Are you familiar with Snecx?
He started designing folding knives in the last few years, I believe to address issues he didn’t see anyone was addressing.
He only has a handful of designs that have produced a very limited number of knives, but I would definitely suggest scouring his Instagram as there is a wealth of knowledge there.
You may be able to bounce some ideas off of each other, or who knows, maybe a collaboration?
Instagram link
https://www.instagram.com/snecx/?hl=en
3rd party reviewer of one of his blades.
Feel free to remove the links, or I can if needed. I don’t see him as a competitor as he is mainly a designer with
extremely limited, fairly expensive and hard to obtain folding knives.
Edit - the reason I posted this was similar to the reason I’m glad you got your hands on a Shiro. Just to throw out some ideas and info for future CPK bendy knives