Landers Frary & Clark 10" Hogsplitter Cleaver Hand Forged Carbon Steel 1890s 1920s Pasta Tool from the sulfurous nascent earth 0003.cs.mix.mix from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago This is from the first generation of Wusthof knives to break into the American professional market in the 1970s displacing other knives that were dominant in the market such as various Sabatier brands 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 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