I'm looking to get my dad some new steak knives for christmas. Currently when we have meat, he uses his leatherman and I use my gerber instead of using the 30-year-old knives that we have. I would prefer to get him 4 nice ones as opposed to 8 shoddy ones. We don't really have company that often, and mom's leaving, so it'll just be him and my little sister starting fall 2012. I'd LIKE to spend $30, but I'd be willing to go up to $50 if anyone knows of some really nice ones. I'd like some older-style knives, as opposed to something like these: http://www.cutleryandmore.com/henckels/ ... set-p11967
I'd rather have something like these: http://www.cutleryandmore.com/chicago-c ... set-p19861
I also have no desire to have a case.
I'm super clueless here, like I'm seeing hollow-edge knives, and do I want serrated, or not-serrated, what kind of handles do I want, I DONT KNOWWWWW!
Any help here is appreciated.