As a collector, this auto is a finely made knife as are all the Benchmade knive's I own. The lock is precise, the knife opens and locks with a snap and the machining is top notch. It appears Benchmade has come up with a "California legal" automatic, the blade being just short of 2", something that really doesn't interest me, since I don't live there. I look at it as purely a gentleman's knife, where it sits nicely in the pocket, ready to open an envelope, cut a piece of twine, clean a fingernail, that sort of thing. It's really too small to do much else, IMHO, and if I carried it, I'd remove the clip, since it's also superflous for a pocket knife.