By the way, I asked Ron Skaggs to engrave this knife at least seven months before it was due to arrive from Randall. I told him I wanted to send a deposit to assure a place in line, but Ron was willing to give me a place in line without the deposit. I was braced to expect the whole process to take maybe a year, but was lucky that it was less than that...

==> Here's a closeup (a quick, hand-held, flash shot) of Ron's work. Note that he "grew" one of the leaves on the collar up to the hilt, to have continuity.

-Steve