Golok came in today and it is the most dangerous butter knife I have ever held! It came from the factory with a nice convex zero edge. The heft is excellent and the extra thickness near the tip will help with chopping. Handle was too smooth and slippery out of the box so I washed the Bark River handle wax off with soap and hot water. It is still a bit on the smooth side so I "might" (1) wrap it with tennis racket tape or (2) rough it a bit with some ?-grit sand paper.

Interesting that the BRKT Golok actually weighs more than the DFLE by an ounce. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> The DFLE is a lot more secure in your hand as well since the Golok handle is fairly thin and like I said, a bit too smooth. You do have an extra few inches of effective cutting surface out near the tip of the Golok because you can bush-whack all the way out to the end of the knife.

Without actually using the Golok I think that I like my DF better as a chopper and my machete better for cutting brush. The Golok is a general use knife that fits between those two slots and would probably work well as a generalist blade.

A Scrap Yard Golok in SR77 with Res C would be an amazing bush tool. Make the blade 14" and it would be perfect.