
If you are reaching with a blade at all while cutting, this is not the knife for you. I like the alignment of the wrist and blade when the knife is open, but the shape of the blade makes cutting very difficult. You can hold the knife in a way that avoids the kick, but then the knife is not as well seated in your hand. In fact, it is something like a little bee sting each time to click the lock into place.

One major problem is the "kick" you get when the lock bar snaps into place. The handle is comfortable, though not as nice as I thought it would be. The design of the Lava, it seems, focused so much on the handle that they forgot there was a knife blade at the other end.
