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Maestro Wu Gift Set
A Chef's Knife for chopping vegetables and a Meat Cleaver for butchering meat
Chef's Knife
Rounded bottom provides a rocking motion for slicing vegetables and chopping meats. A vegetable cleaver that handles like a chef's knife.
Chinese-Style Cleavers
The classic silhouette with a wide blade for fast chopping and picking up ingredients. This knife comes in two styles: a classic Chinese Vegetable Cleaver and a heavier Meat Cleaver
Maestro Wu Knives
About Maestro Wu
Maestro Wu has been turning "guns into ploughshares" for nearly a century. During the second world war, material shortages inspired them to scavenge artillery fired on Taiwan by China as a source of steel. At the time most people couldn't afford an all-steel knife, but if a customer brought in salvaged shell, the forge would make one for them for free.
Maestro Wu knives are still hand forged from artillery; millions of shells were fired on Kinmen island by China during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1958. Artillery steel is especially resilient and makes a blade resistant to chipping and rust.
These knives are prized by the Taiwanese disapora throughout the world for their high craft, balanced handling, and poetic symbolism.