After I was impressed by the garden equipment made by Fiskars and heard so many good things about the splitting ax, I've checked, what else is there. Knife ... and even as low. So I ordered the Santoku and was blown away on how easily it slipped through all sorts of vegetables .... and by the Fingekuppe my right middle finger. Down to the bone. The surgeon did not even sew, because the cut was so smooth. (No, this is really not a joke or something.) I want to cut my with nothing more in the fingers. So I ordered one more Santoku. I'm going to buy even a third, so that always at least one is ready. Although I know nothing about the life, but the knife cut after months still like the first day, without that I would have been even ground. Frequency of use 2x to 4x per week.