Every year you want to give something to the now grown-up children because it's their birthday.
The wish is a chef's knife from the 1922 series by the Solingen-based manufacturer Herder, we have had excellent experience with such windmill knives.
So ordered at the beginning of December last year, and nothing has come since then.
The dealer put off several times with the expression of deep regret that the knife is currently not available, the customer should be patient for a few more months.
No problem, the son has another birthday next year.
Only it will be celebrated again without the longed-for gift.
A call to the manufacturer, who actually lives from selling knives, brings the light: The forged blade of this special series is processed by hand with the Kesselschen milled grind, a special form of Solingen thin grind, and peened, i.e. finely polished, on the carbon steel rust can then not settle so well. The milled blades have a stable back with a slightly convex profile, but an extremely thin and sharp edge. Here it comes: machines can't do what subliminally pleases us, because people are needed after all.
But the only expert who still masters the milling process was ill for a long time.
Orders have been processed for a few years now.
Similar specialists were wanted in ancient Japan, they did nothing but polish the blades of katanas and wakizashis.
Young people from Solingen, while we are expected to wait for the ordered knife until mid-2022, an interesting apprenticeship is waiting for you.
What are you waiting for?