First, I'm not taking sides - and I'm not an HJ specialist, nor do I claim any special expertise. But off and on I've been tracking this topic for a while now, and here are some pictures I saw back in 2008 (?) which I thought were interesting. With the bottom one being a broken "solid red diamond" - but is it solid? Because in the image I see what looks to me like pebbling, but the "pebbles" look like they are very small diameter pebbles. With the other three being an HJ knife with a broken grip. But in looking at the pictures I think that it got broken using it as a hammer, not trying to pry out the diamond. I also don't see any glue. But does it wiggle - who knows? To me it seems to be going to a lot of trouble to swap out a diamond to gain what kind of advantage with a damaged knife that has been both used and abused? FP
