Date Posted: 5 May 2021
Söliditi™ C5™ 15cm Usudeba Knife
C5 = Carbon steel × Cast × Cold forged × Corrugated × Chisel edge
Solidteknics Söliditi™ C5 was developed by Mark J. Henry to embody a lifetime of knife making knowledge and engineering expertise into the 'ultimate, no-compromise, purist's knife'. The radical friction-reducing corrugated blade needed a whole new patented method of knife manufacturing: investment cast with his custom carbon steel composition, then precisely closed-die cold-forged in one solid monobloc.
Söliditi™ C5 also had to have the ultimate purist's edge: the Japanese chisel edge. Legendary for many centuries for their far superior sharpness, but rarely used by Western cooks due to the complexity of sharpening. Mark J. Henry knew he had to eliminate this sharpening problem if Western cooks were to embrace this edge, so he also invented a new, radically simplified 'inversion' method of maintaining razor-sharp edges on chisel-edged knives using real Japanese water stones. And our sustainable bamboo board packaging flips over to become a chopping board.
How Did This Little Australian Engineering Team Achieve a World First?
Our founder and development engineer, Mark Henry, has been hand-making knives all his life and manufacturing knives his whole career. He founded Füri™ knives in 1996 while still finishing his engineering degree, taking the company to the USA in 2005 and selling it in 2008 when he was producing half a million knives a year.
After developing a new knife division for de Buyer of France, and launching Solidteknics, Mark didn't stop developing knives — working long and hard to find a way to achieve a whole new blade geometry and manufacturing method to overcome the old problem of 'sticking friction' in knife blades, and to demystify the ancient Japanese chisel edge sharpening.
After launching the world-first, patented, machine-wrought Solidteknics cookware in 2015, this is Mark's long-anticipated return to his first love in engineering: high-performance chef knives. The Söliditi™ knives and InversionEdge™ sharpening system are the ultimate syntheses of everything he has learned, and everything he loves, in knives.
This first numbered limited series, signed and hand-finished by Mark, was offered exclusively to the Solid Lovers Group — and these earliest editions will become the most cherished heirloom Solid knives of all in coming decades and centuries.
