I always thought they were rather steep for a large slab of relatively soft 1095, but they work, although many griping posts as for disappointment by those expecting a better knife per se...but knife was only a small part of jobs it expected to do.

In looking around, I was suprised by how little advertised for sale now....found zero on ebay, about zero retailers, not even a quick check of Amazon, and found only the Sheffield cutlery group in the UK, and knifeoutlet here who I think order direct from same, advertising them at all.

Just too plain for today's market, or maybe just needs white stencils on the parkerize of mystic runes skull and crossbones on the sides to catch up with all the latest? I sure wish anyone made one as my old one, i would buy it in a heartbeat.

Glad to hear you enjoyed the read. Happy to ramble.