SENBON 440A stainless steel Gift wrapped 4 piece set sharp pocket folding Japanese chef knife universal peeling knife bread knife Combination set portable kitchen knives with natural olive handle

Brilliant. Well made and excellent price. As a chef by trade I can tell you these knives are legitimate and well built. Brilliant. Probably the best item from Amazon so far. Included a pouch for each knife and a carry bag as well as a little portable chopping board.

BEAUTIFUL WELL MADE SET OF KNIVES. THE MATERIALS ARE HIGH QUALITY. THE BUILD, FIT AND FINISH IS EXCELLANT. THE CARRY BAG AND INDIVIDUAL POUCH BAGS ARE A NICE TOUCH TOO.

Smooth, well made. Sturdy, large, heavy-good for van chefs! Totally take apartable! Open backs allow super thorough cleaning, so likely no NEED, but I know how we OCD folks are, so this is a nice feature. i wish they had a super flexy fillet knife for us fishermen/women in this kit! Actually, I wish they had that and a FIXED blade/full tang set of similar quality. These knives are heavy/sturdy. The nice box, individual knife bags, and padded zippered bag for the set are nice but realistically, for most users, are useless waste: Fixed blades with a magnetic strip and a sharpening stone would be vastly better. But if they continue this version: Four different colors of cord on the storage bags please to quickly id the knife inside. In much of the US, concealed knife blades over 4" may fall into the illegal category, so display it "peacefully" if carrying it in public. Non US places often have 3-3.5" restrictions-and even may prohibit carrying a knife with "assistive opening devices" that allows one handed opening (the knubs on 2 of the 4 in this set would likely qualify) so beware of local laws if carrying on ones person.

I love knives, and I love to cook. I wanted some excellent kitchen knives to travel with so I can cook with my preferred set. I looked through so many and chose these after sitting in my cart for some time. I LOVE these knives. They are a good zie, I have very small hands and these are easy for me to use, but husband's has are much larger and he found them comfortable to use for chopping. These knives have a heavy wood handle, gives excellent grip, and extremely sharp. I mean really sharp. even whipping the blade to clean off the chopped garlic with my finger I slightly cut myself. They do clean easily and I leave them open to dry before closing the blade. Just be really careful with them, they are ninja sharp .

I would normally only buy high hardness Japanese knives with a bit more carbon and a bit more likely to stain, and I do for my house. I have a 4x4 van with a galley that I've put some of my smaller knives in but they can get banged around off road, so I went looking for a solution. I looked at Youtube reviews, Amazon reviews, and knife videos on what people look for in folding food prep camp knives, and I settled on these for a few reasons. 1) I could pay 5x more for a folding knife with a ball bearing action, and many high end folding makers are making camp knives with high end steels. If you want to spend hundreds of dollars for just one knife, you can do that. This doesn't have ball bearings, but it does have brass washers (certified locksmith here) and brass has excellent machine properties for not being a ball bearing. With a little bit of tsubaki or food grade mineral oil and adjustment of the torx screws (some were a little tight), all four can be made to glide nice and smoothly. You can even use graphite lock lube on the brass, but I don't trust the hydrocarbon carrier fluid to touch my food. 2) I wanted a softer steel that's less likely to chip. Being in a van, one normally can't afford to bring extra knives just to have as backup in case it chips and I need to reshape the blade on a belt grinder. I do carry a worksharp set so I could if I have to, but it's still a pain. 440A is a trusted stainless steel for utility knives that is hard enough to take a quite sharp edge, but it's very durable and is less likely to chip. Especially with these full edge ground blades (which is generally better for food processing, except for butchering with a cleaver), the blade end can be quite thin. My wife doesn't take care of knives, meaning she will wash but not dry my knives no matter what I say, and she doesn't care if she is cutting into a bone or pit. So I wantes a reslient steel. At home I just have her use Our stamped German knives rather than my forged Japanese knives, but in a van I don't want to bring two sets, again. In addition to brute strength, 440A is very highly stain resistant, quite a bit more rust-proof than harder, more expensive steels. 3) With the more economical and yet more rugged steel, costs are low enough that you get 4 total knives for the price of half an expensive knife. I especially appreciate the bread and petty knives, because they serve their own purposes, and trying to put a serration into one folder weakens the overall utility of the knife. Separate is better, even though I am trying to keep my total knife count down in the van. Even when hunting and field dressing, I carry multiple knives for different tasks on big game. 4) The design is solid for cooking purposes. Many folders have crevices that are hard to get food matter out of. The water pressure in my van isn't that high (30-50psi with low flow filters). What these knives do is they give you an entirely clear fold pocket that you can clean all the way through with running water, and if needed, an object can push anything out without running into the far side of the handle. That they also fold the blade away you can put them in your van and expect the blades to retain their sharpness after they bounce around. Plus, on top of it all, they have burlap sacks. I used a sharpie pen to label them with the name of each knife. 5) The torx screws are standard, meaning you can easily take it apart and deep clean or repair, if needed. No security or proprietary bits. No difficult springs. The locking mechanism is just a piece of long stainless steel. I can always add a dab of loctite if things get a little loose. The female screw for the folding pivot action wasn't too long -- it was short enough that you can tighten down the make screw as tight as you'd like. That means the action will not be so loose that you'd have to file that down to get it tight again. 6) The fit was a little on the tight side. That's what you get for $20 a knife. I took a flat diamond file and touched up some of the lock engagement area on one of the knives to get the lock to engage better. It's better that it starts tight than starts loose, though. I can tune it to my finger strength for fast one-handed operation. So if you want to gift it, maybe buy it, touch it up, and then send it off. I wouldn't buy it as a gift kit without double checking all the knives and adjusting them slightly. Overall, it's a good value for what you get, you can touch it up to make them almost as good as a 5-10x more expensive knife, and you get a complete set of knives for any camping food prep situation. I might buy a second set and transform it into a filet/boning knife, skinning knife, gut hook, and bone saw set. Then I'd have a field set and a prep set all in the same style. Currently I have to use a knife roll and fixed blades, although I do use a silky folder as a field bone saw for cutting down animals for backpacking out.