It was a gift for my wife and she absolutely loves it. She had actually had her eye on it herself but when it showed up on Christmas Eve I let her open it and she wanted to know how I knew she wanted it, I told I didn't know that she wanted it, but I imagined she would like it, great minds think alike I guess. It works really well as she tried it out on a loaf of her homemade sourdough bread and she said it was so much easier to slice it with the new knife, great job all around!