Cleavers: types and uses

Kaleo, check out my friend James Helm (Forged in Fire champion!) and his Carcass Splitter.

www.helmforge.com

I dont own one of his carcass splitters, but I do own many of this other knives, including his bush sword shown at the top of his website.

To keep this thread on track. I own several CCK slicers, but use a Dexter Russell meat cleaver with Sani Safe handles as my bone splitting cleaver. I made the mistake a long time ago of trying to cleave a frozen pice of meat with a CCK slicer. The chip it made in the blade was…mmm…sizable. I did not attempt to repair it. Lesson learned. Use the right tool for the job. CCK, Dexter Russell and others make bone chopping meat cleavers that are designed to work with small bones. CCK, Chopper King and a host of others make decent chinese slicers that have the same blade profiles as nice gyutos, and chef knives, and despite their "cleaver " profiles, are meant for slicing vegetable and boneless proteins. I wonder how many of those pricey Shun cleavers have been ruined by their naive user using them as chopping bone or frozen foods?