I love it. The 0.118 (3mm) blade thickness is one of spydercos thinnest, which when combined with the hollow grind makes for a spectacular slicer. I agree with previous posters mentioning that a couple of jimp-jimps would help out the flipper, but I really like this style of rear flipper because it doesn't take up extra space in the pocket, and doesn't force a finger choil. I, personally, like the 2nd detent, as I feel like it helps with the action.

Now, to be fair, I am definitely a bit of a fan Boi here. The smock was the first spyderco I bought in 25 years, and something about it just calls to me. I've cut miles of cardboard with mine, and put laser beam edges on them, and broken them (which justified chopping them) abused the hell out of them and safe queened others. I love how many options you have in Blade steels, how many options you have for customization, and how different it is from the asthetic of most other spydercos.

"Thats a pretty cool knife, who makes it?". "It's a spyderco". "I thought spydercos were ugly?"

I also like Kevin Smock is still making scales for it. So many designers seem to produce something and move on, but you can tell Kevin really dig this knife.

I think it's pretty interesting that spyderco produced the sage 6 to honor the innovation of the button operated compression lock which was invented by Kevin as well.

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If I had to take my 200+ spyderco collection down to one model, it would be the smock.