tom, the width i'm referring to on this one is the narrowest part of the blade closest to the handguard. yes it looks rather narrow, but it's compensated by the thickness (1/4'') at this part of the blade.
Wow, then; that's particularly talibesque of it; the wider waist on LabanTayo's is probably more typical of tenegre, in my experience. Laban Tayo, what's the gap below the gaurd about on yours?