The Güde Damascus Steel Knife Offer
Güde offers in its range knives made of Damascus steel, which keep the millennia-old Damascus forging art alive. The production of the so-called wild Damascus goes through a process lasting up to 2 days. In this process, over 300 layers of a soft and at the same time elastic steel are combined with an extremely hard steel and manually forged into a blade of highest perfection. It requires another 50 manual steps until the Güde Damascus knife is completed.
The handle material of the Güde Damascus knives is made of an extremely hard and up to 1,500 years old desert ironwood. 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, which is also referred to as Damascene steel (derived from the name of the city of Damascus), is a multiple folded steel. It already gained historical significance in the early Middle Ages in the manufacture of swords. Swords had to withstand high loads at their time. They had to be easy to handle in combat and stay sharp for a long time. In addition, they naturally could not break or bend during their use. A hard steel allowed a blade that stayed 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. The multiple folding of the steel of different material hardnesses found the desired properties for the blade.