I’m no professional chef, but I know a chiffon cake from a chiffonade, and the only knives I’ve trusted over time are Henckels and Wüsthof.
Amazingly, though, check out “chinese cleaver” on Amazon. For 10bux you can get a rather nice and beefy mini-cleaver (“chinese” not based on origin but on style) that does everything from smashing garlic (on its side, nice heft) to whacking through a big-ass melon or squash.
Anyway, to start with knives, generally you do NOT need a whole set. A chef’s knife, paring knife, and serrated-/bread-knife are all you need for like 95% of your cutlery needs.
Instead of a regular Norman-Bates-type chef’s knife, I got one of those sodoko style ones or whatever it’s called. (Can never remember that name…). I got that one as a gift, liked the style and technique, and never went back. Ymmv.
The 910+ feels a bit bulky at first as it’s somewhat thicker than the 9103/4.
On the other hand the G10 gives more traction than the ground steel surface of the 9103/4.
A good compromise could be the 910 Exclusive (which should be called 9103 Exclusive), steel handle with milled in lines.
The 9103/4 seems to be more of a gent’s knife that you forget in your pocket as it’s so thin whereas the 910+ is the worker that you might get in your way while sitting.
(I didn’t like it before my mod, it was too bulky and hurt me while driving, I don’t think that would be an issue with the steel handle.)
Grab them at flash sales for $10 each and see what you like more, 2 great knives for $20, nothing you can do wrong.
Thanks for the reply Adahn!
The exclusive pattern reminds me of the pattern on the Spyderco Nirvana.
I already purchased the 9103 from gearbest 6 weeks ago and still waiting for it to come.
I’ll grab the 910+ now from Fasttech
Thanks
I’ve got this fasttech.com/p/9535600 for a job student from fasstech at Mon 4 Dec, order from Nov 18.
Yesterday I’ve ordered this fasttech.com/p/9617915 for the other trainee, I hope it will be here before xmas.
This way I like to order knives, the plus of this and a battery replacement job for a GPS will help to get me a GPU for my aged PC soon
6 weeks is nothing if you are in deepest darkest Africa (or on the coast :laughing: )
I have only ever had one item arrive inside 6 weeks (38 days for a Convoy tiny)
My 9103, strangely enough, arrived less than a week ago, 103 days after I ordered it on 22 August.
Lovely, lovely knife, if it were not for slight machining marks inside the alternate clip mount recess, it would be entirely faultless.
They run on bearings which I would call a good way to produce cheap knives with perfect centering and smooth action.
I still don’t think they are always better than washers as they collect more gunk but they are definitely great for these toys.
Right now the other job student is sometimes going to open the drawer where the FURA to just flip it open “cos it’s so easy to open it”.
Seems the knife bug has bitten some more folks
Really i do not care about the “tactical” logo, but I would not have put the gun on him. But I like almost everything else, its impressing design, size, handle, steel 440C, full tang etc.
Someone on youtube did a cutting test with Fura S35VN and it was similar to real S35VN steel so I guess its real. Also D2 is a common tool steel used in the industry, so its easy to find.
