Thank you for the great read and congrats on your badge.
Steinar. It HAD bad peening. Now it's fine. As for weak retention... well, not much I can do about it. And as to putting it in a 72-hour kit, I can say that it would serve any sane need for a blade for 72 hours. It will even take a bit of a beating. I did a fair amount of batoning with it. That's WAY beyond what this thing ought to face. My only concern is edge retention, and that's only with a lot of cardboard cutting. It handled half an hour of carving on hardwood without a problem. Would it be my preferred tool? No. I have better tools, and I'll be using them if I need to. BUT... if I have given away my best tools to other folks, and come to this thing, it's light years better than nothing. I feel confident in saying that it'll handle three days of fairly hard use. And if your options are this or a fist full of nothing...