Opinions on Spyderco Kopa stainless

[Ourorboros]

The Spyderco Kopa in stainless steel - the latest sprint run - has kind of caught my eye. But oddly for a knife that's been around that long, there aren't many reviews of the Kopa. Most of what I've found are people showing off their collections.
I'm really on the fence about this knife. I don't like untextured metal as handles, because of the possibility of slippage, but it is a gentleman's knife.
Anybody with experience carrying and using the Kopa, especially the stainless version?

 

[psquared]

I don't have the new Kopa, just one of the old inlay ones. Despite it being thicker blade stock than my stainless Dragonfly, I prefer to carry and use the Kopa. The Dragonfly is fine but not as comfortable in hand.

From my experience with the stainless Dragonfly, it scratches up quickly particularly if you are carrying in pocket as you would need to do with the stainless Kopa being without a pocket clip.

If I didn't have one of the older Kopas I would definitely have gotten the new stainless one. If I was deciding about a stainless Dragonfly vs a Kopa, I'd take the Kopa.

 

[Planterz]

No clip on the sprint run, so there's that.

The Kopa is an interesting little knife. I've got one in Cocobolo, and it's certainly a "go-to" for me when I need/want to carry a gent's knife. It seems like it was made as small as possible but still fit in an average hand with 4 finger grip, which is why it has such a generous finger choil and rather poor blade-to-handle ratio. The steel handles do scratch though. If you carry and use it with any regularity it'll get marked up quickly, and even if you carry it in a slip or separate pocket, eventually a stray grain of sand will get in there with the knife and you'll have ugly snail trails all over the handles. They have a slight "satin" machine finish to them, which'll show marks pretty readily, perhaps even moreso than if they had a polished finish. IMO a stonewashed/tumbled finish from the factory wouldn't have been a bad choice.