Japanese Kitchen Knife Set of 5 (Wooden Box Case) Mr. Takaaki Nakamura

For the price of this set, I was nicely surprised by the quality and sharpness of the knives. They are lightweight, sleek, and do their jobs efficiently. Overall, I am pleased with these knives.

Nice set of knives, very sharp and cuts very well, Not as thick as traditional Japanese knives, like my Mom had, but those were about a thousand dollars for just a couple knives made by Japanese Swordsmiths in japan, so these are quite the value, well worth the price

Better than any starter kit you can buy. I own shun, Mac, and kiwi knives but use these as a travel back up I keep in my trunk. It's a softer steel and not a super stiff, there's a bit of flex in almost all the knives except for the petit deba. The flex is contributed to a thinner blade which gives you finer edge; therefore, giving you a very sharp feel. As long as you hand wash these, use a sharpening stone, and keep a honing steel on it, it's quite an easy knife set to maintain The stone and steel are key for maintaining a nice edge on such soft steel. For a novice cook you could start here and upgrade the knives you want. I've had them nearly a month and the paint of the handle started to flake off, which doesn't bother me much. aesthetically, they are some cheesy looking japanese styled knives, but logically the best bang for my buck I've ever encountered in my 10 years of professional cooking.

They are very ease to use and very sharp edge and it feels good when you hold them the

This product is a good enough if you want to get started, as a novice/beginner, in the world of East Asian cutlery. The fit and finish is really pretty good for the price. The stainless steel isn't the greatest but it's good enough; it'll hold an edge for awhile before it needs touched up.When I got the set I used all the knives on veggies (carrots and zucchini) and meat (sliced bacon). All sliced through the bacon cleanly with one stroke, and all cut the zucchini except, ironically, the veggie cleaver. All had a little trouble withslicing through the carrot easily, but that's a tough tuber. The cleaver just needed some strokes on a fine stone and a leather strop to get it to cut like it should.For the money, this is hard to beat.

Yes, the handles are not real wood but very durable, more so than wood. Good knives, good value.

3rd time buying.You do need to rescue handles where blade attached. My first set is 3 yrs old.I like them because of Japanese steel, seems softer & easily can reshaped edge

I own two sets of Henkel knives. I bought these guys every day set for my teenage kids who begin to cook, and I want to destroy my nice knives, but I find myself using knees just as much they feel good in your hand, extremely sharp, sharp edge as well as can be sharpened very easily with your steel.