Ok so you're a knife guy ....Does that mean you have great kitchen knives ?
What do you have ?
Henckels...Wustoff..Global ..?
come on...i'm a bachelor. the crappy kitchen knives I own have all ended up in my shop. most have been heated w/ a torch to cut something and have some of whatever it was left on the blade. so I use what's in my pocket, usually this 
Henckels four stars... had 'em for years.
I have Furi Coppertail(before Rachel Ray) knives in my kitchen. All Dexter russell knives outside.
I have Henckels and Wustoff.
I really like my Mora's
Cool I almost bought the furi and considered the global but they are pricey as can be .I had a set of bad henckels given as a housewarming gift by my brother and I was terribly excited until i realized the made in spain henckels really really sucked . I bought CIA Knives and really like them even though I just found out they are made in china ... Still very nicely built .
Today at lunch my wife mentioned that she needed some better kitchen knifes.
Is there a Solar Force equivalent [quality & value] in the knife world?
I've also been intrigued by ceramic blades, are they any good?
The last time i did she cut the living sh
She cut herself pretty bad .
Me , any high carbon knife will do as long as it's sharp .
I keep a couple of Old Hickorys around for when there's a lot of cuttin' to be done .
I've had a nice set of Wusthoff for about a dozen years now, fantastic quality. I've also purchased a few Farberware forged knives just to check them out, and for the money they're very nice knives...just make sure you get the forged models.
I won a set of Victorinox kitchen knives at a work Christmas party and they are tons better than any junk I've had before. Not sure how these rate on a scale of nice knives.
Truth of the matter is if they suck they need to be replaced and dropping some coin is one of the smartest things you can do since they last your entire life ..the good ones make you happy every single time you use them
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.A bad knife is like a bad wife .
By a MAC knife and you have a knife for the rest of your life. I have the MAC Japanese Vegetable knife and the MAC Superior Utility knife. Not cheap but for your lifetime as I said.
I use the best knives money can buy............from Walmart. :p
I have some global, furi, mondial and a few ceramics. Wife cut her hand badly once.
Kershaw Shun and Spyderco for 8 years now.
Bought a set of Henckels (the german-made two man ones, not the "international") 20 years ago, and never regretted it. Marriage meant another set, so sharpening = sitting down with the waterstones and a good movie like Dust To Glory. Also got a few of the old french Sabatiers, both carbon and stainless. (Not the recent ones that are $h!t. They sold the name, I think.)
I have plenty of sharp pocket knives... but the kitchen knives at my place are pretty dull.
Na-na Na-na Boo-boo, Stick Your Head in Doo-doo. :p
Just came back from my Beijing trip. I purchased some 5CR15 hardened steel knives, Exxon brand. The set is this : Got 1 big cleaver, 1 medium cleaver, and a 20cm long one for cutting meat. 1 rod sharpener and also wooden block for holding it. 3 scissors (pretty decent stuff, like the 5 bucks type if i buy locally) and 2 handheld stredders for shredding stuff like carrots/radish etc, you know those multi-use tools. Total cost, usd30.
Actually I have a cheap WMF 5-pc Classic line set (still costed me like 80 bucks), but this Exxon set is finished nicer.
It says CRMO V15 on the WMF Classic line. So which one's steel is better?
The 5CR15 demo was pretty impressive. It was able to slice a Campbell's soup can into half with 2 slices. I used it to hit a steel pipe with over 10 no-holds-barred knocks till i tired myself out with all the noise (very loud) and vibrations and the demonstrator followed up with 10 more knocks on the pipe with the sharp edget, and it was still as sharp as ever.
Something like budget light vs premium light.