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The XINZUO 8.5 inch Japanese Kiritsuke chef knife looks quite nice. It is well-made, too. It is very sharp. It is also lighter than similar knifes. It needs to be handled very carefully. It also comes with a wooden sheath with magnet inside.The knife is claimed to be real Damascus steel which I have no way to verify. Priced at $113.99, which is a bit pricey. Personally, I would prefer a heavier knife, and there are similar designs available for a better price.

This knife is absolutely beautiful and works wonders as well. I made a beautiful gift.

There's no texture watsoever on the blade from this japanese knife made in china. The blade is too smooth.

This is a Chinese copy rather than an original Japanese knife, but it's attractive, and pretty sharp. It's also somewhat cheaper than a genuine hand forged professional Japanese chef knife, of which I'm lucky enough to own a selection. If you want the finest knife, invest in an original, but be prepared to pay at least three or four times as much for it.This style of wood and horn handle is typical of Japanese chefs knives, and the octagonal cross section provides superb grip and control. The knife tang is firmly fixed in the handle and although it's not full tang like most Western cooks knives, this is not intended for heavy chopping You can think of this as a precision instrument - a thin surgeons scalpel that relies on sharpness, rather than a thick and heavy meat cleaver that relies on weight and brute force. I like using this knife, and I enjoy the lightness and the finesse of working with it.The Damascus on my sample is genuine, with real layers of steel. As always, you'll need to keep this honed, to preserve the edge. Once you ding or nick the cutting edge you MUST hone that out, otherwise the blunted part will become worse, and performance will quickly be lost. Kept properly sharp, this will slice a tomato paper thin with no effort at all.

Work in a restaurant as a chef de partie so I just buy knives I think look nice and such.The wooden handle on this knife is incredible very nice grip doesn't slip and I can hold firm my favourite part about the knife is the wooden sheath with the magnet inside it doesn't fall out even when I rigoursly shake it off and perfectly fits the knife.Don't often find knives that come with a sheath and most of the time the sheath is cheap or not really effective.