As I lay around all summer, unable to work, I dreamed about making a simple performance oriented chefs knife combining my favorite performance steel with one of my favorite handle combos. Enter the Performance Series: thin, mono-steel chef knives with a sleek and durable stone-washed finish and food-releasing, weight-shedding, C-grind (right handed users). Comfortable rounded spine. Cross between a show pony and a work horse. Features sycamore that I was processing in June when I clipped my hand on the bandsaw, there isn’t much of this I’ve turned into handle material yet as the injury and recovery took a few months!

• size: 8” blade / 13” overall / 2” heel

• weight: 140 grams

• blade: 26C3 high carbon steel, C-grind

• handle: bocote, stabilized blue smoke sycamore, bronze

4 available, slight variations in figure of handle