At first I was hesitant about the top guard, but now I'm kind of looking forward to doing all my detail cutting with the guard. It's not like this is the first bushcraft knife ever to have one.
Even if I didn't like the top guard in any way, I would have a hard time justifying spending ten dollars and using Dan's valuable time just to have a super machine do what would take me a minute or two.

Dan mentioned that he made the Deregulator so that people wouldn't have to mess with their knives.
Unfortunately, that's half the fun. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/loopy.gif" alt="" />