...blade. I have 2 of these knives and have never seen a similar "grainy" serration on any other knife. When cutting up corned beef with lots of gristle before it's fully cooked this knife goesn through the gristle and bone/tendons/ligaments like butter while producing a cut surface that looks like it was cut with a flat edged knife. This knife sharpens up with a ceramic stick, just perfectly. ...