Why they didn't make the double guard out of steel covered with res-c I have no idea. It would have been simple. It seems as though the double guard was just an after thought.
+1 forgive my terrible Paintchop, but something along the lines of this.
I like what I am seeing here.
Men you can't trust, women you can't trust, beasts you can't trust, but Bussekin steel you can trust