Forgot to mention, but if I were you, I would ask the Captain for a piece of custom Sambar Stag. If you look at pictures of the 12-9 #14 grind on the internet, you see a lot of differences in the Stag. You never now what you are gonna get from the Randall shop. I never seen an ugly handle, but there are a lot of differences between them. Custom supplied Stag costs extra, but if this is your dream knife, I would do it.