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1 can its blade shape cut slices from a birthday cake properly?
2 can I use it as an edc tool?
3 does it make a good fishing and water knife?

1. Possibly but the ergos aren't ideal for it.
2. sure. I always keep a hawkbill in LFP (usually serrated though both are effective). If you were hiking and got caught in some brush, a hawkbill is probably your best bet for clearing that away. Big help if you stumble into a bramble patch.
3. It's not as rustproof as the Salt series but if you rinse and dry it after uses it almost certainly will be okay. It's got a little heft and would sink like a stone if dropped, but there are lanyards and such for that.

Just to add, this is a great gardening knife. Also, it is often supposed that the hawkbill shape was invented for sailors, to quickly cut rope as the claw-shaped blade won't slip off the rope easily.