Level Up Custom Knives builds handmade kitchen and fixed blade knives in small batches, and the Ignis Nakiri shows exactly what the shop is about. The nakiri is the Japanese vegetable specialist, a flat-profile blade that meets the cutting board along its full length so every push cut finishes clean, with no rocking and no accordion-cut onions.
The Ignis runs a 7.5 inch blade at a thin 3mm stock, 12.5 inches overall, ground from AEB-L stainless, a steel prized in kitchen knives for taking a screaming fine edge, resharpening easily, and shrugging off the acids and moisture of daily prep work; our knife steel guide covers why it punches far above its price in cutlery. The handle wears distinctive Cow Killer micarta over a full 5 inch grip, covered in our knife handle materials guide, with the moisture resistance a working kitchen demands. Production is genuinely small, so what appears here is what exists, and new patterns land as the maker finishes them.