The beautiful, tapered, hand-filling wa style handle not often seen in Don Nguyen's chef knives, this 178mm nakiri is a work-horse with excellent weight and balance for all-day vegetable chopping. The convex primary bevels are hand-sanded to a satin finish and this blade is quite thin behind the edge, standing a comfortable and versatile 48mm tall at the heel with polished spine and choil. The black linen micarta handle is wide at the back, tapering gently to an ivory paper micarta spacer and ferrule.