Product: Brad Leone 8″ Signature Series Chinese Santoku Cleaver Knife – Walnut or Black G-10 Handle

Not what I thought.

I’ve been in cullinary 18 years, use a lot of knives. Thumb/forefinger blade pinch style puts the big part of the handle a few inches behind the ideal grip, where it sits feels small in my hand. It is useable, wielding it isn’t graceful. Came to me very sharp, I like the feel of the blade. I’ve wanted to have this knife ever since Brad first used it on bon appetite. I guess I didn’t know the design wasn’t quite the best. I’m keeping it, the blade function is still impressive.

Not what I thought.

I’ve been in cullinary 18 years, use a lot of knives. Thumb/forefinger blade pinch style puts the big part of the handle a few inches behind the ideal grip, where it sits feels small in my hand. It is useable, wielding it isn’t graceful. Came to me very sharp, I like the feel of the blade. I’ve wanted to have this knife ever since Brad first used it on bon appetite. I guess I didn’t know the design wasn’t quite the best. I’m keeping it, the blade function is still impressive.

Great gift for my friends 60th.

I've had my own Brad Leone Sig. knife for a few years now and love it. So, when it was time for my buddy's 60th birthday, I knew this would be a great gift, and I wasn't wrong, he's thrilled with it. Keep on making a great product.

Great Knife!

Great knife I use it daily in professional kitchens. Stays sharp such a wonderful multi use knife

Only knife we use

We're crazy about this knife, it's pretty much the only one we use in our kitchen.

Great knife

I bought the Brad Leone knife about three years ago. It's one of my go to knifes. I love it so much I bought one of the new version of the Brad Leone knife for work.

Super durable and sharp knife that cleans up well and maintains its edge. I�ve used it daily for weeks and on some pretty hefty cooks. It�s held up with only some mild honing. Love it!

It has a great feel in your hand and is quality made. Will be purchasing more from them!

The knife is awesome, no reason to give it any less than 5 stars. I need to remember that even when I purchase expensive knives, I still need to wet stone the blade to my specific angles. I always forget that. But it's a great addition. I've never used a big cleaver style knife before, so I'm still getting used to it. But honestly I think I like the height a little more than a santoku. It's just a slower chop. 8in chefs knives and 6in santokus really have more speed. With the cleaver style, it's just a little slower and much more verticle cuts, instead rocking and drawing. But great knife for sure. No issues if you know how to use it.

I've had this knife for almost 2 years, it is not my favorite knife but is definitely in my top 3. What I love about this knife: it has a great feel in the hand, I love using the extra weight of the blade for sort of rough tasks like smashing garlic cloves and dicing/mincing herbs, veggies etc. If I'm doing something that I think is too tough for my Miyabi chef's knife, this is probably my go to. My only complaint about this knife: the bevel angle from the factory was steep. Even though the knife was sharp, the abrupt angle of this bezel made it feel clumsy. Slicing through something simple like an onion was hard to do straight and took more force than it should have. I hand-sharpen my knives and was able to rework the primary bezel, and now the knife is really nice to use. Overall I really enjoy using this knife, just had to work it a little bit to get it where I like.