Mercer Asian Cutlery

[Ah Pook]

Anyone familiar with Mercer Asian Cutlery? Steel quality?

Just found out a local shop carries Mercer and their cleaver looks interesting.

 

[chugokujin]

I have 3 of their kitchen knives. A Chinese chef knife, 12" Yanagi, and the Deba knife.

The Yanagi and Deba have secondary bevels unlike their traditional counterparts. The handles are cheap and i filled
the gaps in the handle with superglue. I also removed the secondary bevel on the Yanagi. The box it came in is balsa wood
as well, and I've kept them and use em as strops. Just charge with your favorite compound.

I absolutey love my Chinese chef knife. Its laser thin, but ive chopped chicken bones without a problem. It got a lil chippy,
but the x50 CrMOV15 steel ( .50% carbon) is really easy to sharpen and holds an edge quite well. Its got a santoprene
handle and doesnt get slippery when wet. This is pretty much my goto knife and just used it tonight. I have higher end Chinese
chef knives like the Shun, but I like this one alot.

Great knives for the money. Hope this helps.

 

[Ah Pook]

Thanks for the input! :thumbup:

The local shop turned out to be a bust. Most everything on their website is web order only.

The Mercer 12" Sashimi Knife looks very interesting but I will probably try out the 7" Usuba first.