Thanks for your generous offer to the BladeForums community.
I started off collecting handmade tacticals during the mid to late 90's boom when I worked at a boutique gunstore that sold high end blades. But in my older years now I like the simpler traditional knives. I'm way more sensible now with more self control due to more responsibilities and cant afford a huge custom collection like I once had.
You were the first maker I noticed on this forum using more modern steels and those beautiful full micarta scales with stainless liners. But I decided to start slow.
I ended up getting a less expensive, lighter, non liner front pocket shadow by newcomer GENE WISEMAN, whom I'm sure you're familiar with. I feel the next logical step would be one of your fine specimens as a "more refined companion" to my utilitarian first slippie.
A free one as a prize would be incredible, but regardless, I will one day posses one of your fine knives.
Here's a pic of my Wiseman in orange G-10, it's a great light well made custom knife but it's lonely and really needs a cousin in micarta ;-)