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The blade has the propensity to curve during manufacturing?/shipment/packing and once that happens it is seemingly impossible to bend it back to be completely straight, rendering it useless for cutting straight lines/blocks in snow profiles for various compression tests. This was pointed out to me by one of my instructors on a Canadian Avalanche Association Operations course, as well as my Patrol Director/Forecaster. From an avalanche operations perspective, it should not be used. If you're a recreationalist and your snow profiles/compression tests aren't being held to an operations level standard, this saw may work just fine for you. It is lightweight and cuts through ice, haven't tested it on wood or bone yet. The sheath can be a bit "sticky".

Lightweight and low profile but it fails to be useful as a saw. The “handle” is slippery and does not have enough shape to hold well with gloves. The saw is flimsy and came with a curve in it which makes for sloppy profiles. And the “blade” is just stamped steel, the teeth themselves are not sharpened so it fails to cut wood efficiently. Better to just buy a replacement Silky blade for a fraction of the price.

Everything goes well. The buying, the shipping and the delivery. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to use the saw this winter. I expect to use it next year.

Great stuff, nice to support Canadian company.

This thing is great. It feels good in the hand like the perfectly balanced and sharp af chef’s knife. I dig that y’all include a tension strap just in case the need arises to carry on the outside of a pack. Snow pits ahoy!

A great tool - versatile and every detail is well thought out and executed.

I use these saws for everything. They are light packable and cut a lot more than snow/ice

A right handed handle is not great if you are left handed.

I love how little room and weight this quality piece of gear takes up in my pack. The bottle opener is a clever addition.

I had an older saw and it got lent to a friend and we'll...... It didn't come home so I bought another. This saw is versatile in that you can use it to cut wood as well as snow. It's built many a fire on ice climbing outings. You can't go wrong with this saw.

Overall very happy with this. I had the old one and it got ‘lost’ on a group tour last season. The new one is pretty much the same. I haven’t used the snow crystal card on the saw so I’m not sure if the black blade is better for that.

No snow saw is going to "blow your mind" or "change the way you tour", but one that works in all conditions and does exactly what you need is solid praise for a utility item. I've owned other saws that didn't blow my mind, but had quirks or ill-conceived features that slowly drove me insane (too long to fit in a day pack, blade deflects when it hits an ice crust, a fancy extension design that clogged and only worked with certain poles) and that came close to being whipped across a slope in a frustrated rage.
The G3's blade is stiff enough to saw through any layers STRAIGHT and PLUMB, it fits in my day pack (30L) with ease, and the handle is designed to attach to virtually anything you could use to extend it: shovel handle, pole, stick, ice axe shaft, that staff-thing that wizards carry...
If you want a saw that was designed by a marketing team, look elsewhere, but if you want a tool that cuts straight columns, has a nicely sized handle for gloved/mittened use, and can be strapped to anything with the ubiquitous tension/ski/Voile straps that are in everyone's pack, this is your weapon. The etched crystal screen is pretty handy for a quick glance at grains as well, eg when you want to examine where a column failed before continuing the test.
Disclosure: I'm a G3 Ambassador, but also put plenty of days on gear professionally and recreationally.