I have to admit to slowly developing a fondness for the Swayback platform. This particular edition is my "fave"...in that it's a jackknife with stag scales. Case did a very good job of selecting the stag. It's interesting that sometimes...on stag-handled knives...we see that not much care was given when selecting the stag. While I'm not going to be super upset when the stag on both sides doesn't look "similar", I DO like it when they have some consistency in color.