Pinzon 8-Piece Pakka Wood Knife Set With Glass Block
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Pinzon 8-Piece Pakka Wood Knife Set With Glass Block
Customer Review: Not worth the shipping
Summary: 1 Stars
Having been pleasantly surprised by the good quality of Calphalon's thrifty Chinese-made cutlery, I decided to give Amazon's house-brand Pinzon set a try. Amazon's set is a true disappointment in several respects:
1) All of the knives are thickly and crudely wedge-ground with slightly convex rather than flat sides. The chef's knife in particular is very poorly formed with two glaringly obvious areas of excessive grinding on one side near the widest part of the blade. This defect can't be remedied by professional regrinding. The boning knife that should be easily flexible is as lumpishly thick and rigid as all the others. Of all seven tools, only the sharpening steel is well-formed.
2) The handles on several knives are so badly fitted that they're guaranteed to be unsanitary. The chef's knife for example has a nearly 1mm gap between the steel bolster and the wood on one side; the huge gap has been filled with waxy brown filler. The fit between the tang and the handles is so poor that light can easily be seen between the pieces along the whole length of one handle. Even the lowest grade of dirt-cheap Brazilian Tramontina knives is leagues ahead of these in fit.
3) The tang and rivet edges stick out above the wood on all the knives. What caused this shrinkage of the "pakkawood" (resin-soaked hardwood plywood) after manufacture? How much more shrinkage is to be expected?
4) The block is certainly adequate though, right? Wrong. The design IS nice and space-thrifty. Unfortunately the stick of hardwood forming the base is very obviously split along more than half of its length. From the stain in the widest part of the split it's easy to conclude the defect was obvious to the maker also.
Very bad quality overall.