I had one of these a long time ago, and I loved it, but my brother wanted it bad and he was off to live in Thailand so I let him take it. I recently got the itch for one again, and got in touch with Tom Kyle, the maker. He invited me up to his shop as I'm local to him, and we had a great chat. Well, I left with this baby, and I'm ordering another tomorrow. Tom makes some great knives, and he's a real cool guy who's very generous with his time. And, the price is really good for a custom knife at half this quality. This thing is fit and finished nice! I snapped these while I was bored today. Wait till you guys see the next one I'm having built....it's even sweeeeeeeter looking!!