8" Honing Steel is knurled and plated for durability designed to line up the burrs and straighten your knives edges in between sharpenings. Use it a few times a week to keep your blade edge tuned and straight. The handle is syled from durable G10 composite material to match the knife handles with a polished end cap.The beautiful wood grain handle look of G10 matches high quality construction, perfect balance, durability, & long lasting performance to the comfort handle.The wood grain look of G10 Red & Black handle offer extreme durability that is 2nd to none with no maintenance required. The rod is chromed for hardness and finely knurled to straighted your blades edge.Rod measures 8" / Hand Wash Reccomended