Spåre X OB Gyuto 220mm Modern Wrought Aogami Super Core

What is Modern Wrought? I hear you say. Well for all you whisky drinkers out there, it’s like a solera.

Jerarmie “Jezz” Heywood of Oblivion Blades has been producing Modern Wrought for several years now. He produces the cladding by sourcing premium steels from used car parts, which he stacks and forge welds together with nickel. At the core of the multilayered billet, Jezz always uses a premium steel to ensures top cutting performance, which in this case is Aogami Super.

What makes this a solera? With each batch of Modern Wrought remnants of the previous batch are forged in, increasing the layer count exponentially with each batch. Because of this fact Modern Wrought has become an almost living thing and with so many generations produced the cladding contains layers numbering in the millions!

We imported several bars of Modern Wrought earlier this year and passed them on to some of Europe’s finest knife makers. With this blade we are starting to see the fruits of those efforts and Fredrik Spåre has certainly done an incredible job with the steel. This might not be the first time you have heard of Modern Wrought, but we believe it will be the first time you have seen it like this.

A subtle design featuring a polished brute de forge finish around the spine and a highly polished and lightly etched finish on the bevel. The result feels classic in style and yet still contemporary. Paired with an octagonal Bog Oak handle with birchbark spacer and brass bolster the complete package is a high-performance stunner that is as unique as it is beautiful.

Like all Fredrik Spåre knives fit and finish is of the highest standard. The knife features a classic santoku tip gyuto profile and a high-performance convex grind that is sure to be a pleasure on the cutting board. This is one of a handful of blades we have produced from this limited batch of steel. Sure to bring pleasure to whomever ends up owning it.