I like your knife! It may look a little strange to some folks, but to me, it is a very practical color. I can't tell you how many miles I have had to walk back in to retreive my hunting knife next to a gutpile where I had left it in all the excitement. This one would be hard to miss on the ground if you dropped it or started to leave it. Great Job! Good luck on your force early retirement. Keep making knives, you obviously love to do it and are good at it. It would be a shame to quit. Try and look at it as an opportunity, maybe this is your chance to go into knife making full time.
Bob H.