The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I'm home, oh man I have made a nice blade, that made my day
Sorry to read that, I hope he gets well. If I can do any thing just let me know, if he speaks English I can give him a call and cheer him up. Im in Europe at the moment.
So, what ever I can do count on it.
We got this barrel in a few days ago as part of a rebarreling job and thought it might make a good example of what exactly happens to a barrel when it is past its useful service life.
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Note the rifling is completely eaten away for about a quarter inch ahead of the neck and the steel is blackened and crispy.
This was an OEM factory barrel. Note the rough chamber and visible tooling marks from what was obviously a dull reamer. Also note how rounded the corners are on the shoulder transition from body to shoulder and shoulder to neck.
Here we see a closeup of the same chamber as above (top) compared to a custom, hand polished match chamber (bottom) cut with a new, sharp reamer. The chamber walls are bright and shiny with no tooling marks and the transitions from body to shoulder and shoulder to neck are sharp, not rounded.
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