Forschner Large Chef Becomes A Santoku

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Let me start by saying that I was cooking in a restaurante at age 14...started washing dishes and one night when one of the fry cooks quit I was instantly promoted...cooked all through high school and after graduation went into the Coast Guard where I eventually became a Subsistence Specialist...5 years of cooking on ships. Later after discharge I worked for a while in a couple local restaurantes, and did some function work for a freind, then eventually left the trade. Over these years I had amassed a decent set of cutlery.
Fast forward twenty some years and one day I come upon my old faithfull...this tool had seen lots of food parted by it's edge...but what to do with it? Way too large for my kitchen, but I still longed to use it once again...
Along comes Mr Dremel!!! I wrapped the blade in a cold wet towel and tentatively made my score line...working slowly and steadily, constantly checking for heat the tip was parted. Then some work with my glass grinder...a water cooled diomond bit did it's part at smoothing the back side out...then sandpaper up through the grits.
It's a great slicer,dicer, and the width of it is only beaten by my dicing cleaver for scooping and transfer duties...
Hope you like it, and thanx for looking...


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Well done; I have a very large Forschner here, that I thought about doing this with. I bought it years ago to replace another kitchen knife I damaged, and we realized it's just too long for the kitchen.

My preference is to keep the blade a little longer, but overall, I love what you did. :thumbup:

~Chris
 
Thanx photo and orka...the cutting edge is 7-3/4 inches...plenty for my uses. I could still see using it at present length for production work.
 
I like it a lot. Keeps much of the functionality of the old faithful, but is a very usable length. Some santokus do not have enough blade width to keep your knuckles off the chopping board or for scooping up stuff. Yours is cool.
 
Thanx Geode, one of the things I really liked about this knife was the height of the handle...the current length gives excellent controle for paper thin slicing and juliene cuts.
also these came with a rather large handle which fit my hand better than most knives...(I have large hands).
 
cool I like that idea for a big old cutter I have with a big chip 1/3 from the tip - this may be my next project!
 
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