Knife modification - Cold Steel Shinobu tanto folder

Sometimes i buy used older knives to restore, but also as practice material to try out certain idea's.

The tanto point on this used & worn 1980's Cold Steel Shinobu folder was made a bit pointier with the help of my Tormek T7, then sharpened & polished on a first generation Wicked Edge.

The straight edge was done freehand on Paper Wheels with diamond compounds.

The rubber grips were also re-attached to the liners (as they had partially come loose)

How these knives look from the factory (pics from the net):

How my knife looks now:

A test i sometimes do just for the heck of it is to see how far from the point of holding one of my chest hairs can still be whittled root-to-tip (reverse hair-whittling) while holding the hair at the root end only.

The edge on this modified Cold Steel folder could do it at around 1.18 inch (about 3.0 cm)

Now i don't own a BESS tester, so i have no idea where this would be on their scale.

Imo the Shinobu model would be a good candidate to bring back, of course with a Tri-Ad lock, a more modern steel type, a better synthetic rubber handle (Resiprene-C if possible) or even canvas Micarta grips, and maybe even a pointier tip