– Kanngou 210mm Japanese Chef Knife, Japan AUS-8 Alloy Steel Kitchen Knife with Full-Tang Black Pakkawood Handle, 8.27 Inch Gyuto Chefs Knives with Premium Gift Box (Classic Series)

Good knife

Great gift

I used it once to cut some semi frozen meat, it broke.

Knife was great, very sharp and in a very nice package. However, after couple of uses and cleanings (by hand) it started to rust. The blade also got tiny bends from I don’t know what even, I didn’t cut anything more then a tomato and a piece of meat with it. Unfortunately cannot return since the package is gone.

Snapped at the neck after ~three months. Is there no way to submit pictures? So the blade is split in two types of metal - the main thick section is made of some brittle alloy - and the "thin" blade section seems to be the "japanese" high strength steel. A good con. Sad

Shattered slicing fish fillet

The knife has a crack in the blade

awesome chef knife ...

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Das Messer gefällt gut, macht einen soliden Eindruck, sehr scharf.

Fantastic knife that’s perfectly well balanced and is exactly has advertised

This is a very well made knife, it is well balanced.

Handle is poorly made where the wood is not flush with the metal. The edges are even sharp enough to cut your skin. Second, i highly doubt the HRC written in the details since the steel is incredibly soft and hard to sharpen even with a diamond sharpening stone and shapton korumaku. The apex of the edge rolls incredibly easily. However, the edge geometry is decent.