For the economy minded who like the concept, have a grinder, or not allergic to hand sanding with paper wrapped around a tube, a decent facsimile of the secure grip scallops could be added to the current ag tool pig sticker as still made by Ontario, and same convex edge applied with same sandpaper on a soft mousepad backer on a flat surface. Many a trooper went to war with exactly such a pig sticker by Case or Union Cutlery/Kabar. Trooper and commando carrying pig stickers was not a metaphor, but a fact, and remains so to this day.



As for getting Greg to make me a paratrooper, cannot think of a reason he could not, providing he had a strip of O1 proper thickness and wide enough, otherwise, a wait on that to arrive. But, the question remains, what would I do with it, after it arrived. I am well past jumping out of planes with my hair on fire, and although it appears to be a really fast way to cut my shroud lines, coming and going, and everybody else's, too, am drawing a blank, otherwise. But that not helped by not knowing size and weight of blade.



Rather than post again, and besides, how many times can a guy post pictures of his ONE knife, anyhow? Just a shot of knife after a couple of days using for everything, yard to kitchen, entire meals. Also redoing convex my way, simply because I cannot do it his way. It was not dull in the least, but did not want to catch myself out wanting/needing the knife and it dull and needing a lot of work. Most times, when I do such edge work, am rewarded with a real hair popping edge on good steel such as this O1, which it did not have on arrival, while this time, spent most of effort getting it back to as sharp as Greg had it, in the first place.



As for why guys tote such stickers, the very limited planned use is obvious, and if adding to loadout something of limited utility, why lug a heavy fancy version, when far lighter is just as effective and far cheaper (and, honestly, often tougher)?