Agreed. The ONLY thing even close (from the factory) was an overpriced (quality knife but pricey for me) early production Ek bowie.

It's too bad knife manufacturers (as a whole) don't put that kind of attention to detail into thier finished product(s) as I'm sure they would receive repeat business from consumers.

In all fairness, I recently handled a Bark River (Teddy model, IIIRC) that was pretty darned close to HD's work.

I can only surmise that Bark River sends their knives to Horn Dog before shipping them out.