I'm just a housewife gewöhnlilche (70) who like good tools. 1 was a short concise instructions here. 2. Hold the knife, what you would expect including, where I have not so often used that long! 3. ground I have not yet, but I had elsewhere also bought similar Damascus; not as good, not as sharp: on this I will now practice with the mitgekauften grindstone sharpening. 4.Ist money