Great knife set for the price. These are forged and full tang and have a nice weight to them. The block is nice just too small for the set. You can get everything into the block but the knives sit too close together for me.  I bought a bigger block and now have lots of room for extra knives and space in between. This set is far better than the Wusthof I bought and that set was about $100 more and the knives were not forged.