Drac:

Please don't think I was questioning the quality of your materials. Having seen other samples of your work, I felt sure that someone capable of producing the knives you make would use only the best available materials.

I think you and I have had a conversation before about utility vs. decorative. I'm all about utility, but like you, I don't believe that just because a knife is beautiful doesn't mean that it shouldn't be used! (Okay, with exceptions like the stunner you just posted...HA!).

Here's another tweak that (I hope) goes to Ryan Ross' suggestion about eliminating the shoulder near the but of the handle.

Let me know if this is at all helpful. I'd be happy to help out with additional tweaks to sketches.

SM