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Slice ghoul!
To begin with I look into any knife with a name that hearkens to pop culture esp rock music, and Baba Yaga is also from Emerson Lake and Palmer's live album of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition. Then bewitched by the awesome blocky design and cool stubby blade that's not too small. Not all office items need to be as thin as a pen, any gents/dress/office goods that are in the "disruptive" spirit or at least pushing the envelope somehow. I wouldn't have gone for the lack of finger-stopper on the rectangular handle but happily it involves a not-too-big flip tab. I didn't really need more m390 but how thin the blade gets plus a basically "scary sharp" factory edge makes for the ghoulish sliciness, which I'd like to think is the basis of the name, ya don't mess with the old lady who lives in a house that can grow legs and walk around lol. Nor does your thumb get a break for lockbar access but form-over-function is sometimes in order, I say. I love the angular contouring on the handle; the yergos are sweet esp for no harder than I need to bear down on a literal Baba Yaga of slicing. Also love the diminutive clip after a little de-stiffen. Neat lanyard hole too. Mine had blade-centering issues was the only QC concern, except plus if you don't like the white fuzz on the micarta pretty dry, white and pulpy. There's no steel liner on the show-side scale but I'm not worried since it doesn't flex and this is a soft-use/light-duty product. It passes a detent "shake" test, and the actual deployment is a pretty snappy and satisfying click, even though the blade wouldn't center after a couple tries with the paper wedge. Flushing blade/handle thumb jimps, a little precision jimp further up the spine, and best of all 3/4 of an inch worth of pinky jimps for pinky grip, for your jimps. Colorway choices woulda been nice but I can at least see the intent of the "forest" green for Baba Yaga living in the woods. Will watch designer Keanu's career with great interest since this thing is "wicked"