Buckels Olive stainless steel

Buckels Olive – Breakfast or Snack Knife

The Windmühlenmesser Buckels is a breakfast or snack knife from Robert Herder in Solingen with an olive wood handle. Born from Germany's rural tradition, this knife, with its distinctive blade shape, has been produced unchanged by Windmühlenmesser for over 140 years according to the "Solingen thin-grind" principle.

The Buckels blade, also known as the traditional German table knife, displays its independent character through its unmistakable shape, shaped by its specific tasks: cutting and spreading. It is wide for good cutting control, sharp so that no other knife is needed even for hard sausage, and the round tip allows expensive items like butter to be spread thinly and sparingly. Its smooth thin-grind cuts bread and especially bread rolls without leaving unwanted clumps of crumbs in the middle. It does not need a serrated edge. The blade is made of stainless steel. Like all classic Windmühlenmesser, the Buckels has a beautiful, comfortable wooden handle, in this case, made of olive wood. A sharp all-rounder for the kitchen and the table.

Robert Herder – stainless blade and olive wood handle

The blade of the Buckels snack knife is made of stainless chrome-molybdenum-vanadium steel. This Windmühlenmesser is still finely and thinly ground today using the Solingen thin-grind method and "blue-glazed" by hand by true masters. A true rarity and one of the best blue-glazed knives from the Herder manufactory. You can sharpen this knife with a diamond honing steel or a sharpening stone.

The handle is handcrafted from olive wood, finely sanded by master craftsmen, freely shaped, polished, and oiled. With its history spanning a good 6,000 years, the olive tree is considered the king of all trees in the Mediterranean region. The wood of this Mediterranean tree is hard, beautifully vivid in its grain, and features a play of colors from light yellow to golden light brown. Due to its nature, the wood has a high oil content. For this reason, it is very water-resistant and is excellently suited as a handle material.

The wood is only oiled and not chemically sealed. This makes it food-safe and open-pored. After its first contact with water, it becomes slightly rougher and thus more slip-resistant. The olive wood handle is characterized by a warm feel, natural grip, and individual grain. Maintain the handle regularly with wood care oil, and it will give you joy for a long time. The knife is not dishwasher safe.

Windmühlenmesser Buckels – stainless

• Blade length 11.8 cm
• Blade made of stainless chrome-molybdenum-vanadium steel
• Handle material: olive wood
• Handle length 10.2 cm
• Total length 22 cm
• Not suitable for the dishwasher