Need a breaking knife

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I am looking for a breaking knife and see that the Dalstrong knives have a pretty good rating on Amazon. I looked at their options and the two that looked worthwhile to me are :

Shogun Bull Nose - 10" Bullnose Butcher Knife | Shogun Series | Dalstrong ©

and

Valhalla Bull Nose - 10" Butcher & Breaking Knife | Valhalla Series | Dalstrong ©
My question is the steel they use. The Shogun is a AUS-10V steel and the Valhalla states conflicting inof with one location saying 9CR18MOVAUS-10V. I don't know anything about these steels other than AUS-10V is harder than the other.

Is either of these any good? What other brands of breaking knives should I be looking at? I do intend to add a boning knife and a carving knife as well.

Thanks!
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garage_logician said:
I am looking for a breaking knife and see that the Dalstrong knives have a pretty good rating on Amazon. I looked at their options and the two that looked worthwhile to me are :

Shogun Bull Nose - 10" Bullnose Butcher Knife | Shogun Series | Dalstrong ©

and

Valhalla Bull Nose - 10" Butcher & Breaking Knife | Valhalla Series | Dalstrong ©
My question is the steel they use. The Shogun is a AUS-10V steel and the Valhalla states conflicting inof with one location saying 9CR18MOVAUS-10V. I don't know anything about these steels other than AUS-10V is harder than the other.

Is either of these any good? What other brands of breaking knives should I be looking at? I do intend to add a boning knife and a carving knife as well.

Thanks!
-g
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AUS-10 is a very good steel, and Dalstrong makes decent knives--looks good--but the asking list price is outrageous.

I've owned and used a carbon steel variant of an Old Hickory American classic butcher knife for more than 30 years called Sir Lawrence that can be purchased new:


You can get an Old Hickory and variants most anywhere--or a DexterRussell:

 
I'd carry that Viking to camp with. Both of those look great. Expensive though.
 
I use the Dexter Carbon Breaking knife and it works great. Much less expensive than the Dalstrong, too! It's the only non Japanese or non Custom knife in my kitchen arsenal and I often use it instead of my Sujihiki.
 
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