also, some completely trivial details for nerds like me who pay attention to useless minutia:
The new one has a slightly larger choil than the one bought at Blade, the new blade is just a hair narrower, has a thicker edge, and feels just slightly heavier (might be a nanometer thicker). wow, what beautiful knives... I just realized, i don't know of any other production knife in S7 steel... I wonder if this is the first?