Carl Mertens - COUNTRY - tournament knife 7 cm

THE TOURNAMENT KNIFE

...often also referred to as a paring knife - is small and handy. It has a comparatively short, saber-shaped blade (7 cm) and is therefore particularly suitable for peeling and cleaning round vegetables and fruit. With this special blade shape, potatoes or apples, for example, can be peeled quickly and easily so that only a very thin skin is formed. In this way, valuable vitamins, which are located directly under the skin, are preserved.

The curved, smooth cutting edge ensures very precise cuts and makes the paring knife the ideal helper for hollowing out and decorating fruit and vegetables.

Each blade is red hot forged from a piece of chrome-molybdenum-vanadium steel and then hardened to approx. 58° Rockwell. The knives are given the right sharpness by experienced knife sharpeners.

• Blade length: 7 cm
• Handmade by CARL MERTENS in Solingen, Germany
• Handle: smoked oak
• Rivets: stainless steel, 3-fold riveted
• Blade material: X50CrMoV15
• Blade type: medium pointed, flexible
• Cutting edge: smooth bevel
• Hardness: 58° HRC
• Blade length: 7 cm
• Overall length: 17,5 cm
• Cleaning: Hand cleaning recommended (mild detergent + warm water)
• Place of manufacture: Made in Germany, Solingen
• Type of production: drop forged

The knives in the COUNTRY series are particularly robust and perfectly balanced in the hand. At the same time, they impress with their high sharpness and long-lasting edge retention. They are forged from one piece and masterfully handcrafted in Solingen.
handcrafted. The individual grain of the smoked oak handles makes each knife unique.