OAKSWARE Paring Knife, 4 inch Small Kitchen Knife Ultra Sharp German Stainless Steel Fruit and Vegetable Cutting Chopping Knives - Full Tang Ergonomic Handle

What's not to love? Good German steel, very sharp, good design and balance and at a good price. I like the steel bolster with fingerguard. At 4" plus it is a bit bigger then what I wanted, prefer 3" to 3.5" blades on my paring knives. Still, I can deal with it for a knife of this quality for everyday use.

I love these knives! They are weighted perfectly, even for my arthritic hands. They maintain their sharpness for a long time, and are easily sharpened. I even throw them in the dishwasher to clean them! My only complaint is that after using the heck out of them for four years, the back of the handle is starting to deteriorate. The knife itself is still usable, just the handle is coming out in small pieces, so the hilt is beginning to rust. But that's probably because I abuse them by running them through the dishwasher. I ordered more!

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Beautiful, sharp paring knife at a great price. I would purchase another if needed. Appears to be well made. Extremely sharp and looks great.

I bought these to replace a set of cheap, smaller pairing knives with fragile plastic handles which we wore out using them for everything - streak knives, pairing knives, dinner knives, cutting up raw chicken and raw vegetables, etc. These are extremely sharp and sturdy, and the craftsmanship is excellent. The hilt feels very good and solid in the hands. The drawback that I was not expecting but would have realized if I had paid more attention is that the hilt is very heavy. Almost too heavy, and with the light, thin, blade it means they are not well balanced. They still work well, especially for my bigger hands, but they can be a bit much for my wife's smaller hands. For the price, they are an excellent buy.

These are great knives. Excellent price. Very thick and heavy and sturdy handles and when they arrive, the blades are nice and sharp.

Great feel, superb sharpness, perfect size, solid, great control… buy one ( or several )

I frankly wasn't prepared for how beautiful this knife is; it's a pleasure to hold & use. I use it mainly to cut frozen string beans to put in soup. I tend to keep my knives dull because I'm clumsy & tend to cut myself so a dull knife does less harm to me.The problem with that theory is, dull knives either don't cut frozen string beans at all or, when I finally do succeed in cutting through the frozen string bean (as I apply more & more forearm & wrist strength) a suddenly severed section of string bean will oftentimes go shooting off the plate at high speed to either disappear entirely from this universe (so far as I can tell) or end up on the floor at least five feet away.So, something sharp and heavy seemed to be the answer. When I went to one good housewares store, all the knives had thin plastic handles with thin blades sharp as razors & I could see in my mind's eye that there would be blood, my very own, soon to be seen amongst the string beans if I bought one of those deadly weapons lying in wait on the counter of that store.This knife is 1. heavy 2. sharp but 3. the blade is thick- not a razor. It's a pleasure to use, because it's heavy & sharp I don't press down hardly at all & I don't have to saw & I also haven't bled once. Pieces of severed string beans are no longer flying out of the universe from my kitchen nor littering the floor. It also cuts meat well & tomatoes too.It's a full tang knife; it's a pleasure to use & to look at too as it sits there quietly beautiful.

Very nice, very sharp knife. One would think it cost a lot more than it did. I am quite pleased with the high quality.