My mother took off the plastic safety tip and barely touched the point of the knife and she started bleeding! SO SHARP!! Love it. I tried cutting a tomato with a butter knife yesterday because I hadn’t received my knives yet, it was terrible. These will DEFINITELY get the job done! The self-sharpening feature is glorious. The only part I don’t like is that the block itself is 15 inches long, which takes up quite a bit of counter space, but otherwise this is fantastic. Pretty sure this thing will last through the zombie apocalypse, it’s heavy duty. Bring on gun control, I have deadly knives.