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Here's a pic of my c33, I happened to be purchasing a bunch of tools for work at the local hardware store and saw this knife hanging on the wall next to a set of calipers I needed so I grabbed it on a whim(after all I hadn't bought a knife in at least a couple of weeks
). I took it home and immediately put it to work breaking down a large amount of heavy cardboard that had accumulated in the garage over the winter. First of all I was surprised at how comfortable it remained under heavy use, it just didn't seem like it would be easy on the hand the way it felt coming out of the package. No hot-spots or major irritation after about 80-100 long hard cuts. I really leaned into this job, some of the pieces I had to cut were 4 feet long 3 layer cardboard. In fact I worked it so hard the blade was hot to the touch after around 20 minutes. The really astonishing thing was the incredible edge-holding of the 420hc steel. I really did not expect anything from this knife other than something to play with on a Saturday afternoon. When the job was done the blade would no longer pop hairs off the forearm but would still cleanly slice newspaper. I even used it to corral and then dispatch a Black Widow spider that leaped menacingly (okay, crawled) from one of the boxes. So two surprises that day; one a knife that I bought as a one-day beater is now my EDC and two, I encountered a Black Widow spider in my garage (in Canada-who knew?). Oh yeah, the bottle opener works well too, on a nice imported beer after all that work.