ZENG JIA DAO Meat Cleaver, Viking Boning Meat Cutting Knives with Sheath 8''; Hand Forged Butcher Deboning Knife with Tiger Pattern Blade - for Home and Restaurant - Premium Gift

Happy with my purchase. The knife is quite sharp. Cut through meat easily. I have not used the bone breaker yet, but it looks quite sharp and sturdy.

Be careful with this knife the weight is on another level! This blade is really sharp! In mean exceedingly sharp! When using this knife cut big things like heads of lettuce or potatoes etc! Not for chopping small hard vegetables! Its a beautiful blade with quality wood* This is for pros*

This is a 3mm thick 16oz knife, so it is much heavier than most Chinese chefs knives that are 2mm thick and 10 oz. However, this weight and thickness allows you to chop through thicker and harder objects that the 10oz Chinese chef knives are incapable of doing (or at least not without damage). I have chopped through polutry bones and lobster shells quite easilyHowever, it is not as suitable for "finely" slicing foods such as tomatoes. Thus, the 2mm 10oz Chinese chef knives or Western style chef knives are more suitable for finely slicing soft foods, while this 16oz Chinese cleaver is great for chopping and cutting through meat, bone, seafood with hard shells, sturdier vegetables like squash and zucchini, etc.I am giving it 4/5 so far because the wooden handle is not 100% tigtly fitted to the metal tang of the sword, so there is a small bit of give and creaking noise. I may reevaluate 6-12 months from now to give it a higher or lower rating depending on if it remains sturdy and in good condition or if it develops further issues.

This is an outstanding cleaver and an outstanding value. Very heavy duty and very effective for the purposes for which it was designed. As the product description states, it isn't for fine cutting, i.e., it isn't a knife for cutting vegetables or for carefully trimming meat. As such, it is heavy and a bit unwieldy for many cutting tasks. But do not forget: IT'S A CLEAVER.Some reviewers have commented on its sharpness. In thinking about whether or not it will meet your needs, consider its primary function: to cleave food containing bones. It's not a knife, per se, and shouldn't be thought of that way. That's why it isn't super sharp right out of the box. If it was thinner and sharper, it wouldn't be an effective cleaver because the thin, sharp edge would likely break when it contacted bone with a lot of momentum and mass behind it. (Read reviews for the thinner, sharper cleavers offered elsewhere on Amazon and you'll see what I mean.)For me, this is an excellent kitchen tool that excels at what it was intended to do and is offered at an outstanding price, making it an outstanding value. If you know how to use a cleaver, this will meet your needs beautifully.

This cleaver works great, it is well balanced and very sharp and has maintained its sharpness. I have used it quite a bit already cutting up meat with bones in it for the dogs and it saves me a great deal of time prepping their food.

really nice knife for $15. good wight.

The best cleaver I’ve had great size great weight, super sharp and unbelievably inexpensive

The balance could be better and the blade isn’t sharp enough. Once the blade was sharpened then the material was too soft for cutting through bones.