My son will be getting married in a year or so and I thought a nice wedding gift would be a good set of kitchen knives. I would want to make and add the scales to make them at least somewhat personalized. Perhaps a nice knife block as well.

I've seen some from Hock but the selection is very limited. I've also seen the ZHEN Premium Damascus kits and there's a pretty good selection but I only have the advertising to guess at the quality.

Does anyone have any experience with knife kits and perhaps suggestions on where to look for them?

Thanks for any suggestions...Chuck