Another point is even within 91mm family, new and older blade has different thickness as well. The older blade, AFAIK, should be 0.4mm thicker than the new blade and has different liner than the modern 91mm SAKs.
The crowning tool in the 93mm range for me is the in-line awl - brilliant
Only the tang was 0.4mm thicker. In my opinion, I doubt that makes the blade stronger, if the spine was not thicker.Some say it looks nicer with the thick tang, and I can understand that. The new liner is definitely stronger than the old one (again, in my opinion), as I understand that aluminium plate with stamped indents is stronger than the same aluminium plate with no indents.
The old tang looks better to me. But that's all, as I've never seen a blade broken off at the tang, whether thick or thinner.I'd like to see a newer stamped liner and its indents. I have a Climber with an obvious indent right at the end of the liner where it meets the large blade. There's a small notch between the liner and the scale. I've always wondered it it was a manufacturing flaw since none of my other thinner tang knives have it.
Good post Piper I'd add that the bottle opener is larger and thicker than on the 91mm - even more useful for pryingThe crowning tool in the 93mm range for me is the in-line awl - brilliant
The notch is there for purposes of compensating for tang thickness... The moon shaped indentation is for purposes of allowing more room for the tools to open and close...