Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Fillet Knife 18 cm - CVM Knife Steel - Handle Scales Made of Wine Barrel Oak Wood

A filleting knife is for…? Well? Exactly, it's meant for filleting. Unlike a chef's knife, it has a narrower and thinner blade. With it, you can, for example, trim meat and fish, meaning remove skin and tendons. And then cut them into wafer-thin pieces, in other words, fillet.

The Alpha Barrel Oak filleting knife has a thin and narrow blade with a length of 18 cm made from stainless & hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. Of course, you can also use the filleting knife for many other cutting tasks.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the tip of the blade to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, acts as a counterbalance to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special mix of the steel and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the stainless blades with a hardness of about 58 HRC a special robustness and longevity.

The finely polished handle scales made from oak wood of over 80-year-old wine barrels, called staves, are embedded in the steel and triple-riveted. Due to the long aging process, the coarsely structured wood is extremely hard and almost indestructible. The Alpha Barrel Oak series was created in collaboration with star chef Harald Rüssel and his wife Ruth. Harald Rüssel's signature is laser-engraved on each blade.