Durn it guys! This is the friendliest CS thread that I have ever seen here! All I can say is that I agree with you. I have a number of CS hawks, throwing knives, spears, neck knives, sheath knives, machetes, Explorers and Vaqueros. I have abused the crap out of all of them with no problems. Everything I have is 3 to 10 years old, a mix of stainless and carbon steels. They have all performed above and beyond and at very reasonable costs.