It's like the blending of a beautiful gentlemen's knife with the toughest, nastiest, burliest tactical EDC you can find! Blade stock is super thick but a beautiful blade grind. I love everything about this knife, it's heft, it's extreme toughness, it's beauty and attention to detail. Only things I would suggest changing - always have texture or jimping on the flipper tab of a heavy blade - it's needed. Put some jimping on the spine of the blade between the handle and the "step up" of the blade. Finally, don't use a phillips-style fastener on the oversized pivot screw - use Torx! Torx is superior to everything else and it prevents the fastener from becoming mangled. These are very simple mods that would take this knife to museum-quality status as far as I'm concerned! Thanks for a great knife.