9 Inch Japanese Kiritsuke Chef Knife, Hand Forged High Carbon Steel Gyuto Kitchen Knife for Meat Fish Vegetables, Professional Cooking Knife with Olive Wood Octagonal Handle & Gift Box

This is a very good and razor sharp knife for very little money.

The knife looks beautiful and feels nice- if a little front heavy. No full tang which puts the balance point right about where the logo on the knife is. Fine for me since I use a pinch grip but, if you aren't used to it, the balance could make for an uncomfortable experience. I already had an 8in kiritsuke knife which has better balance but, this 9in one is really nice by comparison because the slightly longer blade lets you make some nice long and even cuts on meats, fish, or… other long foods… eggplants. It had a nice edge out of the box - nice but not perfect. Tomato test passed. Paper test passed. It will do the job well but if you’re a stickler, go ahead and touch up the cutting edge before trying to shave a kiwi (the fruit not the bird). I am a home chef and I have no idea what a professional chef’s knife is supposed to feel like but this one feels good to me. The octagonal grip is octually super comfortable and gives a nice grip texture. Because of the blade shape, the Japanese kiritsuke-style knife makes flat cuts way easier (like julienne for example) without sacrificing any of the functionality that you may be used to from a western chef knife (or gyuto). Also, I’d say it’s pretty durable. I was concerned that some of the reviews said that it wouldn’t hold up so… I tortured it a little bit. I didn’t go full “Mythbusters” on it or anything but I'm pretty confident that you would have to put in real effort to break this knife- even without a full tang. I mean I really beat the devil out of this thing on my cutting board to see what kind of a battering it would endure and, to my delight, it went right along like nothing happened. I really don’t know what some of these reviewers are doing to their kitchen knives to give it a low rating based on durability, but I really let this thing have it - far more punishment than it would ever reasonably receive in a cooking environment. There’s nothing you can do to this knife in your kitchen that’s going to break it… I mean, unless a ninja shows up at your house… Best of luck if that happens. Don’t sword fight with this knife. You’ll probably lose. TL;DR - I like the Ink Plum kiritsuke knife, and I recommend it. It’s tough, beautiful, and inexpensive. It’s everything you could ask for at this price point.

Very sharp, good price, I am replacing my old chef knive with this one, so far is great

Lost the sharpen after a few uses.

Very beautiful

Such a good quality knife. Make sure to buy the stone a well. This knife will last a lifetime

9 Inch Kitchen Kiritsuke Chef Knife: $49.99 at the time of review I’m a sucker for a good knife. There’s just something about a beautiful, functional kitchen tool like a knife that really appeals to me. When beauty, design, and usability all combine I’m willing to pay a lot of money (sadly, I find that most knives you can only have two of the three). This knife from Ink plums looked like it might check off all of those boxes so I gave it a shot. *What I liked*: The presentation of this knife is gorgeous. It’s a fabulous retail package with a beautiful folding box that is sealed by magnets in the lid. The knife itself continues the theme of beauty. The oiled olivewood handle is a wonderful counterpoint to the Kiritsuke blade, which on its own is artful thanks to the sandwiched steel blade. This would make a great gift to someone who appreciates beautiful kitchen tools. *What I didn't like*: Unfortunately there are a couple of issues that I have with the blade. The problem I have is the fact that the blade is *not* full-tang and that is immediately noticeable in the way it handles (it is *very* front-heavy in the blade). If you’re not familiar, the tang is the portion of metal that comes off of the back of the blade and continues on into the handle. A full-tang blade means that the metal by which the handle is affixed to the blade extends all the way to the end of the handle. I personally consider it a necessity, as not only are full-tang blades much less likely to experience issues with the handle detaching, but the added weight of the metal balances the blade better and makes it feel better in the hand and when in use. Tang is a weird place to skimp on a blade. The other issue I have is that the factory edge isn’t as good as I expected. This one is minor (to me, at least) because anybody with a sharpening stone can fix it. But if you don’t know how, you’ll need to pay someone to sharpen this. *The Bottom Line:* Between the lack of a full tang and the factory edge being sharp but not sharp enough, this blade was a bit of a letdown for me. At a $50 price point for a single knife, I expected more. That said, the presentation is just excellent, and for someone who it less concerned about knife-nerd stuff, this would make a great gift. So it still ends up at four stars out of five from me. I don’t think I’d order it over again for myself though for the above mentioned reasons (mostly the tang issue).

Muy bueno. Me ha salido de buena calidad el filo dura . También es de cuidarlo y no mojar mucho el mango porque es madera y se puede dañar facil

the knife is so awesome 👌 👏 👍

Good sharpness and presentation.

The fit and finish of this knife looks great. I also like the fit in my XL Men's glove size hands. It came sharp but with the angles of the final sharpening quite a "heavy" angle. So it didn't want to do the light drag cut test through a tomato. Off to the water stones for a 20 minute stretch to get the last part of the edge to more of a long curved "pointy seed" like shape. I've been using it daily since it came in about two weeks ago and the initial sharpening is still keen as the first use. I'm using it for some meat cutting but so far nothing with bones. I've got a less shaped knife for dealing with that sort of stuff. I thought the peened upper spine finish would be annoying as at first glance it was fairly coarse. But it hasn't been an issue so far. And it's nothing a brush could not deal with anyway. Very happy with the purchase so far but one star off due to the nature of the final factory sharpening not being the slender "veggie" sort of edge that was promised.