Original price: $420 Asking price: $200 Steel: CPM S35VN Hardness: 58-60 HRC Handle: Aerospace grade G-10 Retired chef here, who doesn’t need such a serious knife for home cooking. If you are looking for a very high quality knife (or just curious what a $420 knife can do for you at less than half the price) this one can do it all from butchering to fine knife work with amazing edge retention. When I was cooking I obsessed over sharpening and I’ve painstakingly thinned the knife down to act like a laser and will mince through fat and sinew like butter. There’s also a healthy amount of weight behind the edge to make mincing herbs effortless and the distal taper gives you everything you could ask for. Comes with a leather sheath, and any details I missed can be found on their website I’ve posted below https://www.newwestknifeworks.com/products/g-fusion-9-chef-knife?variant=15392733855831