These knives are super sharp and very pretty, unfortunately they rust if you even have water in the same room as them. That is obviously a bit of a of an exaggeration. However, as another reviewer noted, if you leave them wet for pretty much any amount of time, even as small as five minutes sink, you will develop rust on these knives. I left them in a sink, with just water droplets in it and the whole knife rusted. I also had two knives show up that were already rusted. I did reach out to the company and they suggested that I use steel wool to remove the superficial rust, this did help and does remove the rest. My family has two sets of Hinckels and I have the impression that these knives are trying to compete with Hinckel, my parents have had the same set of Hinckel knives for the past 35 years and there has never, I mean never, ever ever ever, been a spot of rust on those knives. Meanwhile they show up with rust already on them, buyer beware, you were going to get a really nice shark set of knives but you were going to be dealing with rust the whole time.