Buck is, ahem, serving up something a little bit different for the November Buck of the Month. They have released a 948, a hefty vegetable cleaver, a non-standard model done up in a limited edition prestige variant just in time for Thanksgiving.
Buck may be better known for their outdoors-centric folders and fixed blades, but they’ve cultivated a fairly sizeable kitchen knife lineup as well – another exhibit in an ongoing trend of enthusiast knife companies stepping into the culinary genre, delivering modern steels and materials to a genre that has been underserved in that department for quite some time. The 948 appears to be the bigger brother to the Buck 946 meat cleaver, currently the only cleaver kitchen knife in the company’s active lineup.
I don’t have a kitchen cleaver, and I have not missed having one. But this does look like it would be fun to use.
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Buck Heads into the Kitchen for November BotM
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