Incredible BEAST of a knife!!! There's so much good to say about this insanely good camp/survival/end of the world knife! I now see why SO many people swear by ESEE knives! The craftsmanship of these blades is second to none. This is true, good ole American craftsmanship and obviously built by people who are skilled and take great pride in their work. They're not just throwing junk together and collecting a paycheck.The blade is thick and very strong and comes out of the box sharp enough to shave your arm hair. It pulled the hair a little but with a handful of passes on my spyderco sharpmaker it was smooth and just rolled the hair off! This thing is scary sharp for being as big as it is. The handles are beautiful and offer great grip. The thing that really impressed me with the handles and showed me just how handcrafted this knife is vs just an assembly line wonder was how the micarta handle scales are ground completely smooth and flush with the tang. There is zero overlap of metal or handle anywhere! It's just one continuous smooth surface which is great if you're using it hard because there's no areas that can create hot spots in your hand.The sheath is also truly out of this world quality. This would easily be a $70+ sheath to buy separate. It is thick, sturdy gauge kydex and has triple retention if you choose to use them all making it military certified for a jump knife to parachute with. It has a large drain hole at the bottom along with many rivets down the sides to attach other equipment to it either by screws or paracord.I've only gotten out into the woods with it once so far but it EASILY chopped through a fairly freshly fallen spruce tree about 4-5" in diameter. The first swing sunk the blade into the tree almost to the spine of the knife!! Then the next swing completing the "V" in the wood sent a massive chunk of spruce flying into the air and leaving a very deep V notch in the tree. Within a handful more chops the tree was in two! I cleared the small limbs off the trunk with just light swings and it went through them like they were warm sticks of butter. I choked up on the handle and rested my forefinger on the flat spot just in front of the handle (I do wish it had a small choil there) and was able to easily carve feather sticks like it was a 3-4" blade! Very easy to control and do fine work with which was amazing since this is such a monster of a blade. Then for the final test I used a small spruce limb to baton the knife through two logs about 6-8" in diameter and a foot and a half long cleanly and easily splitting them into two. This thing REALLY shines in batoning wood and splitting down large logs into smaller, dryer pieces. The most amazing part of it all though is that when I was finished chopping and batoning all that wood it still had a razor edge on it!! It literally lost NONE of it's edge even after hacking and chopping several large pieces of wood! ESEE should be very proud of this extremely capable, do it all, just badass hunk of steel the produced! Oh and none of the finish was worn either. It was dirty and had scuff marks but they all scrubbed off and left the finish still looking new.