Very difficult decision. My cg dogfather is a joy to use...and it gets lots of wood processing use. However, I find that I grab my chopweiler more often. It may be because it is large enough to process wood and small enough (especially when choked up on the choil) to carve spoons and tent pegs, etc. More time is required to know between the two. I'd like to get my hands on a ratweiler (so much talk online of it's greatness) and a ffbm. For now, I'll say chopweiler but I'm not going to lock myself in to that decision. What's fun about this quest...ion is that the more you use your knives the more you learn how great they really are.