The Shun chef's knife series is one of the most extensive damask knife series in the world and is very popular with the cooking elite and ambitious hobby cooks. Shun professional chef's knives are made of a specially developed, stainless damascus steel with 32 layers. The inner layer consists of V-Gold-10 steel. This steel is extremely corrosion-resistant, extremely hard (61±1 HRC, 1.0% carbon, 1.5% cobalt) and keeps the blade permanently sharp, if cared for properly. The convex sharpening of the blade as well as the manual honing of each Shun knife results in an incomparable sharpness, which allows the knife to glide like no other even through the most difficult cutting material. This sharpness, coupled with the balanced weight of the knives, allows fatigue-free working.