I wasn’t sure about these knives. After all, I have 2 knife blocks already, so I couldn’t see spending the money. Well, after my now wife talked me into it, we purchased them and I couldn’t be happier. The knives came well packaged and it’s the first set I’ve bought that actually had a plastic tip on one of the sharper ends. All in all I’d give them a 9/10. Keep an edge well and cut remarkably well. I still haven’t put them in the dishwasher just because I don’t want anything within my control to happen to them.