Wow, that's awesome, what a great gift! Being in the gun and security biz, I decided to collect something different, that being knives. It started when a PMC Company I worked for gave everyone a 1000$ Strider Knife for Xmas, and I've been hooked ever since. I've got some real ww2 NCO Japanese swords and some other historic stuff, but nothing compares to a custom built knife IMO, which is what I spend most of my spare $ on. America has some great ones that's for sure. Great, exceptional work done on this one, not only is it a great gift, but for it to come from a friend and have pics of its construction gives it its real value IMO, which is priceless really. Well done sir!
Anyhow, I hope Stampf's son appreciates it, I know I sure would, that will be something he can carry with him the rest of his days as a Marine and pass on to his own kids a bit of history. I really can't say enough about how cool and thoughtful this is Von <S> .
