Seems like a real high quality knife set. I'm a steel snob so I find it annoying that they do not specify the steel that is being used. They just say high carbon stainless which really doesn't make sense. Either a steel is stainless or it is high carbon, it can't be both. Anyhow, the true test of any knife set come when you have to sharpen them. I just got them so I have had to sharpen them yet. The only thing I don't like on first inspection is that the steak knife have a recurve. This is unnecessary and will make them harder to sharpen. I'm not sure what their reasoning is behind that blade design. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]