First of all, I was not sure how I would feel about the heft of this knife, it is definitely heavy, especially with that custom handle, what is the wood ancient kauri? Second did not know how I would feel about V2 steel, never have used it before, just touched it up on a natural Aoto and stropped it on leather with 1 micron cbn diamond spray, and it was right there, tried it on a few things b/c I couldn't resist lol, nice on everything I tried, I actually kind of like V2 good steel, I brought it to work on Saturday and Sunday and used it for prep not on the crazy line, let my chef try it and he was asking "where is that sharp knife" yesterday, the heft of the knife really surprised me, never had a knife this hefty that was such an awesome cutter, the handle is awesome too, the only thing I noticed was by the choil it was a little rough, but the spine was nice and rounded and comfy, I had something lined up with PT (Pensacola Tiger) with one of these, and I said I was in line to try it out first, so it was pretty cool to get a test drive first, I am most likely going to get one of these for a workhorse knife, it is pretty awesome, especially with the custom handle, and the stickage is also pretty awesome, when I tried it on potatoes at home