It's light and easy to hold, and it smells nice. The fact that the edges are cut at an angle makes it easy to pick up, and it's a great product. However, I didn't expect that the sound of cutting would be so loud and echoing, probably because the kitchen in my house has a stainless steel worktop, and also because Japanese cypress is harder than paulownia wood. In the end, when cutting hard things, I use a paulownia cutting board and a dishcloth underneath this cutting board. I thought that if the worktop was made of artificial marble, it would be hard and the sound wouldn't echo so much.