Because I don’t pay attention sometimes, I keep my one sharp knife in a sheath.
I have two butchers steels, both over a hundred years old. One just a little more course or maybe less worn than the other. When I get done sharpening you could shave with those knives. My son got me a Japanese Messermeister for my birthday one year, about a hundred dollar knife. That knife is kept in it’s box untill I get ready to use it.