Becker bk9 vs Leuku 8"

The leuku design has been around for a very long time. IOW it's been perfected!

A lot of you guys seem to judge a knife by how it chops and batons but forget that it's primary function is for cutting.
 
Happy to see you are satisfied with the purchase. For sharpening you can do as suggested by HardTripper, keeping the microbevel it has, otherwise you can slightly convex the very edge if you'll find yourself more often chopping than raw carving (tent pegs, feathersticks etc).

If you know have to process hard woods is better to put convex edge on.
 
I'm sure tge Saame People used hatchet's and axe to chop large logs, and to split tgem, yes you can chop reasonable size wood, build, kitchen, fish cleaning, cutting meat, and I do baton with it on reasonable size wood with tgeir Leuku, although it doesn't baton as well as my BK-9 from my experience a saber grind is best for me to baton with, at 3/16th's thick it's really not that thick and with my Saber vex grind it makes great curls, it's a combat bowie, so I feel it's better for survival then Leuku, yes tradition as a Saame People knife, but my BK-9 in the 1095 CroVan Steel is a very good steel to chop my wood where I live, I often wondered is the wood up North softer than the wood I chop, regardless all tge tough love my BK-9 goes through its been great for me a very solid combat bowie, I enjoy using my Leuku for a hot cup of coffee on the open fire but I also take my 2Hawks Double Bit Hatchet with me, I enjoy both, Stromeng makes a good Leuku, Ka-Bar also makes some good knives, if I was in a survival situation, having both the KS-9 and the BK-9, I would pick the BK-9, if I'm making a hot cup of coffee on the open fire the Leuku is fun to use, it is a good bush knife, but I put my trust in a full tang knife.
 
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