Welcome to the Yard Mick!

You may be realizing 1) What a great forum you have stumble on and 2) That it's pretty hard to go wrong with any Busse Kin steel. You have come at a great time and I sugges that you do get in on the Srapper 5 LE. I think it a execellent knife for what you are wanting. Even of you decide to invest in other models you will never regret purchasing a release directly from one of the companies.

Hang around and see what goes on with the Blade West releases. Very interesting knives are on the way...