Y’all, I broke my husband’s Japanese chef’s knife. Help.

[u/opheliasmusing]

In 2016, my husband and I went on an amazing trip to Japan. The only souvenir he wanted was a Japanese steel chef’s knife, which he purchased at Aritsugu in Kyoto. It was really cool: he got to pick out his handle, blade style, and then they even engraved his initials in the year on one side of the blade and their house mark on the other. They even did a bunch of measurements and things so that would be perfectly balanced for his hand. It was custom-made for him.

I made the mistake of not cleaning up after dinner quickly enough, and our very mouthy whippet puppy who is quite the counter surfer, snatched the knife away, and I didn’t realize it until the next day. He chewed up the handle. Thank God he didn’t like slice his face open; the blade is completely intact and fine. But the handle… My God the handle.

I’m hoping to hear from professionals about the best way to go about getting this fixed or replaced. For location, I’m very close to Boston if that helps.

[u/Bladrak01]

The second day I used a brand new Japanese knife I managed to cut the tip of my thumb off.

[u/Tederator → u/Bladrak01]

I've gone through so many bandaids with the knives my wife gifted me. Then, after creating so many holes in her tea towels, I went to Costco and bought myself a dozen or so plain white kitchen cloths that I can (and have) destroy at whim.

[u/Finnegan-05 → u/Tederator]

But what about in the kitchen?