I'm so wonderfully excited to get my hands on one of these. Holes or no, the thumb stud version is going to be mine once they release, you can be sure about that. This knife is pretty much everything I look for in an EDC. It's small, sleek, smooth, and fairly plain without being boring. My job is with the public, so having a flashy flipper knife that opens fast is kind of iffy since it can scare some people, and a lot of my more recent purchases have been flipper knives since they're becoming quite popular. It'll be very nice to get a standard thumb stud only blade in my collection for a change, there's something quite theraputic about opening a blade nice and slow with thumb studs, especially if it has a smooth action. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for a release date on these, I can't wait to own one.