>>2482646As far as I'm concerned, the only time a finger choil makes any sense at all is on a large fixed blade chopper, where the blade is so front-heavy that it is incredibly cumbersome to do fine cutting tasks like carving etc. The choil allows you to get your hand closer towards the centre of the blade, making it more balanced and, in turn, much easier to wield. Only inexperienced knife makers think that finger choils were designed to get your hand closer to the cutting edge. They weren't. They were originally designed to balance large front-heavy blades to aid in fine cutting tasks. Knives of 5-6 inches or less don't have a front-heavy problem. If anything, smaller blades have a handle-heavy problem, completely the opposite, with a finger choil exacerbating the problem. As the picture illustrates above, finger choils on small knives are utterly pointless.
