Henckels

If you are referring to the "Twin" symbol, it is reserved for the company's high-end knives and is actually considered one of the oldest trademarks in the world.
 
I know what you are talking about, the little chess board thing where some of the squares are filled in. I would like to know has well, I just figured they helped differentiate the blades in the factory during manufacture.
 
Okay, it's on high end knives. But what is its story, why did they choose it to begin with.

Many old symbols have a meaning. Red, white, blue, ... number of stars ... that sorta thing.

But then again, maybe it was chosen because no one else had it.
 
I dont know what they mean, However, the chess broad pattern is ,also, on all their knifes. WHY?
 
I never knew for sure, but I did work with them every day. I noticed that not all of the patterns were the same. I just assumed it was some way for them to ID what batch a particular knife was from, or what year or something. You know, so if it turns out a batch from March of 2002 suffered really poor heattreats and ended up super brittle, they would have a means of finding knives from that batch and removing them.

But you know, I'm just guessing.
 
We sell those Zwilling J.A. Henckels,and the 'chessboard' is indeed to identify what year and what month they were made.
Be aware though that Zwilling is not producing any knives anymore in Solingen, Germany.
Almost everything they sell is made in China nowadays, and their Cermax powdersteel line is made in Japan.:rolleyes:
 
Thanks everyone for their thoughts and comments. I have an older henckels made in solingen Germany. It is very dull now.
 
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