Ed Wusthof Dreizack 11" Chef Knife Carbon Steel Ebony Solingen 1920 50s Mushrooms Henckels 213 12” flexible slicer made 0003.cs.mix.mix Henckels 213 12” flexible slicer made in the post war era of solid wood handled hand ground after initial drop forging (no secondary hand forging on this era) with nickel (aluminum comes later) riveted walnut handle while maintaining the flavor and integrity of tradition This knife pre dates Wusthof's model of automation replacing hand work in the Marshal Plan era re tooling of post WW2 Solingen 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