The knife is hefty in the hand but not cumbersome, with a blade that is nearly long enough to do some light chopping. For making camp furniture, carving, food prep, cleaning harvests, and even processing firewood, it excels as few knives do. It’s in that middle ground where it’s smaller than what most people would consider a camp knife, but almost big enough to handle camp knife jobs. It’s a comfortable knife, too, especially, as noted, with the 3D scales, which improve the comfort and indexing of the knife, offering excellent traction without producing any hot spots. The ESEE 4 in S35VN steel is even better.