De Buyer created the FIBRE KARBON 1 (FK1) collection for the most demanding of professional chefs. The high tech handle, compression-molded in France with multiple layers of aerospace grade carbon fiber, is light and extremely strong, making it perfectly balanced and pleasant to hold. The razor sharp blades are very strong in the European tradition, and very sharp in the Japanese tradition – the perfect blend of both cutlery and culinary worlds. The handles are not just for decoration, but are a structural part of the very strong and perfectly balanced mono-bloc construction with full lenght tang, solid bolster and counter weighted tail. The CHEF'S KNIFE has a traditional chefs blade. The FK1 Chefs Knife is perfectly balanced at 350 grams. Its 22cm blade makes this the perfect heavy chopping knife.