On the tin chirra, i will be honest and say i find a straighter handle and blade as settling right into my western mind as hand to glove.....also perhaps something thinner.....but the more i handle my tin chirra, the more i appreciate what it does with so little effort....and as for the showpiece it is, i took the KLVUK, the tarwar, and the tin chirra to a shop today whose owner is a knife guy.....he was impressed with how much knife a humble KLVUK is compared to most anything else by anybody else stateside, in awe of the tarwar, and then when he pulled out the tin chirra, he just sighed and stated "now THIS is what i always thought a real kukhuri should be.".....and i could not argue with him.....