It is doubly frustrating when they have some plausible looking handles enticingly peeping out of a knife block but are all totally blunt. So you give em a couple of swipes with the presumably unused steel in the drawer, but no; the knives are not in fact top quality global/ sabbatier/wustoff, nor even cheap but good catering knives from sheffield, but in fact utterly shyte blades with pretty handles.
Mind you, my Dad has this fixation with not sharpening anything "else you'llruin the blade" so every single chisel, knife, billhook however good originall is utterly unusable now but mustn't be sharpened
