I have had both, but I prefer the stiletto. I might just slip this one in my pocket today.
i have had bowie and stilletto cammilus maxx's and also the custom ralph versions and also prefer the stilletto, mostly for the looks, i still have a ralph 5.5" stilletto maxx and a ralph mini maxx 4" talonite spear point, great knives, the only con to the cammilus versions (which are remarkably similar to the ralph in size/thickness/weight/materials) is the cammilus is damned near as expensive as the ralphs, too bad they are'nt $150 or so anymore, they were a deal for sure. nowadays, i would choke up a little more $$ and get the custom unless i found a good deal which is about impossible lol.
another really nice large folder is the custom pat crawford perfigo, 4.5" blade, a great edc knife and really carries well.
best of the productions is imho the rukus by BM, which is also a fine edc knife with an excellent lock.
imho the striders arent really large folders in the same sense a maxx or perfigo is, rukus neither, they are more bulky than long bladed, just not the same.
the REKAT sifu was a great design, carried well, i loved the things, the rolling lock was not up to the task of locking up that big blade the inertia from the blade just killed rolling locks on sifus, i had 3 or maybe even 4 fail myself, one did it twice and after the 1st had probs i always babied them with no inertia openings, still had probs, but with a frame lock, or axis, the sifu would be another really great one imho, it carried like a 3" knife, but ya just couldnt trust those locks. my fav sifu was the bladeforum special edition with the smooth handle, i had IIRC #90 of 150, great knife, too bad it was saddled by such a sorry excuse for a lock, the REKAT folks were kinda "touchy" too, they also just could not and would not take criticism, deserved or not, they ran off a lotta folks FWIW. i wondered why the rolling lock seemed so fragile until i checked out a schematic and it was evident pretty quick, it depended on a small stud to engage in the back or maybe the side of the blade and imho the stud simply wasnt big or thick enough to handle the strain of a 5.5" blade, it was easy for gunk to get into also, worked better on the smaller stuff but still was a long country mile from being the "lock of the 21st century" regardless of advertisements lol.
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