Canvas micarta is bombproof, linen is very tough but can dent, paper can chip.

You save a lot of weight with the ResC and it is very comfy for chopping. If I had to pick an end of the world knife it would be micarta over ResC but other than that I love my ResC.

Regarding the HRLM, a lot of folks love that knife but I didn't keep mine as it was (1) heavy for the blade length and (2) the semi-choil bothered me as it was too small to be useful yet too large for a sharpening choil.