When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. Read our full commerce guidelines here. They say a knife is only as good as the one who wields it. That's not entirely fair, though ...

"Oh, I just give my knives to old so-and-so," admitted Buck, naming an employee who worked in the company shop. "He's a wizard at sharpening a knife." Unfortunately, most of us don't have a guy like ...