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Pros: None
Cons: Blade Material, Blade Sharpness, Finish, Handle Material, Overall Quality, Sheath/Scabbard
Super
This Tops knife is super,...if you use it as a knife. Many modern knives are overbuilt and can be silly. They are designed to cater to your fantasies of being Rambo or surviving the zombie apocalypse. I have no problem with that. It's fun. Yet in the days of yore, when men and women ACTUALLY used their knives for ACTUAL real life survival, not weekend warriors or YouTube hobbyists (not that there's anything wrong with that) they used knives that were relatively thin. Look up historical mountain men knives, or knives used by frontiersman of the 18th and early 19th centuries. They had thin, slicey knives. Knives that were meant to process game, clean fish, and yes, sometimes when things got too rowdy at the rendezvous to settle a dispute as well. This knife, in my opinion, was created in that spirit and with that philosophy in mind. A knife that is meant to cut. Not a beater. It lives it's best life in the kitchen doing food prep and it does it quite well, that being said and after everything else I've said, it is still thicker than your standard chef knife and has enough meat behind the blade so that it won't purely be relegated to the kitchen. It is made of 1095 carbon steel and even though it is coated to prevent rust it will still need your loving attention. Ignore the one star review concerning rust. For Christ's sake even Bob Kramer uses carbon steel on his knives! So, to sum up, this is a great Vietnamese inspired knife, that's made in the USA, with tried and true CARBON steel, and would have been no doubt cherished by the mountain men, frontiersmen, and Native peoples of days gone by. The sheath serves it's purpose well, nothing else to say about that.
