Thanks for the feedback, guys. Appreciate that.
Lorien: Design is general purpose utility/combat/fighting knife. Kitchen, woods, street, you name it. Let's start with the handle. You've your jimping. Four locations - spine dish, front of the handle, palm heel, and pinky. Great traction without being violently aggressive. Handle texture, same thing - extremely grippy, but doesn't abrade you or your clothing. The knife needed to work in all major grips, and it does - hammer, inverted edge, edge in and edge out icepick, and FMA. FMA is like hammer, except the thumb dropped into the dish on the spine. When you do this, not only does the knife naturally point wherever your thumb goes, but this also naturally closes up the palm heel area of your hand and fingers, which translates into maximum hand contact with that handle, and thus the strongest grip possible. If you're a hammer grip guy, the front of the handles are contoured to provide a nice thumb rest. Guard is slightly larger than it needs to be for extra user safety, and that choil between the guard and the blade will accommodate up to about a 1/2" ferrocerium fire rod. The jimping in the thumb dish on the spine provides great purchase not only for your thumb, but for a baton, your palm heel for power assisted cuts, and is also great for trapping and opponent control in edge out icepick grip. In any grip, there is ample pommel sticking out the non-blade side of the hand for opponent control and striking. Finally, the blade. If this were a straight up fighter, I'd have gone with a wharny blade, but they have disadvantages. The more acute, the better as stabbing, but it's also a weak tip. And a straight edge wharny kind of sucks for utility work, because you really only ever use the very tip of the blade. And upswept tips tend to roll off the material being cut vs biting in like a wharny. So I sought a compromise - I gave this blade just a touch of belly for general utility, retained the wharny drop tip for bite, and used a more obtuse angle at the tip for strength. And I wanted the package to be low profile for how I carry, which is IWB appendix with shock cord attached to the sheath. So it's optimized for that. The icing on the cake? The point of balance is right at the index finger when utilizing non-icepick grips.
Whew!!! There, I think that about sums it up.
