Joe,

I'll be polite with this reply as I possibly can, I think the lack of comments on your massacre...errr...customization of a model 28 looks like crap to me, and totally unnecessary as shown in comparison to the model 26. Absolutely no lines, and you don't appear to be choking up any further than a choil would keep you from anyways...You could have ordered a 26 with a BPH and achieved the end results. But hey, it's now your knife, u paid for the right to do with it whatever you seem necessary to achieve the desired result...so, choose away...IMO

You are a jeweler by trade correct? I have a deal with my jeweler here in Orlando after trying to polish my wedding ring here at the shop and almost losing a diamond...he doesn't work on his Randalls and I no longer buff my jewelery....

---DW---