LOL..."Junk Yard Knives"...that will get you off to a good start! Anyway..welcome Queulat...as it happens I have just been re-profiling a convex edge on a Dumpster Mutt D/C and a Yard Keeper Sand Combat finish this morning...personally for fine work I think the larger choil in the DMDC lets you get more comfortable and close to the edge for a chest assisted power grip...the Yard Keeper still has a little choil and like you I think the blade would benefit with coming right back to the handle...because it is neither one or the other...you cannot choke up as comfortably as with the DMDC...but it is still some distance from the handle to the edge. Just my opinion though...