Victorinox Chef's Knife vs WE Mini Buster

I'm no expert on food processors but I know a lot about kitchen knives . A good price/value/quality choice is a victorinox chef's knife (the Swiss army penknife people). They have a secret sauce heat treatment that somehow makes their stainless blades behave rather like carbon knives and so are easy to sharpen.

The Mini buster has exceptional build quality with a fantastic price. It's a perfect sized EDC knife for all applications in my opinion.

The blade does not seem to stay sharp for very long. I was surprised that after all the reviews I thought this would be a good knife. As it turns out it is not.

Love it. Everyone should have one. This is my dedicated package opening knife that sits on my desk.

So, this is a softer steel knife. Meat processors love these because the quality is very good and the softer steel is easy for workers to hone quickly. It is easy to hone right back to a razor. As long as your aren't attempting to chop through a bone with this, you likely will never need to use a whetstone

It does, I’ll admit, look a little drab. If your child isn’t inclined towards homework then you might have a hard time convincing them into this, because it absolutely looks like a school textbook that they might call “boring”. The occasional clip art picture of an animal with a speech bubble saying “halfway through!” is fairly ineffectual at dressing up the contents as anything more interesting than regular schoolwork. If getting your child interested is a problem, I’d be more inclined to recommend some of the branded, Disney / Marvel tie-in learning books as a way of drawing them in

WHY oh WHY did they use such an unattractive, down right UGLY handle on this knife!!! Plus, mine arrived dirty and I can tell in no time at all that it would continue to be dirty. It looks horrible in my knife rack. Maybe it's a good knife (didn't try it) but I wouldn't keep a knife that looks that ugly. I thought it must be a protective coating because I couldn't believe that was the ACTUAL covering on the handle

Answers with good, clear explanations are provided, so the book fulfills what it aims to do, but like I said, proceed with caution with this.