Vosteed Morgan Chef's Knife 8" When Tesla meets Wild West
The Professional Chef Knife for Everyone. Making Your Kitchen Workhorse with Best-in-Class Materials and Time-Honored Methods.
Vosteed Morgan Chef's Knife: A professional chef's knife for everyone An earnestly-made chef's knife that is worth your trust.We are two engineers with more than a decade of combined experience in making outdoor knives. Our knives are used and trusted by outdoor adventurers, knife enthusiasts, and everyday working people.
Morgan is the American workhorse known for being robust and powerful, as well as easy to keep. I want this knife to be the Morgan workhorse of your kitchen. It has incredible out-of-box sharpness, dedicatedly balanced weight distribution, and well-tuned ergonomics. On top of that, your Morgan chef's knife features a sleek and modern design.
At its core, steel is the foundation of any chef's knife. Two aspects determine the quality of the steel: composition and heat treatment. To achieve the best balance of value and performance, the 8-inch (205 mm) Morgan chef's knife uses 9cr18MoV steel. In terms of the composition, the combination of its 0.95% Carbon and 1.3% Molybdenum
allows the Morgan knife to achieve high hardness (60 HRC) without becoming brittle; the 0.6% Nickel and 0.04% Phosphorus allows the knife to be both robust and resilience, and greatly reduce chipping, the 18% Chromium makes the knife extremely corrosion-resistant, which makes the knife easy-to-maintain; on top of that, the powerful addition of 0.12% Vanadium will not only greatly increase the yield and tensile strength but also the hardness and wear resistance of the blade.
All these mean that your Morgan blade can take a very sharp edge and retain it for a long time, your knife will also have extremely good chipping and rust resistance. With proper care, the cutting edge on your Morgan chef's knife will not only last longer but also be easy to maintain.
Ask any professional knifemaker about how to make the steel better, they will all tell you that the secret is in the heat treatment process. Just like delicious dishes are made with quality ingredients and dedicated cooking processes. Excellent chef knives also need good steel and a dedicated heat-treatment process.
We only do strictly controlled heat treatment processes of annealing, stress relieving, austenitizing, quenching, and tempering, we will make sure the steel on your Morgan chef's knife is stronger, tougher, as well as more resilient than most in-class chef knives on the market.
After heat-treated and hardened to 59-60 HRC, we do a two-stage sharpening process. We use the sharpening angles on traditional Japanese chef knives, and your Morgan chef's knife will have a 12-degree angle on one side and an 18-degree angle on the other side. While our devoted process takes longer to finish, the edge on your knife will be sharper and more durable than on other chef knives. In addition, we only use a low-speed sharpening technique so that the heat from the sharpening process can have enough time to be dissipated. Everything we do is to make sure that your Morgan chef's knife can have a durable razor-sharp edge.
The knife is one of the oldest tools ever made (the Oldowan knife is more than 2 million years old). For the most part, chef knives have almost remained unchanged for centuries. As a follower of the Bauhaus art movement, I firmly believe that by unifying the principles of utilitarian products with individual artistic vision, we can infuse our traditional everyday objects with the spirit of modern aesthetics. By combining traditional knife-making principles and contemporary aesthetics, this Morgan knife will make your cooking task easier and shining new light in your kitchen.
Artistically speaking, the design of the Morgan knife is inspired by the Early Modern style. On one hand, the knife has utilized geometrical compositions such as the combinational of sleek lines, smooth surfaces, and intricate facets; it also utilized the textural quality of the G10 materials to create a smooth yet grippy handle feels. On the other hand, the sanmai making process has created both distinctive wavy forging patterns and unique tiger stripes blade surfaces. The juxtaposition between the geometrical and organic designs is truly one-of-its-kind.
Functional-wise, after numerous prototyping and tests, the Morgan knife has adopted the shape of traditional Japanese Kiritsuke, which is known as the Japanese master chef’s knife. This time-honored blade shape is known for its versatility and functionality. Your Morgan chef's knife has a combined flat and sliding edge with a rounded belly, which makes it great for chopping, slicing, dicing, and rocking cut. It is perfect chef knives for cooks of all kinds, from master chefs to aspiring cooks.
I balanced the Morgan chef's knife right at the surface of the pinch point, therefore whenever you pick up the knife, you will have intuitive control over the knife. In addition, by sculpting a contoured curve at the handle belly, your middle, ring, and small finger will have natural and secured control over the knife.
This fine-tuned ergonomics does not only makes it safer for you to use the knife but also significantly reduces user fatigue by letting your finger comfortably wrap around the handle. The forged pommel at the end of the handle provides an extra safety measure against slipping. This thoughtfully designed and weighted pommel will also make it less likely for the blade tip to dive downwards in an accident.
Last by not least, I have used a special surface treatment process to make the G10 resin laminate handle. This material is not only extra durable, but it can also be hand washed with soap and water. More importantly, when you inspect it closely, you can notice that there are small hexagon-shaped pockets on the surface, which makes the knife grippy and secure when your hand is wet.
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