Guess it's time to delurk and reveal myself.

My name is Bill and I have a few knives by various makers and have been looking for some bomb proof survival knives for outdoors use. (I'm a chef and have been using knives indoors pretty much all day every day for the past 35 years).

I've received my new DFLE and Scrapper 6 CG today, and am working on closing the deal on a SOD LE. I read around a lot and have come to the armchair conclusion that these may be as good as it gets for real world use knives. Infi steel is amazing, but it seems like many who can afford it aren't necessarily out using it. I really don't know that I could bring myself to start whacking on a stump with a $700 piece of steel that hadn't touched anything but a sheath before. But I have seen a video of a FBM LE splitting a human hair, so we'll see if the DFLE is enough knife for me to resist temptation (I hope that it is).

The edge on the DFLE is shaving sharp. What a beautiful knife. I am interested to see how long the edge holds up after all that I have read about it. I am comfortable with my sharpening skills, and the steel looks great. The edge is nice, if a bit rough, I think it would benefit from some simple fine stone work to just polish it. I really like the edge on that one.

The edge on the Scrapper 6 is not very sharp. It is ground at a much higher angle, but I think that I can just change the angle a bit and it will be very sharp as well. That is if I can bring myself to use these knives in the field as well. It appears that (I'm guessing now) SY may have changed the angle a bit on their edges as they evolved to make them sharper from the factory. I know a lot of people expect a knife to be a sharp, static form when they first receive it.

I was wondering if I might have preferred to get the Scrapper in le as opposed to cg. I guess that it will be nice to have some of each so I can see how they work out.

At any rate, it is plain that it is going to take considerable effort to do any harm at all to any of these knives, they are obviously some tough stuff. I think that I made the right choice of Busse variety given my intended use.

Now that I'm "out," I'd like to thank you guys, Horn Dog in particular, for popping up repeatedly in all of my google searches and helping me to get to "here."

Sorry for the long winded intro, I'm looking foward to your comments and getting to know you all.

Bill