I hesitate to jump in here and expose myself to your craziness
it's clear that you have the Cold Steel hots.
The one fixed blade I own is an original Tanto which I obtained about five years ago from "Phat Phil" Engeldrum in settlement of a decade old debt.
I'm not especially interested in fixed blades, but I've always had a hankering for a Tanto and this was an opportunity to get one, since the likelihood of seeing the cash was slender at best.
I'll have to dig it out and photograph it, but it has the brass guard and pommel, and a cord-wrapped handle. Phil told me at the time that it had been made in Ventura, California.
Dean, jus' visitin' from
The Gun Zone