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Here we have a very rare chance to get a wonderful little kitchen knife by one of the pioneers of the custom kitchen knife world.
Many will agree that it was David Boye that was one of the first to create hand made custom kitchen knives early-on ...long before the years of Bob Kramers\' etc....
Here is one of the finest pieces of Modern Hand-Made Cutlery History not only in the creation and design, but in the steel itself.
David Boye pioneered a steel that was cast and is an amazing edge holding properties and also highly anti corrosive too.
All built in a fine knife that will serve for generations to come.
Here with etching by Francine Larstien who did fine artwork on his knives for many many years....in fast her website is one of the only places you will find any of David\'s work for sale currently
and you can see that the prices for his work has gone up sharply over the years, as these are very rare and highly collectible knives.
OAL on this beauty is: 10.75\"
The Blade exhibits 6\" of cutting-edge
Handle is fine cocobolo with Turquoise and fiber and bronze spacers.
Knife has been used a little bit as seen by a few hairlines...but it\'s solid and wonderful and looks amazing in person!Truly a wonderful knife!
Comes in zippered pouch.
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About Dendritic Steel:
Dendritic Steel is a term first used by knifemaker David Boye to describe the cast 440c stainless steel he developed in 1981. This revolutionary blade technology has proven superior to most other cutlery alloys in both edge holding capability and ease of sharpening. The process used to produce it, investment casting, transforms the original steel into one infused with microscopic crystals which create tiny serrations along the blade edge. These micro-serrations enable the blade to stay sharp from 10 to 50 times longer than a conventional blade. It also has a better \"bite\" (the ability to grip and cut into slippery objects --a tomato, for example) than conventional steel blades. It cuts like a razor blade by microscopically sawing the object, thereby achieving a finer and faster cut.Boye\'s innovation was the first application of investment casting in modern times. Over the years Boye Dendritic Steel (TM) knives have been put through \"torture tests\" by Boye himself, as well as several knife periodicals, and the knives have always stood up to whatever stress they had to endure. For over 20 years Dendritic Steel has proven itself to be superior to most other varieties of blade steel in edge holding as well as sharpness.Dendritic Steel also looks different from other types of steel when it is etched. Etching causes the chrome caroffere crystals to appear on the surface of the steel, and this reveals each blade\'s uniquely crystallized pattern. Blades etched with designs have a distinctive multi-textured look to them--a smooth, shiny foreground, with a dramatic crystaline frosted patina in the background. It was these fern-like crystal patterns that inspired the name \"Dendritic\" (Greek for \"fern-like\").
