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If you give respect, you get respect, simple recipe. By the way, nice picture and good looking knife. What's the handle material?
I'm curious about KA-BAR's quality control process. Guys like me cut syrofoam a couple of hundred times, check the edge. Maybe do the brass rod test, although I've never though to much of it. Cut free hanging rope, 2x4 cutting, etc. What does a modern factory do in lieu of these simple tests?
Thanks! That handle material is just KA-BAR's Standard Kraton, grippy, and comfortable. All in all good stuff. To add fuel to the fire and just as some additional information KA-BAR has released certain unique updated models of the standard F/U with varying blades. These in turn have thicker guards, and a slightly thicker tang. However, stock/spine thickness is the same. Just walked out and snapped a couple pics for you. This is the KA-BAR 1211 F/U VS the KA-BAR 1245 8" tanto F/U.
Here is the tang difference 1211 F/U on the left, 1245 Tanto on the right. The difference is slight but its there. I guess you could say the 1245 is more "complete." The 1211 is a little more forward in the pic but I think you get the idea.
And the guard difference.