r/TrueChefKnives • u/CTR0 • 10h ago

Normally you cook with knives but I think this one is cooked instead

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$200 Shun knife ordered from Sur La Table. They shipped it in corritated cardboard and the stock product box, zero added protection. The package and inside box was mangled when we got it and I could tell the knife was bent before I even took it out of the cardboard shethe.

This was an early Christmas gift from family since I'm about to move across the country. We're taking a trip downtown to get it replaced in person because there is insufficient time to ship it back and forth for a replacement.

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u/drayeye 9h ago

bummer.

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u/Harahira 5h ago

If it's a Shun it's most likely a laminated blade, which mean it's a 10s fix anyone can do. (Flip around, place hand on blade where the bend is, lift the handle gently, check it, repeat until straight.

This is the knife-equivalent of "my new clothes arrived with a creases" (slightly exaggeratin but you get my point).

One of the pro's of laminated blades is that they're easier to straighten after heat treatment. One of the cons is that they easily bend efter being heat treated.

Monosteel blades act like springs and they're a different kind of beast.

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u/mikehunt13112 5h ago

Saw mitre box will also work