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Shaped. I know the metal sticks out a little along the handle, but not enough to be annoying. It fits so nicely that I don't want to mess around with it more. :P

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Was playing with ideas to decorate the blade. If I do something like this I think I'll round off the spine so it arcs smoothly to the tip instead of having that kink in there.