It is an original Ka-Bar, do not worry! Ka-Bar makes this knife but produced in Taiwan. Does not matter. Here you get a real outdoor, use and bush craft knife for relatively little money. The blade is really strong and is also tough jobs to survive, but it was done so. The handle is very comfortable to hold, especially men with big hands will be happy that you have a good grip. For chopping, chopping wood, sharpening and many other works is where a great tool used genaus the CORRECT. Safe even for people who are looking for something for self-defense is a good choice. Delivery sharpness is very neat. But I would anyone who wants to operate with this knife works as batoning, recommend it to a spherical grinding turn grind.