Well balanced
... is half cut: Based on this premise, designer Daniel Ronge and product developer Christian Lorentzen set out six years ago in search of the perfect kitchen knife. The result is the SK15 - a Santoku that not only looks good, but also impresses with its inner values. Together with MAGAZIN, the Danish manufacturer Veark has now launched a special black edition of the SK15. Designed in Denmark, produced in Solingen.
Text: Florian Siebeck
Knives must be one thing first and foremost: functional. But it doesn't hurt if they also look good. "The classics with a black handle and three rivets never convinced us," says Daniel Ronge. So the designer created a new type of kitchen knife that can easily keep up with the classics in terms of quality, but establishes a new archetype. Knives, says Ronge, are ultimately the most important tools in the kitchen. "Our aim was to create a piece that draws its beauty and character from its raw appearance," says Daniel Ronge. The first product from the company Veark, which he founded in Copenhagen in 2017 together with Christian Lorentzen, was therefore a knife made from a single piece of blade steel. The extension of the blade, the so-called tang, does not disappear into a wooden handle, but becomes an ergonomic handle itself.
"The open design allows users to place their thumb on the blade like a professional chef and just guide the knife with the handle," says Ronge. The counterweight of the metal blade allows better control for powerful and precise cuts. At 58 Rockwell, the series is also sharper than many other steel kitchen knives, usually 55 Rockwell. Veark knives are manufactured in Solingen, where the blades are ground and sharpened by hand. The unique texture of the handle on each knife is created using traditional drop forging techniques. "When the manufacturers showed us the first prototypes, they said: 'We'll grind that away'. And we said: 'Please don't!" The references to wrenches and other metal tools are part of the aesthetic of the SK15-DLC.
To further emphasize these design references in the MAGAZIN special edition, Veark has given the Santoku classic a wafer-thin, stable coating that actually comes from mechanical engineering. The amorphous carbon layer, also known as "Diamond Like Carbon", is actually wear protection for drills and gears, but also looks good on the SK15-DLC. It not only makes the surface more resistant to scratches, but also makes it clear what a knife is: a fully-fledged tool.
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