Personalized Damascus steel cleaver — a bold, custom gift for chefs, BBQ lovers, or home cooks. Built for performance and presentation.

A cleaver is a heavy, ax-like knife that has been used for about the past one million years to cut through meat and animal bone. In modern times, it is generally made of carbon steel or iron and employed as a requisite tool for a butcher and a common kitchen implement. Its high-end use and versatility are truly exemplified by Chinese-style cooking. Here it has a great utility in every step of food preparation, from slicing vegetables, chopping firewood, and whittling chopsticks to butchering meat. Moreover, its flat surface is useful, like a mallet, to pound and tenderize tough meatloaves. In addition to an all-purpose broad blade cleaver, you can also find a standard, narrow-bladed, lighter cleaver used for gentle slicing. The meat cleaver, also known as the western cleaver, features a thick blade that is not very sharp. It is meant for heavy-duty use like splitting bones; it does not require a very sharp edge.  For what purposes are meat cleavers used? The large knife that varies in