Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0150
G-10 67 Layer Damascus Chef
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Waves of dark water seem to freeze along the sides of this folded iron cleaver of the hearth. A strong, dark hilt holds the rippling metal fast, offering balance to the hand that carves the evening roast. Though meant for the table, its layered steel remembers the fierce heat of the forge that gave it form.
About this piece
G-10 67 Layer Damascus Chef is a kitchen knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of kitchen knives. It measures 7.5in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 67 Layer Damascus Steel Blade, Stainless Steel Guard. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: G-10 (Black). The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“Not every edge is drawn in anger. Some are drawn at the board.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 7.5 inches
- Form
- kitchen
- Steel
- 67 Layer Damascus Steel Blade, Stainless Steel Guard
- Fittings
- G-10 (Black)
$139.99
The Muster — swear $160.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the board — geometry tuned for food, not for war.
The lineage of its steel — 67 Layer Damascus Steel Blade, Stainless Steel Guard
Pattern-welded steel. Layers of differing steel forge-welded and folded, then etched so the weld lines show. The pattern is real structure, not print — and it wants oil, because the etch leaves the surface hungry.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The cook
One who wants the same honest steel at the counter that the house hangs on the wall.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. G-10 67 Layer Damascus Chef is 7.5″ of 67 layer damascus steel blade, stainless steel guard, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 581 hertz — keen and short, warm. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
The kitchen blade is the domesticated cousin of everything else in this castle. It descends from the same forge and admits it only by the shape of its spine.
02The Making
Hardened steel — 67 Layer Damascus Steel Blade, Stainless Steel Guard. This is the modern end of the trade: alloys that hold an edge far past the point where old steel gives up, at the cost of being stubborn on the stone. Sharpen it rarely, sharpen it properly.
03The Carry
At 7.5 inches this is the working length — long enough to matter, short enough to live on a hip without argument. The great majority of blades ever carried by anyone fell inside this span.
04The Reckoning
Steel keeps no loyalty. It does what the arm does. The ledger ends where your part of it begins.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of G-10 67 Layer Damascus Chef
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The press
Black G10 Full Tang HuntererSame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$92.99the pair — $232.98
The line
Green/Black Rubberized Machete with SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$79.99the pair — $219.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Kitchen Steel →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- Carbon or Stainless: Which Steel Should You Actually BuyThe oldest quarrel in the trade, settled plainly.
- Damascus Steel Explained: Real vs Fake, and Is It Good?The pattern is real. The legend is mostly not.
- Keeping an Edge: Sharpening, Stropping and StorageHow to keep steel keen without ruining it — the whole discipline in one reading.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- Rust, patina and oilKeeping carbon steel alive, and the difference between stain and rot.
- Geometry, balance and harmonicsWhy two blades of the same weight feel nothing alike in the hand.
G-10 67 Layer Damascus Chef
$139.99