{"product_id":"shear-damascus-chef-276mm","title":"Shear Damascus Chef 276mm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mosaic damascus on this blade tells its own story of movement: skewed hard toward the tip and heel, drawn tight and condensed through the bolster, and settling into a striking metallic checkerboard through the center. It's as elegant a demonstration as you'll find of what Nick does best, holding a steel pattern taut between exacting control and the pattern's own organic drift under heat and hammer. That tension between order and distortion is where the name comes from: shear is the literal mechanical force that pulls a grid out of alignment, and here you can watch it happen across the length of one blade, tightening, loosening, and re-aligning as it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a big knife, its compound \"S-grind\" symmetrical bevel geometry stays tough through the heel while picking up a slight, purposeful flex in the forward stretch. The distal taper holds steady from heel to tip, and the result is a refined workhorse: slim enough behind the edge for precision, tough enough for anything and everything the board throws at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 276mm, the blade runs 4.2mm thick at the choil, down to 2.8mm at the midpoint and 1.5mm by the tip, with a full 64mm of height at the heel for head-turning presence over the cutting board. Overall length comes in at 418mm, and at 11oz, it carries its size without feeling like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade itself is forged by hand at Nick's Vermont studio from his homemade tiled mosaic high-carbon damascus, built from 1095 and 15n20 alloys. The handle pairs maple burl with black micarta and a pearlescent resin inlay, a small round counterpoint to all that angular movement in the steel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Anger - Vermont","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54060463948051,"sku":"NAG-HCK24","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/1749\/8643\/files\/chef-gyuto-nick-anger-vermont-shear-damascus-chef-276mm-1259019558.jpg?v=1790026270","url":"https:\/\/eatingtools.com\/products\/shear-damascus-chef-276mm","provider":"Eatingtools","version":"1.0","type":"link"}