My mom has had this bread knife for decades. I lost count of the years. She uses it almost everyday and it has never been sharpened and it still glides through crusty loaves, dense loaves, light and fluffy loaves. She never puts it in the dishwasher, so it looks like new. My dad and brother never took it out the garage to see if it could cut 'that wire' they were struggling with. I have pulled it out to use on heirloom tomatoes that are huge from the farmer's market; really ripe peaches, pears, plums sometimes too.  Everything they say about the quality - well, this knife proves it.