Really love my stag handled 8 in above posts, but stumbled upon this new one last week and fell in love. Maroon Micarta is my favorite handle material. Paired with brass and the fact this one was O1 made it a must have.
Immediately upon receiving, I knocked the top edge off and smoothed it out. Three reasons I do this, in order of importance:
1 & 2: I whittle and carve a lot. Having a top edge would make it more difficult to do the finer work, and I choke up a lot, so I'd exponentially increase the number of times I casually walk past the family on my way to the master bathroom to glue and patch myself back up.
2: New York is the birthplace of irrational behavior and has this thing about double edged knives. Yep, even a Ka-Bar with top edge sharpened is double edged. So, by taking off that edge, I leave no game warden or police officer any earthly reason to take possession of my Randall.
Thinned the pigeon herd at one of my local dairy farm permissions. I like to take the breast meat out of a few to feed my feral cats at home, who in turn, take care of all critters that may mess with my garden.