Carl Mertens Country 6″ Cleaver

Carl Mertens Country 6" Cleaver Over a million years ago, the homo erectus species were using sharp and thin stones like hand axes, which archaeologists often refer to as cleavers. Those stone cleavers evolved like their users, and eventually became known as the rectangular kitchen knives we use today. Although we aren't using stones to cut through the animals we hunt, we use cleavers to cut through thin or soft bones, like when cutting up a chicken. The Carl Mertens Country 6" Cleaver is a high quality knife made from some of the finest knife makers in the world. Handmade in Germany, the Carl Mertens country line is made with quality and durability in mind. The Country Line In more than 40 operations - from forging to hardening, grinding and mounting - the traditionally hand-forged quality knives of the Country line are produced. Each blade is hot forged from a single piece of chrome-molybdenum-vanadium steel and then hardened to approximately 58° Rockwell hardness. Experienced knife