Speicher...To me, the $$$ you spend on the junky san mai from CS could be spent with a custom dealer that could make you a really nice knife for around that price...BUT...would be beat on it??:)

I have beaten MY Scrapper through some stuff and didnt hurt it a bit...Granted I dulled it some (:)) but that is to be expected

Andy...To be fair that was done battoning a frozen log, and IIRC CS finally hooked the guy up with a replacement...I will say that I have done something similar with the scrapyard 6 and it didnt care!