I don’t think it will be that much extra work. Remember, they don’t shine ‘em up by hand the slow long way like most people do, they have benchgrinder buffers and all that. I don’t think it would take more than a few hours per knife. Of course, if you had a few hundred knives, that’s gonna add up and take a long time, but it shouldn’t add that much extra cost I don’t think.

I don’t want micarta on Dogs! It’d be the Swamp all over again! I don’t really like wood either. I’d rather have res-c or micarta. You could always mod one and make your own micarta or wood handle though. Might be a neat project. Wolf at Swamp Rat is in the process of modding his HRLM. He rounded the butt, and will be putting custom handles and filework on it. I thought it would be neat to do something like that, but I don’t have the skill for it.