LOL,....better get new glasses and switch to tea or coffee!

The fact is "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", as they say. Since I "be holderin" it, and have also "looked and looked",.... I can say I still can't make out no damn pigs ear in there!

Also,....most "best use" tools aren't designed to just look pretty. A good hammer has a great feel in hand, is properly heat treated, and of sufficient weight and balance to get the job dome with minimal effort. But it's also no beauty queen.

The changes i made were not to "pretty up" the knife, but were purely utilitarian in design and execution. No one can really argue that a thinner blade with less pronounced grind angles will not turn out to be a better food prep slicer and woodcraft "tool", as long as the steel and heat treat are done properly. I tend to look at this is I started with a good chassis, but made some changes to the frame for this specific use. Were I making a whittling knife,....I would have gone further with the thinning and shortened the blade. But that was not my intended use.

BTW,...there IS "beauty" with understated simplicity mixed with efficiency,....for that is the perfect tool. That's never to be achieved probably,....and I'm certainly not there yet,....but i'm closer for my intended use than before.

An added bonus is I'm not adverse to actually carry and use the knife. It's already got it's first scratch!