I agree crutchtip. To illustrate my point I have put 3 photos of the Astro together. The top is Gordon Cooper's Astro, the middle is a mid '60's brown micarta, the bottom is from the current catalog. The top 2 are very close, which a "replica" should be. The bottom is similar, but not a replica. I'm glad that Randall knives dropped the replica advertisement years ago, because the bottom knife imo is not a replica.