Glad to hear you like it bruce.
I almost think it would kind of look cool with a really blotchy finish...
with all dark spots it would almost look kind of like urban camo or... something.
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glad to hear you like it too jackell and JAWilder, and that it will get some good use.

I personally find my scrapyards the easiest knives to sharpen and I'm not even good at sharpening (I only have half of a fine arkansas stone, some 120 grit emery paper, and a kabar sheath that I sanded a portion of paint off of to make a ghetto leather strop) and I can gt them to shave with just an arkansas stone... sometimes it take a little leather strop though.
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