GÜDE KNIVES Güde traditional manufacture in Solingen, inventor of the serrated edge for bread knives. Güde knives are forged from one piece of Solingen steel and finished and ground by hand, hardness 56 HRC. Handles made from old oak barrels, olive wood or POM. Special series hand-forged Damascus, 300 layers of non-corrosive Damascus, hardness 61 HRC, handles made of desert ironwood (petrified wood). Güde bread knife In collaboration with star chef Harald Rüssel, whose gourmet restaurant and hotel Landhaus St. Urban is located in a side valley of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine-growing region, Güde has created this series - not only - for wine lovers and cooking enthusiasts. The blades are hand-forged and consist of one piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. Further processing takes place in over 40 manual operations. The handle scales are made of up to 500 years old and selected olive wood, which is very hard, weatherproof, strongly grained and therefore particularly elegant. The blade is stainless, ice-hardened and hand-sharpened - the handle is not dishwasher safe. The Güde bread knife convinces with its excellent cutting power. With the special Güde serrated edge of the Güde bread knife, bread is cut into beautiful slices. Features Molybdenum-vanadium steel Hand-forged Stainless olive wood handle serrated handle not dishwasher safe Manufacture in over 40 steps.