Well I have enjoyed sod busters for a few years now. When I am outdoors I tend to lean towards a largish single blade slipjoint, most of the time I carry a folding hunter or daddy Barlow but a large sod buster sometimes bumps its way in also. Over the years I have wound up with 3 large stainless case soddies and used them a lot for cleaning and butchering game, fish, and making brooms and garden chores. I have hunted for a while to try and find a CV one locally but had no luck. This morning at the flea market i stopped to see a vendor who has not been there since last fall. He sells a decent selection of Case, Boker, Buck, Cammilus, and older Schrade stuff. In one of the cases i saw a Large Case sod buster in CV and an older Schrade daddy Barlow in mint condition. It was his last of the both of them. I bought them both. I started breaking the soddie in when i got back by slicing up rhubarb and strawberries for 10 more pints of jam. The blade has taken an all most black patina all ready. any ways i am happy, and happy fathers day to you dads out there. Joe