Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a wooden wagon wheel spoke handle and a Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed on a Victorian wagon wheel.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife detail showing off the patterns of the Damascus steel and wagon wheel wrought iron cladding, photographed against a rugged background
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a wooden wagon wheel spoke handle and a Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed against a Victorian wagon wheel hub.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife closeup of its wooden wagon wheel spoke handle, photographed on the Victorian wagon wheel its materials came from.
Close-up of a the Wagon Wheel Chef knife highly patterned damascus steel clad in wrought iron on a weathered wagon wheel background.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a wooden wagon wheel spoke handle and a Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed on a Victorian wagon wheel hub.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a wooden wagon wheel spoke handle and a Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed on a Victorian wagon wheel.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a random patterned Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed on a Victorian wagon wheel.
Wagon Wheel Chef Knife with a wooden wagon wheel spoke handle and a shimmering Damascus blade clad in wagon wheel wrought iron, photographed on a Victorian wagon wheel.
Hand forged damascus steel blade, clad in historic wrought iron with a wooden wagon wheel handle on a wooden wagon wheel display stand resting on a an old wagon wheel. In the background is a pile of rustic sun-bleached wood.
Benjamin holding a large victorian wrought iron wagon wheel from the historic Opaki Racecourse.
Historical black and white photo of the Opaki Race Course building with text about the Masterton Opaki Jockey Club and racing history.
Photograph of three ladies at the Masterton Racing Club's meeting at the Opaki Race Course in 1920. A large crowd of race-goers is in the background.

Wagon Wheel Chef Knife

$2,000.00
$2,000.00

The materials for this chef's knife rested against the historic Opaki Racecourse stables for more than a century, untouched as motorised vehicles with wheels of alloy and tyres of rubber roared past and the seasons flashed by. Then, one fateful day Benjamin came along and everything changed...

He hand-forged the blade from layered 1084 & 15N20 Damascus steel clad in salvaged wagon wheel wrought iron, its fibrous grain etched to reveal Victorian blacksmith artistry.

The hardwood handle and custom display stand are shaped from the same weathered wagon spoke—history reborn for the modern kitchen.

Blade length: 190mm 
Overall length: 322mm 
Year: 2025
Artist: Benjamin Madden

 

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