if I was you I would keep with the opinel. I think thy are great knives,<br>thy are relitvly cheap compeard with many other knives and are exalent value for money, ( in france thy are very cheap!). and I've got more work out of my size 7 opinel then any other knife i've had.<br>I love the carben steel thy are made out of. you can get a really nice egde on them very easaly. <br>what sive opinel do you have? <br>because if the present one is too big then there allways smaller ones!!!!!<br>