a cry for help. Honey this knife is just a pain to use. Its handle's cracked and splitting and the thingies that hold the two sides together jiggle. Being the woodworker you are, respond to the challenge and using some really exotic offcuts make that knife into hair splitting museum quality tool that will last for your great grandchildren to have great grandchildren. Here is one way you can live that dream and be a kitchen hero
https://www.knifeplanet.net/how-to-reha ... le-handle/Of course the same method works for the trusty filet knife in the tackle box, and the flea market find you got for pennies.
The other end of the knife can also use some TLC and COOKS ILLUSTRATED magazine has a good article geared to kitchen knives. As usual what worked for one will work for many.
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articl ... hen-knives