This knife was sitting pretty under a glass display at the local goodwill. The price was certainly right! Some light pitting, but serviceable. A quick search on ebay failed to turn up any K-1's, but plenty of K-5's. Never owned a West-Cut before, but so far it's not a bad knife at all. Anyway, it's a keeper & will get plenty of use after I find/make a sheath. Thanks for looking!