something you might consider Recon, there are orders that are cancelled at Busse so Amy may have a different color combo lying around for you to pick up. That happened with my ASH1, I screwed up and ordered the wrong combo so when it showed up Amy gratiously let me send it back. I gave her a list of different colors I wanted and she happened to have one there ready to go. Since you ordered black on black there may not have been any? Worth a look, the blade is defintely sweet and worth every penny. As for Noss test and this never dying toughness issue, it makes sense to me that the FFBM had higher marks, it is .320 thk whereas the S6 is .25. Not saying one is tougher than the other just making a case that the only fair comparison test both steels should be the same thickness.