My daily knives are Chicago Cutlery, we bout em 26 years ago when we got married, hold a good edge, get yerself a good steel an keep the edge keen, then a good stone ta put that edge back on when the steel won't.
Ifin ya have a notion fer antique stores, find yerself some Green River knives, they be the ones from the pakin houses, I have several that were my dads an grandpas, ain't no better knife then a Green River!
Don't buy sets, generally have more then yall will use. Get a butcher knife, a slicer, a bread knife, parin knife an ifin yer gonna do alota poultry get yerself a cleaver.