[RosieCotton]

Yep. I'll take what I can get...

It still costs too much for something that takes ten mintues to do, IMO.

*grumble grumble*

I am persuing your idea of having some of my story from another angle. Just a bit of outlining for now, but I wonder...

The only catch would be that it would make it harder to keep any secrets from the reader (as if I'll have any, but...), since the main guy knows pretty much everything the gal wouldn't. So...guess the thing to decide is if it's worth the trade-off: losing the mystery in order to have more action and humor.

[JenB]

What if you did his part in third person and don't show everything he thinks? Might that help? Make it more distant than the other POV.

[300winmag]

I now have 15 Camillus knives on hand now, and am trying for another 20. This knife will be our Hobbit Hole "limited standard" knife, limited to those troops who actually need one.

I originally rated the knife as "A-", due to the smoothness of the micarta handles. Today, I found a needle file that exactly matches the grooves in the tang. The handles are ground down, but material still extends above those grooves.

I filed down the handle to match the square notches in the tang. This made for a HUGH increase in grip security. I still have two other large areas to do on this particular knife, but I can see it will work out beautifully. Here's a comparison with an unmodified knife:

This modification lets me increase the knife's grade to a solid "A". It will take me about two hours per knife to do it right, but I won't begrudge that effort for our troops. Actually, it makes me happy to make something good even better.

I'll post pictures as soon as the first knife is engraved.