Hi Ray and friends,
The knife I ruined was taped across its blade for safety and put in the garbage today. I had the good fortune of replacing it with a Joyce Chen Chinese kitchen knife, made in Japan. It cost $3.49 at my local thrift store this afternoon. It looks to be about the same “nothing-too-special” quality as the one I damaged. I’m content with it as a decent replacement for my middleweight cleaver.
I’ll continue using my classic shun as my thin lightweight cleaver. As for a heavyweight option, I took Kaleo’s advice and found a Fulton brand by foster bros model 1190 that’s coming in the mail. Probably it’ll get used annually, but can probably handle that lamb tibia that my other cleaver could not.
