I picked one up. In the minutes I spent looking at the carbon fibre one at BHQ, it went from available to sold-out. Only the black G-10 was left, so I settled on that.
It's a very nice knife, well worth the mere $30 ($35.55 after shipping+tax). It's absolutely symmetrical, something which many, many higher priced slipjoint (both traditional and modern) knives I've seen aren't. Handle is slightly rounded (the carbon fibre one looks flat, don't know if it is or not) and comfortable, and just long enough for all 4 fingers of my medium-large hands to grab.
Pull is a bit light for my preferences, the only gripe I can really have about it. Maybe a 3½-4 (on a scale of 1-10, 5 being an ALOX SAK), and easily pinchable. The pull is light, but it's OK for what the knife is. One advantage of the light pull is that I can actually open the knife one-handed, albeit rather awkwardly. It has a half-stop, but it's only slightly more than a slight speedbump on opening, and barely but adequately functional as a safety for closing one-handed. Rather than a kick like many slipjoints have, there's an internal stop-pin preventing the blade from hitting the spring upon closing with zero possibility of bounce.
Blade is flat ground, pretty thin behind the edge, and shaving sharp out of the box. 12C27N is perfectly good for this type of knife, especially at this price, and since it's not exactly a hard-use knife, the fine grain and ease of sharpening of this steel might be preferred by some (myself included) for simplicitiy in maintaining a razor sharp edge for daily light use. Zero side-to-side blade wobble and spring is flush with the handles in open and closed position (a hair proud at half-stop, but that's irrelevant).
Well worth the cost from BladeHQ, but I'd also say it's worth the under $50 price (shipped) from Artisan if you absolutely must have the blue or ghost G-10 or CF that are sold-out at BHQ.