife making but still utilizing carbon steel and a solid wood handle. While Wusthof has become a very common name in German knives there were not so many imported before the mid 70’s when their stainless knives became the stars of many professional kitchens supplanting the previously dominant various Sabatier brands. From the professional kitchen they spread to the home kitchen but in this era of carbon steel and solid wood that had yet to happen. Anecdotally for every 500 old carbon steel Henckels I have come across only one old carbon Wusthof is found, they were not directly imported into the USA until the late 50’s although some found the way here undoubtably through travel and immigration. 

Wusthof’s model of automation replacing hand work began in the Marshal Plan era re-tooling of post WW2 Solingen. Lots of Solingen’s industrial equipment was either destroyed or to taken by the British after the war so a lot of industry was re-imagined. Mr Wusthof imagined having as few employees as possible and hence this era of German knife making begins.  

 

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. 

 

 

Steel Type	Carbon steel
Handle Material	Wood
Weight	7.07 oz
Total Length	13.5″
Blade Length	8.5″
Blade Height (tallest point)	1.562″