{"product_id":"the-intruder-chef-256mm","title":"The Intruder Chef 256mm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe intruder, a symbol of the nobility of small things. But, we digress. The Intruder's (with a capital I) tale began with a question born of Dylan Ambrosini's upbringing and lifelong fascination with history: if your canvas is a knife, how do you build a cathedral?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat answer begins with two truths: that so much of history is architecture, and so much architecture is religious. It ends at the doorstep of a church carved into the mountainside of the small Italian village where he lived as a boy. One of the three debut knives, The Intruder Chef features three stacked windows cut through the blade's brute-de-forge face, textured to evoke that same mountainside stone where the story of this piece began. Every arch, on the windows and on the bolster alike, is gothic, with trefoils set into the inner curves sculpted from solid damascus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade is the same dense, 500-layer house-made damascus found in the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/eatingtools.com\/products\/crowned-walnut-chef-223mm\" title=\"Crowned Walnut Chef\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCrowned Walnut Chef\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, forged from 125Cr1 and 15N20 high-carbon alloys at Ambrosini's Chicago studio. The integral forged bolster emerges from the blade itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade runs 256mm \/ 10.1\" long, and stands 60mm tall at the heel, filling the hand with a confident presence at 324g \/ 11.4oz. It’s weighted but balanced, the center of mass settling a finger’s width ahead of the heel, with a touch of lateral flexibility through the forward half. From a 4.5mm wide spine above the choil, it tapers to 2.3mm at the midpoint and 1.7mm an inch from the tip, where the full-distal taper continues before finishing thinner than glass at a tip ideal for the most delicate slicing work. Throughout, tall, convex bevels taper to an especially thin, very sharp edge. In every way a blade meant to perform without compromise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe handle is mild steel inlaid with fine silver, its construction style shared with the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/eatingtools.com\/products\/ammonite-petty-chef-165mm\" title=\"Ammonite Petty Chef\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmmonite Petty Chef\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, though the texturing here is far more laborious. An under-texture is hammered divot by divot, then a brick pattern is worked over it with punches and scrapers Ambrosini made specifically for this piece, some of the gravers small enough to test his patience in the making. Each of the three windows within the blade were drilled first, then filed, then engraved entirely by hand, hammer and gravers worked inside a pitch bowl. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDown to the finest details, every embellishment within the bolster's arched windows is hand carved using traditional methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its cathedral form, this isn’t a religious piece, and Ambrosini isn’t a particularly religious person. The windows themselves are left empty. At the base of it all sits a fine, silver mouse, looking upward, imagining the path he will carve in his ascent, a figure outside the usual Christian canon and a poignant stand-in for the nobility of small things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dylan Ambrosini - Illinois","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54783122604307,"sku":"DAS-HCK3","price":4850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/1749\/8643\/files\/chef-gyuto-dylan-ambrosini-illinois-the-intruder-chef-256mm-1259803673.jpg?v=1792083912","url":"https:\/\/eatingtools.com\/products\/the-intruder-chef-256mm","provider":"Eatingtools","version":"1.0","type":"link"}