YW Mike. My recommendation would be the 711 all the way. It's an affordable, extremely comfortable workhorse of a knife. If you paired it with a 311 or a scrap muk I think you would have all the bases covered for whatever your needs. I'm addicted tho so this is what my Busse/kin collection is at the moment (I have a S5LE not in the pic) and I'm waiting on 2 more knives (911 and 1311). Good luck only buying 1 or 2 knives. I've only been around Busse/kin for a couple months and started with a 511 which I love for an all arounder but it's not really big enough to chop with.