In that pic I was still waiting for the bead I ordered to arrive. I later posted it, along with my S35VN RAT with its new scale and new tails on both after taking their beads and some cord up north to do that work at camp. Here's another pic from that trip...
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...and one more of that converted combo-edge AUS8 Red RAT 1, carried today after my son come down to the Cape to do the climbing for me as we're finishing up some roof details over the next few weekends.
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, back to your comment from a while back regarding my son loving the RAT I, like yours, that put I together for him....
I gave to him last night when he got here--it's his birthday today--and he was most pleased with it. Here it is in the nice Ace Case I found in my stuff that I passed along with the knife.
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