This is my first post so I will introduce my self first. I am from Serbia, partly working as contributing editor in Serbian magazine Kalibar, about firearms, knives, outdoors and survival. I am also one of the administrator of one of outdoors forums, Outdoors magazine, and during summer months I am teaching on local survival-buscraft school.

I have more than few knives passed through my hands, testing them at rate of at least one per month in last 3 years, and using them non stop, and almost all my personal EDC knives are Bark Rivers. I could chose between Fallkniven F1 3G, Idaho Knifeworks Cliff knife, Grohman No1, Fallkniven H1, Cold steel master hunter, and more of them, but somehow when I need to pick one from the pile I usualy finish with Bark River North star, or Forager as primary knife.

For city carry, I am not separating from BRKT Micro, which replaced all folders in my pockets, and only addition to it is Leatjherman Wave.

In reacent comparative test of few knives, A2 in BRKT convex edge came up superior in maintance terms to any others, from VG10, D2, and numerous others. At long run, when I make summ on time spent on sharpening, and time I spent using knives, A2 is on the top, with average sharpening ws cutting times.

So this is my opinion, and I am acceptinhg others, but no matter how, until I found something which will outcut at long run North Star, it will be my EDC and survival knife.

Bogdan