Vic .... as someone who obviously has a lot of experience with both chopping and sharpening.... is one I am sure that can confirm my above comments.

Further, his recent re-convexing/reshaping/re-sharpening of his DM is pretty much the same.

The Bark River Bravo-1 has a better edge and cut better. But, after some work on the edge, the DM is starting to get close. It sounds like if Vic had some leather belt, some compounds and some more time, he could get the DM to cut as well as the Bravo-1 (???).