SAMCOOK Chef's Knife, 8 Inch Damascus Profession 67-Layer VG10 High Carbon Stainless Steel Kitchen Knife, with Ergonomic Non-slip Wood Grain Handle and Luxury Gift Box

Wow so sharp very good

Low quality materials

Excellent value. A very sharp, out of the box ready to use knife. Wash it and cut. Cheese can sometimes be a sticky cut but this knife cuts and no sticking cheese. The weight of the knife makes cutting a breeze. My wife is impressed with this knife and believe me, if my wife is impressed, yours will be too. A beautiful, great valued and sharp knife with a handle your hand seems to grip to while cutting. Very happy with it.

Perfect

Pros: 1. Great blade shape, length, and height 2. Authentic eastern style handle with authentic blade weight balance (Black Sandalwood handle) 3. Great value for the price Cons: 1. It came somewhat dull, which required some after market sharpening (easy to fix) 2. I'm not a huge fan of the mirror finish (cosmetic) 3. The damascus etching seems a bit fake (cosmetic) With a tiny bit of sharpening this knife performs extremely well. Even though it's made in China, I would recommend this knife to anyone looking to get into using Japanese style knives and learning how to sharpen their own knives. It's insane (good) value for the price you pay. It's a good knife for anyone to learn on or use for everyday cooking and it's very affordable to replace if it was ever somehow stolen or broken beyond repair. --- I don't know if it's actually VG-10, it doesn't have the same feel as my other VG-10 knives exactly but this knife does perform very well. This knife is extremely good at this price point. I bought one with an octagonal handle (Black Sandalwood) since it's the only one that seemed like a half-tang knife. The knife is balanced very well. The one I bought is blade-weighted meaning that the fulcrum is slightly more to the blade end. This is very good for when you use a pinch-grip with your thumb and finger on the sides of the blade and this is exactly the type of balance I would expect from a blade of this design. In comparison, most of the "Japanese" budget knives I've seen on amazon that look nice don't have the same balance as this one. The profile and shape of the knife is great. It's got a good height to it which I like a lot since my fingers are a bit long and have trouble fitting comfortably on more shallow knives. Sharpness The blade was not very sharp out of the box, to my standards. To be clear I like my knives to be hair shaving razor sharp. Out of the box this knife bounced off of tomato skin, meaning that it wasn't able to cut through tomatoes super easily. To fix this I gave it a few passes on my 1,000 and 5,000 grit whetstones and a leather strop. It's now hair shaving razor sharp and performs extremely well, even when compared to my higher end knives in the $100-300 price range.

Faça boa

Franchement, ce couteau est une pure merveille ! Son design est vraiment top, je suis super fan. En plus, la qualité est là, ça se sent direct quand on le prend en main. Un achat que je ne regrette pas du tout. Je recommande vivement !