We love these steak knives. We have a set of 8 we bought 6 years ago, and find that we use them all day every day- not only for meals but for paring and snacking, such as slicing fruit. We even toss them in the dishwasher, and they are as sharp as they were the day we bought them. Too many times we found they had all been used in one way or another during the day, so we decided we needed another 8. They were out of stock but we were willing to wait for them!