This knife has the potential to be amazing. Sadly two things (at least) get in the way of that. For starters they chose form over function when they decided on the thumb stud (bar...plate....thing) sure it goes with the flow of the design....but it fails at deploying the blade...which is kinda the whole point of it. At least it's removable and hopefully replaceable. The other big fail here is the double clutch whenever you try to close the knife. It happens every single time and prevents the knife from closing smoothly. Just a miss on the design. FIVE star all day if they would have fixed those issues. As it stands. A three star is generous.