Lol @ Thrustus. That would be a GREAT Klingon knife.
I don't think anything in marcinek's response is sarcastic. Everything in there looks to be something you should seriously consider.
1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (basically what marcinek said in Latin, same gist). If you like it, that's fine. Most everyone else on here thinks that it belongs in the "Tacticlol" thread, myself included. But hey, to each his own, latin aside.
2. For a gift for your father, given the response you've gotten on here, which is pretty much universally towards the idea that the knife is essentially useless, I do also hope you know what your father would pick. Because I can tell you for a fact that if I gave that to my father, he would hate it. Blade Forums is not the mall-ninja crowd. And most of us hate anything that reeks of mall ninja.
3. There are a lot of very knowledgeable and respectable folks on here that think that you will have a very hard time using that knife in the bush. Isn't that worth paying attention to? Either way, I think it's probably worth the warning that if you plan on depending on a knife, please bring a backup. No sarcasm, just we'd prefer not to read some story about a dead Norwegian with a Klingon knife.
That being said the finish, for what it is, looks well done. I prefer simple, functional blade shapes myself, so seeing that happen to a nice piece of Damascus kinda makes me sad. But since you love it, that's great, and you should be able to get a nice gift for your father. But maybe have him design his own knife?
-edit- Now that I think about it, PLEASE send your design to the folks making the new Star Trek movies. When they do get Klingons in there, how cool would it be to see that bad boy in the hands of a Klingon warrior. It's a better looking design for a Klingon than most of the usual Klingon knives. Or maybe send it to United Cutlery. If you're gonna make a crazy-looking fantasy knife, why not try to get some mileage out of it. Honestly, if you'd titled the thread "Fantasy knife" instead of "tracker knife," I think the response would have been a bit different.
