Well, I went outside and put it to some use, and I've gotta admit I have mixed feelings. I was batoning in some pretty hard birch, and the edge is pretty nicked up. I purposely picked out a wicked knotty nasty piece to put the blade to the test, and I'm not crazy about the results. The edge took a fair bit of damage, and it's gonna take a lot of work to fix this up. Looks like a lot of rolling and perhaps some chipping too - I will have to clean it up a bit and see what I find.

I didn't mess with the factory edge at all before putting it to work, and it wasn't crazy sharp, but could slice paper.

The knife performed admirably for its size - certainly not as good a batoner as the full flat grind of the ka-bar, but pretty decent. Of course this isn't really a bushcraft-designed knife, but that's how I like to put all my knives through the paces.

Now for the good - the geometry is great for slicing, slashing type motions. I cleared out some thick stands of dead bamboo and it made quick work of them. I also really like the feel of the handle - it was easy to grab the tip of the handle up on for some light chopping, and the choked up position for detail work shaving curls off some birch sticks was very comfortable too. The thumb ramp fits my hand well and doesn't get in the way while choked up.

Apart from the way the edge was damaged, I like this knife a lot so far. We'll see how easily the edge cleans up, and that will have a lot of influence on what I think of the knife in the long run