
The Güde Damascus Steel Knife Offer
Güde offers knives made of Damascus steel in its range, keeping the millennia-old art of Damascus forging alive. The production of the so-called wild Damascus undergoes a process lasting up to 2 days. In this process, over 300 layers of a soft yet elastic steel are combined with an extremely hard steel and manually forged into a blade of the highest perfection. It takes an additional 50 manual steps to complete the Güde Damascus knife.
The handle material of the Güde Damascus knives is made from extremely hard desert ironwood, which is up to 1,500 years old. Both the desert ironwood and the non-stainless blade must only be cleaned by hand. The Güde Damascus steel knives should never see the inside of a dishwasher.
What is a Damascus Steel Knife?
Damascus steel, also known as Damascene steel (derived from the name of the city Damascus), is a repeatedly folded steel. It gained historical significance in the early Middle Ages in the manufacture of swords. Swords at that time had to withstand high stresses. They had to be easy to handle in battle and remain sharp for a long time. Additionally, they naturally could not break or bend during use. A hard steel allowed for a blade that remained sharp for a very long time and did not bend, but the hard steel also broke relatively easily. A soft steel, on the other hand, did not break but also did not stay sharp for long and bent easily.
Therefore, a material was sought that combined all the properties of soft and hard steel. By repeatedly folding the steel of different material hardnesses, the desired properties for the blade were achieved.