Finally!
The WWII is in my possession! Guess what, it been in my apartment building for a month! I go downstairs to pay the super of visit for another package I and we go into his store room where he says "oh, yeah, since I haven't seen you in a while I forgot to give you this..." while handing me a long package with the HI address on it! I said to myself, we'll this guys head might be a good testing site for my new WWII, but I thanked him, reminded myself that we all do not-so-smart things sometimes, and bade him a good day.
I opened the package and proceeded to have a very enjoyable hour handling my new WWII. Awesome, to say the least, and very well made. Perfect for my handsize, I dare say I could have gotten the 20 inch. Much, much lighter and handier than I thought it would be. I will be able to do work with this knife. It's not at all clumsy or off balanced in an unintentioned way.
All's well that end's better
Please express my apologies to Yangdu, seeing that I called her and let her a message requesting the status of my order. All very polite, but completely unnecessary, seeing that they sent it out March 15th! Over a month it's just been sitting there wondering why no one loved it....
It has a good home now.
-Willy