"The blade seems to glide through items without pressure, which makes intricate and fine cutting simple and a pleasure to do."

For the small, precise work a big blade is clumsy at: peeling apples, coring strawberries, trimming fat, deveining shrimp, slicing a single clove of garlic. Short enough to control with your fingertips and sharp enough that you're never pressing. It's built a little more substantially than most paring knives, with the same full tang, hammered blade, and riveted rosewood handles as the full-size knives, so nothing about it feels like an afterthought.

Blade length: 3.5"
Knife length: 8.5"
Weight: 200g