edit: going on day three of playing around with this knife, I've settled on breaking in the brown standard grind first.
not sure I have ever really enjoyed a knife like this before (of course I haven't, as this is my first experience with JK's cutlery)
I forgot how pleasant it is to watch a watch patina develop on o1, especially when it's finished like this blade. it may be my favorite (which I believe I say whenever I get to experience a new-to-me kind of steel's stainless-ness and there's patina involved)
and the drop point continues to grow and grow on me. one day I may have to order a custom friction folder, similar to the one pictured above
a superb winner with the blade. o1 may not be the best there is; there is good reason so many people like to use it to make high quality knives. it shines here, and it'll be a treat to get to know on the sticks and stones
and, did I mention, it is a substantial knife
the brown micarta, even at this level of finishing, it is quite a pleasure to gaze into
one of these, with a tweaked grind, same blade profile, the blade finished to mirror/high polish, and the brown micarta scales polished up a lot and contoured a tad differently (similar to picture posted earlier in here), and finished a bit more than the plain model...
oh, that would be nice
the thought of a decade's worth of yearly applications of tung oil and wax built up as layers, the sheen off that polished brown micarta, its sparkles and its shine!