East meets west with this hand forged Damascus gyuto. The billet I made for this is 150+ layers of alternating 15n20 and 1095 steeps. I hand hammered the knife from this steel, forging a distal taper from the ricasso to both the tip and tail. This makes this knife a pretty serious workhorse, with a strong heel under a 1/8” thick spine that stretches out and tapers to 0 at the tip, allowing for quick but precise work. The handle is some beautiful locally harvested and stabilized curly black walnut. Brass and mosaic pins.