believe me, Im already trying to convince people to blade delete their angus or do blade swaps. The nice thing that the angus has is that neat shield, shame no endcaps. But if it does feel slimmer in hand Id be surprised. I'd like to see maybe that ss barlow clip swapped to the angus frame, or perhaps that barlow slip swapped to the older 86 with end cap. Ive seen people alter the bladeforums 2019 with blade swaps, so Im sure itll likely happen in the long run. But you lose that awesome tang stamp. I actually havent seen the anguses opened up all the way, but I hope the tang code is still on the secondary. That was another feature I really enjoyed of the old 86s with the tang code on the secondary as many of my blade deletes have the code on the main and it shows.
This is the first barlow that I like. I have always felt the Case barlow is too puny to be useful, I don't have a GEC 15 and my 77 is just OK (maybe it's the spear blade?). The #86 has been my favorite pattern and this year has only solidified that opinion. 
