Heritage Series knives are equally at home in the modern or traditional kitchen. The full tang blades, made from a single piece of high carbon stainless steel, are precision ground to provide exceptional strength, flexibility and lasting sharpness.
Each and every blade is individually heat treated and tempered to achieve the hardness required to hold a finely ground edge. Our state-of-the-art, digitally controlled grinding machines then prepare each blade blank to final geometry before being sharpened and honed entirely by hand for exceptional performance and edge retention.
The Heritage Series handles are shaped to fit perfectly in the hand, the endstop preventing the knife from accidentally slipping. Each handle scale is secured with three solid brass rivets and finished by hand in the same tradition as they have been for generations.
Sharpening Steel
Put simply, a honing steel is a rod of material that is considerably harder than the blade it is designed to sharpen. Sheffield Made steels are made with very high carbon steel which can be heat treated to obtain the hardness required. A good quality honing steel acts to realign microscopic kinks, curls and folds that appear on a blade edge during normal use.
They aren’t designed to remove material from the blade, but act to restructure the grind profile for better cutting performance and longer lasting sharpness.
- 25cm / 10" head
