Category Archives: Chef’s Knives

Welcome to WCK(Wholesale Chef Knife), one of the market’s leading custom chef knives suppliers. We offer a wide range of high-quality custom kitchen knives, including personalized chef knives, OEM kitchen knives, and more, making us the one-stop shop for all your culinary needs. We use only the highest quality materials and employ skilled craftsmen to ensure each knife we produce meets our strict quality standards. Our knives are built to last, ensuring your brand’s image will be promoted for years to come.

Chef Knife Blanks — Sharpened, Heat Treated, Ready for Your Handle

Good Japanese Chef Knife Blank

Most knife blanks on the market are unfinished stock. Laser-cut outlines, rough forgings, blades that still need profiling, thinning, finishing and an edge before anyone would pay for them. Ours are not that. A blank from us is a completed blade. Everything that requires a factory has already happened. The only step left is the […]

6 Knife Problems a 165mm Santoku Actually Fixes

320mm overall length of the 6.5 inch AUS-10 santoku knife laid flat

Nobody replaces a knife because they want a new knife. They replace it because something about the old one annoyed them one time too many. The potato that stuck. The knuckle that got rapped. The edge that quit by lunchtime. Here are the six complaints that come up most, what actually causes each one, and […]

Branded Knives for BBQ Brands

7 inch Damascus vegetable cleaver with red and black G10 full tang handle

We make branded knives for BBQ brands — pitmasters, restaurants, competition teams, sauce and rub labels. There is no minimum on our stock models, so you can order ten or ten thousand. You choose the blade, steel, handle and finish, and we engrave your logo. Most brands start with a chef knife because it sells […]

What It Actually Costs to Launch a Private-Label Knife Line

AUS-10 ajikiri knife horizontal banner view with kurouchi finish and ebony handle

Quick answer: Private-label knife orders start at 100 pieces. OEM — your own design — starts at 300 pieces plus a $100 tooling fee, waived above 500 pieces. Samples run $100–150 per model. Custom packaging costs $1.20–1.70 per single-knife box or $2.70–4.50 per gift set box, plus $70–155 in box tooling. Production takes 25–40 days […]