Standard (Medium) Chopper or Lightweight: Which and Why?

My 4V LC is my most used CPK. I don't do any "chopping" with it though. It's a perfect trailblazer through scotchbroom, blackberry, and green limbs where I live in the PNW. I use it all the time for yardwork cutting drooping cedar bows and overgrown vines. I carry this when hiking through thick brush to cut away annoying things blocking my path, like a small machete. It's light and short enough not to be annoying on my belt. If I want to actually chop through something like thick wood I have an axe or saw for that.
If I lived somewhere cold and dry I'd probably want one of the bigger choppers for processing wood though.
 

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“Both” was the only choice for me, too. I have an OG Medium chopper but I still ordered another. Nathan is constantly tweaking things. It’s sure to be improved, and if even only slightly, it’s still a different model than the original.

Someone once posted some advice here a few years back regarding Carothers pre orders. He essentially said if you have the ability to do so, never pass on any of Nathan’s pre orders. Ever. You will never lose money or be left with a knife you can’t sell. I’ve missed a couple of them over the years and later kicked myself for being complacent.

The SSDFK comes to mind. I haven’t been able to pick one up on the sales sub and I still don’t have one. Never again. So, I ordered a Light Chopper and a new, and probably improved Standard Chopper. And now I impatiently wait for UPS to ring the doorbell. 😃
 
Basko00 said:
“Both” was the only choice for me, too. I have an OG Medium chopper but I still ordered another. Nathan is constantly tweaking things. It’s sure to be improved, and if even only slightly, it’s still a different model than the original.

Someone once posted some advice here a few years back regarding Carothers pre orders. He essentially said if you have the ability to do so, never pass on any of Nathan’s pre orders. Ever. You will never lose money or be left with a knife you can’t sell. I’ve missed a couple of them over the years and later kicked myself for being complacent.

The SSDFK comes to mind. I haven’t been able to pick one up on the sales sub and I still don’t have one. Never again. So, I ordered a Light Chopper and a new, and probably improved Standard Chopper. And now I impatiently wait for UPS to ring the doorbell. 😃
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I already regret not getting in on the pre-order, but I was being responsible.......a responsible idiot!
 
kurpak said:
My 4V LC is my most used CPK. I don't do any "chopping" with it though. It's a perfect trailblazer through scotchbroom, blackberry, and green limbs where I live in the PNW. I use it all the time for yardwork cutting drooping cedar bows and overgrown vines. I carry this when hiking through thick brush to cut away annoying things blocking my path, like a small machete. It's light and short enough not to be annoying on my belt. If I want to actually chop through something like thick wood I have an axe or saw for that.
If I lived somewhere cold and dry I'd probably want one of the bigger choppers for processing wood though.
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Very, very cool post. As a fellow PNWerner and former LC owner, I really get what you’re saying.
 
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