The knife makes so a really good impression .... fits comfortably in the hand and is well balanced. Aaaaaaber absolutely dull !!! I sanded it and it is now nice and sharp - as long as I do not know yet. What has surprised me really, is that such knives to sharpen actually need a certain grindstone of harder than the normal stones because of damask steel indeed is particularly hard ....... here closed the sharpening with a stone in normal short time? Can not really be ..... but so!