It's hard to say whether I like them or not. The finish and look are high quality for sure. But the overall tolerances seem a little underwhelming. I've taken apart and reassembled my knife 3 times now, and I still have a few problems. First the stock screws in my v2 deka, do not seem to thread in well. The screws bind and do not tighten in all the way, aside from the pivot screw. I've moved all 6 screws around and can not get them to tighten in all the way. Secondly, the opening action of the blade is super stiff. No matter how my I back off the pivot screw. I think if the screws tightened all the way down, the scales would like up perfectly, and would eliminate the crummy action. But they don't, so it can't. I do wanna put most of the blame on hogue, since I've had a few hit and misses with them and some of their other knives.