Chinese Nakkiri

[Peter]

Recently a Chinese Im- and Export store has opened in my town and as I accidently saw it I had to go in. Beside many more goods they also sell many knives. Chinese cleavers of different qualities, weights and shapes and imitations of Japanese knives as well. I bought a 7$ nakiri, I like this shape more than the Chinese style.

Here's a short description:

Brand: Yi Lun or Yi Dun

Handle: plastic imitation of Japanese Ho wood handle and black hilt, oval, symetric

Blade: 175 mm, 6.5" stainless, hardness in the 50ies
sharpened on a grinding wheel by hand

The knife isn't finished or manufactured very well (ok., worse than Henckels [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ) but came sharp out of the box. It's better than other cheap knives I've seen.

My rating:

Fit and fish: 2.5
Performance: 3
Ergonomics: 4

All in all, if you're just looking for a sharp and comfortable knife, it's a good idea to buy it, Chinese stores shurely are a good choice (if you forget all other aspects). Better knives are much more expensive.

Peter

[Andy777]

Peter, you need to get a digital camera so you can take pictures of all these finds [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

[Peter]

Andy, I don't know if they'd like me taking pictures of their knives, but some of them were quite interesting and really cheap.

Peter