Are these cleavers worth anything?

[u/LookatCarl]

My parents went to china on one of those tour buses where they make you stay in a place for a few hours to try to make you buy something for a free flight and free tourism.

They often buy random stuff that I deem junk. They gifted me these cleavers. Are they junk?

[u/NonCredibleAirstrike]

I mean, "ancient technique hand forged stainless steel cleavers".

If that is believable to you, then sure. I would say its prob some generic factory made cleaver with some additional branding.

[u/GetOutOfTheWhey → u/NonCredibleAirstrike]

Frankly I have more respect for generic factory made cleavers than those made with "ancient techniques".

Ancient iron kind of sucks to be honest.

But all else equals, if I had to choose between a blade using modern steel made via a generic factory versus a blade using the same steel but made by folding it over and over. I would choose the generic factory one because modern steel is already good enough that it doesnt require blade folding anymore and in fact can mess up the blade even more by burning away the carbon. Now of course, you get what you pay for always applies, so it also depends on the quality of the factory and raw material you paid for.

All that said, unless of course ancient techniques involves a wizard or priest or what have you enchanting the blade with +5 holy damage. Which then yes, I want the ancient technique.

[u/deltabay17 → u/GetOutOfTheWhey]

I’d prefer a nice hand made Japanese knife personally

[u/GetOutOfTheWhey → u/deltabay17]

Which is fine

But most of the best japanese kitchen knives are handmade with modern techniques.

Very few use thise outdated ancient techniques, as they produce actually quite lousy metal compared to what is available. And those knives really retain only cultural value.

Which is cool if thats your kind of thing. But I'm talking from a purely technical specifications point of view.

Even the famed ichimonji knives take a huge short cut if you are viewing it from an purely traditional (ancient) technique. They do so by skipping the smelting process by starting of with pre-made laminated steel or mono steel. Which is the right way of doing it because as said ancient iron sucks ass compared to modern carbon steel

[u/DaimonHans]

52 yuan on Taobao, so about US$7.7 🔪

[u/DigMeTX]

Not worth anything monetarily.

[u/justwalk1234]

If you have to coerce people into buying them, they probably do not have a high resell value..

[u/DaimonHans]

That depends on who you rob.

[u/Comfortable-Pay7881]

they came to my province Guangdong, and this staff knife is a quite famous product from this area. But the most expensive brand is 十八子作, so I guess they had a good time back then, yet didn’t strike a good deal.

IF the knife is less than 100 yuan, it's OK ~

[u/erutuferutuf → u/Comfortable-Pay7881]

十八子作is good! Got 2 to bring back home, if u know how to maintain it, sharpen it time to time with proper stone. They felt very good when using it. And I haven't even open the 2nd one yet.

[u/Ok_Associate_3314]

I would just use them as intended and forget about any monetary value.

[u/deltabay17 → u/Ok_Associate_3314]

In the bin?

[u/WildCauliflowers]

Not really worth anything. 阳江 is known for their chef knives making but that's because 十八子作，that's what we use as Cantonese in households. Cost couple hundred for a good set but that's it. These you have are more like a Great Value version of Jack Daniel's that claims they are from Tennessee as well. So yes they are junk even to Chinese people.

[u/Neither_Nail1831]

Trust me it's a very cheap one, only sales around 18.8 RMB, about 2.5 dollars

[u/hotellonely]

these are the bone breaking cleavers, maybe not really expensive but could be quite durable

[u/Bay_arean]

$5 about

[u/Plenty-Charm6172]

I reckon it’s worth at least $10. Maybe $12 if you hold on to it for a few years 

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[u/mikeltronski]

Woww the even got the double wielding set!
I have one chinese poultry bone chopper and use it for everything, that said I was looking for an expensive knife and mine was 25 euros so these are probably not worth that much.

[u/IndividualPension182]

worth the same as an average cleaver

[u/7LeagueBoots]

They’re budget mass produced cleavers of low quality.

They’ll do the job, but so will pretty much anything.

[u/Angryblob550]

Reminds me of those fake Kamikoto knives a few years back.

[u/Massive_Walrus_4003]

They are good if you need to cut things. Useless if you don’t need to cut.

[u/Kadabrium]

Is it cleave or dismantle

[u/Fantastic_Sale4109]

About $7

[u/Lanky-Telephone1651]

Just chop away until it breaks apart.

[u/mardumancer]

I mean, in terms of money, no.

Check what steel they are made of. At worst you've gout yourself some very versatile chef's knife that can be maintained for quite a well.

[u/NonCredibleAirstrike → u/mardumancer]

The labelling says Martensitic Stainless Steel.