I have a couple of them and I love em, but they definitely don't wear like a German knife. It's noticably sharper than our sharpest German knife, but over time they've developed a series of small nicks along the blade. These are still our go-to knives, but when we're cutting something particularly tough where we want to put one hand on top of the blade, we pull out the German knives. The blade is thicker so you can comfortably put a hand on the back... so these knives are not a do-anything knife and you need to be ok with the inevitable chips.