dogboye
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Grinding it off is doable. And I’ve modified other Busse blades to make them my own. I will say, though, that I have not found the top guard on the TG to be detrimental to my uses. In reality, contrary to almost every other knife I’ve had with a top guard… it works for me.
I CERTAINLY would recommend NOT avoiding the TG because of the top guard. You can try it… and if you don't like it, you have two… maybe three? … options:
1) Sell it. You might take a small loss, since they’re readily available on the website, but maybe not, since yours would be a few weeks quicker;
2) grind or cut the top guard off. Dremel is your friend here… or worst enemy. Patience is a virtue.;
3) send it to someone else to customize for you.
In my case, I’m stoopid enough to dremel the sh** out of anything. But I haven’t found that necessary with the TG. I will admit that I have not tried to dress out a deer with it though. Yet. One of these days.
Gotta add … the hollowness of the TGULB blade is subtle. Very subtle. It isn’t like a Buck knife. Or even, I think, like the TGLB. But it is there.
As you can probably tell by my recent posts on here, I’m a solid TGULB fanboy. For me… it is just about my favorite blade. Maybe my favorite. The NMSFNO is just my grail (which is the one I’d never part with). But 9 times out of 10, for me, I’m going to grab a TGULB. That may change after the first time I dress a deer with it. We’ll see.
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