This set is everything you would ever want in a knife set/block The sharpening feature keeps your quality knifes at their best every time you use them. A great pair of kitchen scissors, 8 steak knives and an amazing assortment of preparation knifes. I love that there are 2 size paring knives, 2 size carvers, chopping santoku, boning knife, tomato knife and a really awesome shaped prep knife. I really like using the bread knife since I had never had one before, it slices baguettes so much better than I ever expected.