Lignum 3 – HRC 60 Carbon

Lignum 3 – Santoku – Windmühlenmesser Robert Herder

The Herder Lignum 3 is a Santoku from Windmühlenmesser with a plum wood handle and a non-stainless HRC 60 carbon blade. This all-purpose knife is well-balanced, fits wonderfully in the hand, and is perfectly suited for all cutting tasks in the kitchen, filleting meat, portioning fish, and slicing vegetables. You can buy the Lignum 3 online here.

Herder Lignum 3 – Santoku

With this knife, the knife manufacturer Robert Herder has used a lot of expertise to develop a European chef's knife from an originally Japanese form: the Herder Lignum 3. This universal kitchen knife is ideal for preparing fish, meat, and vegetables.

The blade of this knife is made of exceptionally high-quality, non-stainless steel with a minimum of 1% carbon content. It is ground very finely and thinly using the "Solingen thin grind" (Solinger Dünnschliff), a technique that only a few knife grinders in Solingen still master, and is "blue-polished" (blaugepließtet) by hand. This allows Windmühlenmesser to achieve a much higher hardness of 60 HRC (Rockwell hardness) for this knife, compared to approx. 57/58 HRC for common carbon steel knives. Due to the high carbon content, a slight discoloration of the blade, which appears like a blue veil, may occur. This is a typical characteristic of this special material and not a reason for a complaint.

The handle is made of steamed plum wood. It is densely grown, which gives it hardness, and features a beautiful, nuanced grain in a color spectrum from light brown to dark brown. The handles of the Herder Lignum 3 are handcrafted, riveted to the knife tang, and finely ground, polished, and oiled by master craftsmen. To enjoy your Lignum 3 for as long as possible, it is best to regularly treat the handle with wood oil.

The Herder Lignum 3 is not suitable for cleaning in a dishwasher.

You can sharpen this knife with a diamond honing steel or a sharpening stone.

Blade length – approx. 168 mm – Total length – approx. 295 mm