Okay first report, frankly I was disappointed. I heard from many sources that I could expect a knife of extreme sharpness, and yet to be honest I was not impressed. Certainly quite sharp out of the box, but then again maybe I've been a bit spoiled by the edge on my Muk which to be fair I labored over for quite a while. Nonetheless this ceramic knife arrives with certainly adequate sharpness (I loaned it to a friend who is a chef, and he actually complained that it was TOO sharp, and cut himself cleaning it) but nothing like the scary-sharp edge people talk about. Maybe Kyocera has had complaints from the unprepared, and have backed it off a few notches as a result. Regardless, I would call it sharp but not exceptionally so. For kitchen utility it just about can't be beat, and it certainly does the slicing and dicing with aplomb. It's thin and light and goes through a light chopping job like it's nobody's business. Honestly however I'm dissatisfied with the knowledge that it can't take *any kind* of beating. It's almost but not quite what you'd feel about it if you were dealing with a glass knife. It's sharp, not sharp as hell but sharp, but too brittle to do anything with it. You can't drop it, you can't stress it, you can't bend it and you can't cut anything tough. It's impressive at the very specific job it was designed for, chopping and dicing vegetables, but outside of that role it's pretty much reverse-impressive. Had I to do it over again I would have given it a miss, but as things stand I'll keep it around both to use when I need what it does (very*) well, and to show off as a curio.

For the record this refers to the Kyocera Santoku knife: http://www.chefsresource.com/kyocera-revolution-ceramic-santoku-knife-black.html

I should mention that the blade shape is excellent for the Santoku's "three purposes," but the material selection is unsuited for anything outside of those purposes (slicing, dicing and mincing).

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*I should point out that it is excellent, *excellent* at the job it was designed for. Just don't try to use it for anything else.