Well, eveyone has the right to their opinion. I've formed mine based on actual experience, and my actual experience with an actual (not theoretical) WSK is that it's the most versitile, useful design of a knife I own. With just a WSK I can build an entire base camp, and then skin, gut, quarter, and debone anything I drag back to it. The only other knife I much "need" around is a 3 incher, or folder for lighter stuff. I have a 3in. Karda design piggybacked on the sheath for my WSK, and it's all I need.

This is the only forum I've ever come across a naysayer before. But I'm still not sure what the criticism is; that there are alot of curves, costs around $200 for good ones, and that other people made them besides Tom Brown? There are no actual downsides to this knife design; that's why it has a cult like following with crowds of people who'll pay for a good one. The last Beck I saw sold went for $2500. What this knife design needs is a company that builds quality blades to actualize it's potential as the end all be all knife.