Also if you don't like the rat 1 because of its size and as a result awkward ergonomics check out a rat 1.5 it's ergonomics are extremely good for XL glove size hands like myself. I still can't get over well that knife is done in fit and finish and the magnacut is done very well and they didn't skimp on running it soft, my first one texted 64.2 and the 2nd one I bought 63.6. Performance has been excellent and considering i bought the first one in person at the knife store for 84 dollars plus tax and after doing the Hrc test I immediately went and bought a second one and the receipt had 10% off next purchase so it was 76 plus tax.. You can't beat two brand new models in well made knives and in well done magnacut for round about 170 total. Im not a fan of the rat 1 in hand it's not a comfortable knife to me and the geometry of the blade isn't great not saying it's bad it's just not great. The 1.5 is totally different in hand, the ergonomics are great and the cutting geometry is good as it's thinner behind the edge than the rat 1 so it just slices nicer. I had the 1.5 in my pocket on the last day of work before we take out end of year 3 weeks off and I did a crazy amount of cutting at work getting the storage room cleaned out of card board and it was about double my normal cutting and my normal cutting is a huge amount plus it's spent the last roughly 6 days on the homestead with me and I have done a ton of cutting here as well. With all that cutting its still on the factory edge and has only been stropped for about 8 passes each time about 4 times and the edge is still going strong and comes back shaving no problem with just a few stropping passes that's quite impressive considering like my hogue deka in magnacut I get about a week of use with stropping maintenance and by about day 6 of 7 stropping isn't doing it anymore and it's getting time to do a micro bevel with a ceramic rod or getting ready to need a full sharpening. I've tested 6 or 7 magnacut dekas and they are all about the same so it's not like I just got a bad one but Im confident in saying that the magnacut on both my rat 1.5s is done better than any hogue magnacut I have or have tested. I'm telling everyone the rat 1.5 is a winner and a great value. You are getting a very high performance knife that is done well across the board for well under 100 dollarookies and it's a tiwaian made knife not China so the value is very high when you factor in that. Check one out and I believe you will be happy you did..
Also if you don't like the rat 1 because of its size and as a result awkward ergonomics check out a rat 1.5 it's ergonomics are extremely good for XL glove size hands like myself. I still can't get over well that knife is done in fit and finish and the magnacut is done very well and they didn't skimp on running it soft, my first one texted 64.2 and the 2nd one I bought 63.6. Performance has been excellent and considering i bought the first one in person at the knife store for 84 dollars plus tax and after doing the Hrc test I immediately went and bought a second one and the receipt had 10% off next purchase so it was 76 plus tax.. You can't beat two brand new models in well made knives and in well done magnacut for round about 170 total. Im not a fan of the rat 1 in hand it's not a comfortable knife to me and the geometry of the blade isn't great not saying it's bad it's just not great. The 1.5 is totally different in hand, the ergonomics are great and the cutting geometry is good as it's thinner behind the edge than the rat 1 so it just slices nicer. I had the 1.5 in my pocket on the last day of work before we take out end of year 3 weeks off and I did a crazy amount of cutting at work getting the storage room cleaned out of card board and it was about double my normal cutting and my normal cutting is a huge amount plus it's spent the last roughly 6 days on the homestead with me and I have done a ton of cutting here as well. With all that cutting its still on the factory edge and has only been stropped for about 8 passes each time about 4 times and the edge is still going strong and comes back shaving no problem with just a few stropping passes that's quite impressive considering like my hogue deka in magnacut I get about a week of use with stropping maintenance and by about day 6 of 7 stropping isn't doing it anymore and it's getting time to do a micro bevel with a ceramic rod or getting ready to need a full sharpening. I've tested 6 or 7 magnacut dekas and they are all about the same so it's not like I just got a bad one but Im confident in saying that the magnacut on both my rat 1.5s is done better than any hogue magnacut I have or have tested. I'm telling everyone the rat 1.5 is a winner and a great value. You are getting a very high performance knife that is done well across the board for well under 100 dollarookies and it's a tiwaian made knife not China so the value is very high when you factor in that. Check one out and I believe you will be happy you did..