I never bought a Scrapper 6 because I didn’t see the use of the midsized blades. I have some, but they seemed to me neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring. Too big for small stuff, too small for big stuff. I had hopes for the Hell Razor I bought, but Busse knife or no, it’s not much of a chopper. So I returned to my basic preference. A big knife for chopping paired with a knife small enough to handle fine tasks. But just in case I lost one or the other, I liked a big knife that could handle small stuff, with some loss of efficiency. And a small knife that could be used for big stuff, even if not very well.

I began to rethink the matter when I read all the praise for the Chopweiler. It seemed like a useful midsized knife that also chopped above its pay grade. That seems worth exploring to me. Alas that I could not afford the Chopweiler when they were in production. I usually keep my Dogfather in a pack, and wear a four to five inch knife on my belt. A seven inch blade is lighter and shorter than a big Bowie is, and easier to wear on a belt. Whatever the model, I’d like a seven to eight inch knife that chops well and also does small knife stuff adequately.

Sudden horrible insight; mea culpa! If the Yard made its version of the Camp Tramp, and released it with a small companion task knife, Dan could call the pair The Lady and the Tramp.