The most interesting detail about this knife is the ceramic blade. Closed length 4.375". Blade 3.125 ". Comes with gift box. Looks beautiful, high quality knife, blade is really sharp, but not razor sharp. Besides the look I liked, I bought this one because of my curiosity - what is that ceramic blade? It's a good gift idea anyways :) There were many controversial opinions about ceramics as a blade material, so I decided to sacrifice some $$$ and ... As authorities say ceramic blade has several advantages:
- Extremely resistant to wear - Hmm, true, although never tried to cut something hard, afraid not to damage the very fragile blade;
- Corrosion resistant - Sure, none detected after few years. Well, there's nothing to rust anyway :);
- Extremely high hardness - it is beyond the Rockwell scale, as I know something like 90 HRC; However it is very fragile, you drop it and there's your chance to say bye to your lovely ceramic blade :(((
- Antimagnetic - That's true too ;) However I'm not a Navy Seal miner working on a magnetic mine, so really I don't care too much about or may be I don't care about it at all;
- Does not discolor - Yeah, that's true, it doesn't ;) If it does mean anything to you; what does your knife look like, then it is an advantage. Otherwise, why would you buy this knife at all?
- Does not influence the taste of food - In theory that's very important too, but I can't imagine anyone seriously intending to use this knife in the kitchen, 3.125 inch blade knife in the kitchen? :) May be to skin oranges while laying back and watching TV? Don't know;
It's couple years since I wrote the initial review, things have changes since then, and I've got some real life experience regarding the creamic blades. This particular knife given away, as a gift(though I still have another one, just for the heck of it), and was used for 3 months in the flower shop. Just to cut flowers. After that it's dead, dull in other words, and there's no way to resharpen it, and I'm too lazy to send it to Boker for that. Another blade was a Keyocera ceramic blade in the kitchen for a while. All I can say is that, yes ceramics will hold the edge on soft materials beter than the premium cutlery steel, but eventually (depending on the user from 1 to 3-4 months) it'll dull and then you have a choice, send it back to manufacturer, or throw it away. I personally like sharpening things myself, so ceramics is not an option anymore.
Last updated - 06/20/08