A boning knife, a fillet knife, a santoku knife, sushi and fish blades, a cleaver knife. Each exists because a chef's knife does that particular job badly — and a kitchen breaking down its own carcasses saves more on yield than the whole set costs.
For cuts a chef's knife handles poorly — boning and fillet blades for breaking down protein, yanagiba and seafood knives for fish, cleavers and heavy forged blades for bone and rind.
Boning blades are stiffer for separating meat from bone; fillet blades flex to follow skin and frame when filleting fish.
Yes — this shelf is built for daily kitchen work, from rosewood-handled fillet knives to a forged butcher knife for heavy breaking; tell us your cuts and we'll match the blades.
Most restaurant knives in daily use come down to four: a chef's knife, a boning knife, a serrated one for bread, and a santoku for fast vegetable work. The rest are bought for a specific job — filleting, breaking down carcasses, portioning sashimi.
Commercial kitchen knives are built for sharpening, not for looks: full tang, a handle that survives a dishwasher, and steel soft enough to bring back on a stone in thirty seconds between services.