This thinner blade allows one to slice finer pieces of meat from the roast. Elegant-looking plates of food made easy. They're thick and hefty, so solid you know they can handle just about anything. And yet they have a certain grace, shapes so precisely engineered that the knives practically work themselves. Wusthof Classics are as traditional as European knives come. They feature thick bolsters with complete finger guards, triple-riveted full-tang handles, and multi-functional blade surfaces designed cleave, crush, and pound as efficiently as they cut. About Wusthof Knives Knife Makers to the World Since 1814, Wusthof is a true classic in the culinary world. Wusthof knives are forged from single blanks of X50CrMoVa15 surgical stainless steel, finished through a 38-step process, and thoroughly inspected at every stage to ensure each knife is flawless.