In a survival knife the forward curve is crtical for shaving decent feather sticks. Serrations are on knives because knifemakers respond to fads and can charge money for them. My Fallkniven has a small choil at the base of the blade near the hilt. I complimented Fallkniven's owner on it's near perfect size for working survival wire. Peter replied with thanks, but pointed out that indentation and the lanyard hole were actually used during production to secure the blanks <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> At least you don't have another fad, the guthook. Friend of mine decided it was a nifty nail puller. His cosmetically 'bling bling' knife went 'ping ping' snapping in half.