In addition to that the blade shape makes you cut with just a little bit near the tips since you need to get all the way down to the cutting board. The edge isn't the thinnest, but it produced nice clean cuts with little effort anyway, and the lack of guard gives good use for almost all of the blade. Unfortunately the handle doesn't easily lend itself to more than one grip, and one that's not much useful in the kitchen. This was one of the better knives. It's main drawback is the short blade and the protruding guard .
Cuts straight slices with no great effort.
This was a pleasant surprise which to a large has made me appreciate it more overall. I was convinced that a blade this thick wouldn't be much use, but as I neede something larger too I included it. It cuts bread well . The length of the blade and the small guard makes it easy to use much of the blade, you get a good grip on the handle, edge geometry makes for nice easy cuts in the kinds of food I tried. In short, you can use it for everything .