USMC Full Tang coming?

I like it, but have a few questions about it.
How is the pommel attached, I don't see any pin?
Where is the point of balance?
Seems to me it would be even more handle heavy than say my D2 version. 🤔

Edit:- Since writing the above I have got to handle one at the local dealer.
I don't like it as much now.
What I do like is:- The choil is nice, but would have liked it a touch deeper.
The straight clip, which gives a stronger tip, but would like it concave just to keep with aesthetics and tradition.
The Guard is narrower than that on my D2, so is the pommel, very nice.

What I don't like is the handle, specifically the shape, which is reminiscent of the Mk1, not the Mk2.
For me, the palm swell is too far forward, and the the G-10? is heavy and slippery.
A handle with canvas micarta scales, like the Hiderer Full tang, would have been better.
For me, all Ka-bar have done with this knife is made a longer, full tang Mk1,sigh. :(
 
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The guard should be bigger to better protect the hand and prevent it from sliding onto the blade.
The choil looks ok, but I would prefer if it had a bit of an angle to the edge. A straight drop like that, or worse a full on finger choil, can/will catch clothing if it's stabbed all the way to the guard into a person, causing the blade to be stuck.
While I never needed to stab anyone with any of mine, mostly used for opening MREs, cutting sector stakes, chopping small limbs into fire wood (while playing OPFOR, and in a bad ice storm that trapped us in the field,) and small branches and vegetation for camouflage, one of it's potential uses was for when everything went completely wrong.

I'm also paranoid about my hand slipping onto the blade after losing some feeling and range of movement in my right index finger after cutting it to, or very close to, the bone when my hand slipped onto the blade of my BK16.
 
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Just saw this on the local dealers site. (AU$379.00 pre order only)
Posted here to help others know what we are looking at.
(Answered my question I had about how pommel is attached.)
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Anyone see this on a dealer site yet? Thanks in advance.
 
GeofS said:
Anyone see this on a dealer site yet? Thanks in advance.
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I won't be surprised if it's not at dealers until late next week.
OTOH, smoke has the dust 2 on sale if you need to scratch a new knife itch
 
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