First, I love the fact that it comes with the magnetic knife stand. These types of knives are not the types of knives that you just want to throw in a drawer. And having the visible knife stand versus a block is pretty cool too, so that people can SEE the blade instead of having it hidden in a knife block. For safety reasons and for aesthetic reasons, these knives are meant to be shown off! And let me just say, they are extremely impressive! I use them almost daily. Fair warning, they are amazingly sharp, so use extreme caution. I really have nothing negative to say about this set, other than the handles, if your hands are wet, can be very slick, so try to make sure the handles stay dry and your hands can stay dry while using them. It might not be a bad idea to have hand gripper gloves for use in the kitchen when handling these knives if you are known to be an accident prone person in the kitchen (like myself). I've only cut myself twice, once by using my finger to slide slices of mushrooms off of the blade (something I can easily do with my other knife set without risk of getting sliced myself) and another time a tiny cut on the heel part of the palm of my hand when I was washing the bigger knife and the back corner touched my hand, and I didn't realize it nicked it until a few moments later. Nothing horrible, but still, just an example how careful you need to be because they are just that sharp. Take good care to not put in the dishwasher and hand wash all of these, and make sure you do an occasional oil maintenance to the handles with a good wax/wood oil, and this set will probably outlive you! Highly recommend this as a gift to yourself or someone else who you might want to impress with a great gift! Hope this review is helpful!!!