I bought this for my brother and I can't review it myself BUT Henchkels is the highest quality one can get and the price was perfect, so I was really excited to be able to buy him the top of the line for a reasonable price, without having to buy the entire set--I had bought some Henckel carving knives myself many years earlier and they were great and even my PARENTS had bought them decades before that! Thank you, Henckels, for making this perfect and extremely reasonable gift available for us.