Like I say I have two what more do you need to know its an awesome knife for the price.This is my new favorite knife! If you are looking for a new general purpose outdoors knife strongly consider the BK 16. My personal system is generally a hatchet or a folding saw plus a main knife and a backup (pocket/mora knife or multitool), for me this is exactally the knife I needed. I have been using my Becker as much as possible around the house and in the woods to get a good feel for it and so I could write an honest review. I have opened packages and cut up cardboard for recycling, cut rope/string, carved wood/notched wood, made feather sticks/fire, and prepared several dinners etc. I was not disappointed with in any respect with this blade. I have yet to clean and process any game with this knife but feel it would be up to the task, there may be better knives for the task but I feel this knife would hold up just fine. If I run into a problem with this I'll update the review, but like I said I don't expect it (I've done the job before with worse). The size is just about perfect for me, I was looking for a mid size blade that could accomplish many/most camp tasks while being small enough to be easily and often carried. I find some of my other knives beat out the BK in certain tasks like fine cutting or larger jobs but this is my favorite "do it all knife". The width is perfect for it to function at a variety of tasks, think "Jack of all Trades", this makes it functional for a wide variety of jobs but not perfect. I would rather not have to tote around several knives beyond my main and a folder so this suits me just fine. The weight is pretty negligible I do not find the knife taxing or annoying to carry around even after moving around quite a bit. The grips are slightly slippery when very wet but I didn't feel dangerously so, I plan to use some plumber or grip tape to sort that out anyway. As far as durability goes it has handled everything I have thrown at it and still looks almost new, but note I am not regularly batoning with this thing or chopping (If you are looking for a blade for those purposes there are other knives much better suited to the task - more on this later). The blade coating is... ok, it certainly serves its purpose and so far has held up well but its kind of chunky and honestly I see why some people remove it, personally I'll probably leave it on. If you want to strike a fire steel or flint to this thing you will have to do some moding but it's fairly easy for even an amateur. And finally the sheath, put simply I would rate the sheath as above average but nothing to write home about. The sheath should last you a long time and it's very functional but I personally will likely drop the money on a custom kydex sheath within a few months. So what is this knife not? It isn't a chopper, I knew that buying this knife and don't intend to use it that way except for emergency or rare circumstances. It struggles to chop, not that it can't chop at all, but there are better knives for that purpose so you won't be felling any trees. I have not batoned with the knife and don't intend to outside of emergencys or processing smaller bits of wood if I have no hatchet. Can it be used for that purpose? Certainly, but I generally have a hatchet and can split wood safely enough with that. That's me personally; I'm sure plenty of people do so with their BK 16, but just like with chopping, if that's your thing there are better knives out there, a few of them are the BK 16s bigger brothers. So far this knife has served my purposed as I expected it to (and I had pretty high expectations due to all the Becker hype) that's the reason I gave 5 stars. Overall I'm very impressed and satisfied with my Becker and would recommend it to a friend.And don't forget, if personalization is your thing this line of knives is for you, the amount of how to threads and after market options are pretty impressive. If thats what your into, google it and have fun leafing through pages of material.This review is for the Ka-Bar Becker BK-16 short drop point, 09 04 20The knife *is* a compact work beast. Ka-Bar's 1095 is tough, takes an insanely fine edge and holds it pretty well, love it! But some small issues are adding up...Blade design is very functional, flat ground to the spine makes it a pretty good slicer but the width of the blade, stock thickness and 1095 make it pretty durable goods. With a bit of a belly it's suitable to a wide range of applications - good skinning knife for hunters, good camp knife without going into 'suspenders mandatory' territory, popular with bushcrafters, fine for everything from food prep to wood processing and carving. Maybe even an entirely acceptable 'soldier knife'. The textured coating may add a little bit of drag but it's not really an issue in my experience. But the handle... it feels pretty good at first but is a bit slim. Some here have used a wrap for the handle, mine got a piece of street bike inner tube slipped over it, some material that adds a little cushioning and gets downright sticky if it gets wet. Handle design's great for manipulating the knife for detail work. Handle material's fine, very durable and much lighter than G10 (gotten to hating G10, looks great, tough material, but just adds so much weight). They *could* have added a little texturing to the scales, would have been easy enough for them to do. Three things about the handle that aren't sitting well with me - living in a desert area, haven't had issues with 1095 rusting, but within 2 days of receiving this knife, found orange-brown spots growing on the heads of the screws securing the scales. Maaaaaan!!!??? Entirely uncalled for. They could remove some of the material from the handle, trim a little weight but it's not a deal killer. While the handle seems comfortable at first, found a task to do with the knife that saw a couple of hours of continual use and found that the handle is a little too curvaceous for extended hard work, that it was causing my fingers to pinch together and gave me a blister between index and ring finger and my hands aren't really all that big, wear a medium size glove. This would likely be more pronounced with larger hands; wear gloves if doing any extended period of work with the knife.No deal killers there but some concerns. The sheath that came with mine however is an issue. It's actually very well built, good quality, looks good though not too fond of this style with added length for lashing points and the stash pockets bulking things up but, gee, the sheath that came with mine has room for *at least* 2 MORE INCHES OF BLADE, like Ka-Bar said, "Well, we need something to put the knife in, we got a surplus of sheaths from blah blah blah knife that didn't sell, let's use that..." The design is bulky enough to start with. Don't know if this one just came with the wrong sheath or if they're all like that but this one was certainly *not* specifically designed for *this* knife. That's a bad enough issue to keep me from actually carrying the knife. At this price point it's not at all acceptable. You get better fits from gas station knives.Unless you are purchasing this knife as a project, which many do, it's going to cost you at least $40 more for after-market kydex, you may as well spend the few bucks more for something like the ESEE 4 with a usable sheath with a clip that can be switched for either right or left hand carry (and if you really *must* have that stash pouch, ESEE makes one you can add on...). If you expect the knife to be entirely usable with a decent carry system of some sort right out of the box, maybe look elsewhere. At this price point, the BK-16 has got to be for love, not reason.Fantastic tool, does all it says on the website, tough, reliable and confidence inspiring, stranded on a desert island?, this would be most of what you need to surviveI love this knife! When you first see this knife you will most likely say to yourself "it looks smaller than I thought" Dont be fooled its solid for its size and sized this way for control and percision. It arrived razor sharp and passed the shave hair test. The BK-16 is perfect for smaller bush craft jobs. I would recommend pairing it with a BK-9 or your favorite bowie knife for wood chopping or batoning, there is NO knife that does it all your gonna want more than one.This is the actual Becker BK-16 the add does not show that for some reason as of this post. The knife came in the original factoy packaging and included the extra tan colored handle set not shown in the add.This is the real deal you can buy with confidence!Can go wrong with a beck BK-16. Remember this is Ethan Beckers favorite knife and the man knows knives.Fantastic knife. Basically, a smaller and lighter version of BK2 (which btw is a beast... way to heavy, large and thick for my needs). This knife is really perfect. Balances very well, fits very nice in the supplied sheath, which btw, is also really great. The small pocket on its side takes fire steel with a striker perfectly. Extremely happy with the purchase. Highly recommended (for a camper, hiker kind of person).The first Becker knife I own is the BK9, known in some circles as 'The King.' It is such an awesome knife that I bought the BK16 as a companion for jobs requiring something smaller. It did not come as sharp as the 9 and the powder coating effects cutting more than on the 9. The coating is definately the weak point on these knives, as it has a textured surface (and thus creates unwanted friction while cutting) and is overly thick (although from my experience with the 9 it wears down quickly with use) I plan on stripping the blade in order to remedy this.Perhaps some Batoning would be sufficient to wear the coating down a bit. I would have liked to see this knife come sharper out of the box. This knife is supposed to be superb for feather sticking, but the two gripes I just mentioned made the knife perform just ok in the initial test. A minute on the Spyderco Sharpmaker greatly improved the performance, but the thick coating still interfered with creating really fine shavingsThose are the complaints first. As with the 9, the 16 has excellent ergonomics which for me is a vital feature of this knife. It also comes with an extra set of coyote scales for those who find the black on black too tactical looking. These are easy to switch out due to the hex screws.Bottom line: Becker gets all the really important things right on these knives. The steel, design, and heat treatment are as good or better than knives twice or triple the cost, but for those looking for top performance out of the box there will be some disappointment. I hope that K-bar and Mr. Becker address the issues with the blade coating, although one should expect to find some areas where Becker will fall short of their vastly more expensive competition (ESEE, TOPS).Becker knives are all about personalization. One need only glance through the BK+tool section on Blade Forums to see that modifying these knives are almost the norm and are encouraged by Ethan Becker who is a moderator.ANTES QUE NADA ESTE CUCHILLO ES MUY LIGERO!!! PARECIERA QUE PESARA MAS, SIN EMBARGO NO ES ASI! ESTA HECHO EN USA LO QUE ES GARANTIA, ES UN EXCELENTE CUCHILLO ES FUERTE, AFILADO, ROBUSTO Y COMO DIJE MUY LIGERO. VIENE CON 2 PARES DE CACHAS (NEGRO Y COYOTE) LO QUE ES FENOMENAL! ACTUALMENTE QUE CUCHILLOS TE OFRECEN ESTO?. LA FUNDA A MI GUSTO ES PRACTICA DE UN COLOR COYOTE CLARO Y CON OPCION MOLLE, CUENTA CON UN BOLSILLO CENTRAL MUY PRACTICO, PARA PODER GUARDAR UNA MULTIHERRAMIENTA, FIRESTEEL, ETC. UN CONSEJO ES PREFERIBLE COMPRAR CUCHILLOS HECHOS EN USA. TE DAN GARANTIA DE QUE SERA MUY DIFICIL DAÑARLOS.