I have a cheap $10 Asian market one but it can never get sharp enough. Even when I've gotten it professionally sharpened. My FIL used my Shun vegetable cleaver and chipped it. 
Hoping it can be salvaged or warrantied. The Shun meat cleaver has mixed reviews, but some negative ones make me hesitate getting it.
Any recommendations for a great meat cleaver, that my ILs can use to pulverize and chop chicken and ribs?
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
I have a wusthof cleaver that has survived two sit months of daily chicken hacking and still sharp as heck. 
bananas / 9973 posts
@regberadaisy: Was it one of these ones? I can't tell this difference except for oh, about $100.
@Mrs. Detour: Oh, I need one that can handle chicken and rib bones.
coconut / 8430 posts
@shopaholic: If you look carefully at where the knife and handle meet, they look a little different.
I'm guessing the cheaper one is part of the Gourmet collection. You can see on the more expensive one that it is part of the Classic collection. The cheaper one says specifically it won't do bones.
I googled and found this:
http://www.metrokitchen.com/wusthof-knife-comparison-guide
Classic is forged and Gourmet is stamped. I don't know how that translates into cutting quality though.
bananas / 9973 posts
@sunny: Ooh! Thanks for pointing that out! Do you have the Wustof one too?
coconut / 8430 posts
@shopaholic: I don't have a cleaver! 
I do have the Wusthof Classic knives though and I like them but I don't have any experience with any other (good quality) knives to compare to.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
@shopaholic: this is the one I have.
http://www.wuesthof.com/germany/products/Product-details/cleaver-4680-16
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