Here's a pretty good review.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...C0Q&cad=rja

The CS steel tiger version is $80 up here

I've got one of those, found one several weeks ago for just under $60.00. Nice blade but to actually carry, I feel (to me at least) it's just a tad to big to carry at 5 inches but it feels good in the hand. But I do wish the handle was about 1/4 to 1/2 inch shorter. I like for my hand to fill up the entire grip on a karambit. Now if I wore larger than a Medium (or small large) it would be just about right.

BUT that being said about the Steel tiger, it is one nice WORKING blade. It cuts materials, rope, cardboard etc.. really well and of course does not have the tendency to slip off the cut like a straight blade does.

i wear l or xl gloves (stubby fingers)
i had a cheap karambit folder but other then tat i have never handled them

i need to find that folder

I'm always playing around with mine, CAREFULLY!

http://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=474
i do like this one

I just found the Ontario karambit. I like that one better. It's not as hooked a blade.

i can get the cs locally for $80 taxes in or $70 plus shipping from back east
no one locally has the ontario but i can get it on-line in Canada for $180 plus taxes and shipping. Too much for me to spend

That Spyderco is one wicked looking blade. But even though I know serrations are better for cutting some materials, I just can't get all that warmed up to them, even though I do own a few partly serrated blades.

Yeah the straighter blade would make it more of an actual utility blade instead of a more pure fighter like the Emerson or Fox, although they both have great utility uses as well.