2012 Traditional Forum Knife - let's begin discussion.

[WA Martin]

If we want a gentleman's knife perhaps we could go with something similar to the Case Eisenhower with some upgraded handle materials.

I like cattle knives. I'm open to a toenail too. (Chris and Gus, you crack me up!, flexible: sunfish or elephant toe...)

If we go with a camp/scout type of knife I'd like to go with a spear master, most clip blades just don't do it for me.

If we go with GEC again I'd like to seem them really work on the pull. To me, last years forum knife is about a 7 or 8. Charlie's SFO, at least mine, is about a 4 on the master and a 5 on the punch. I much defer to Carl's Mr. Van, "you don't want to fight with your knife.

Don't lust much after swell center patterns. I like them smooth, probably not the most illustrative of adjectives, like Eisenhowers and cigars.

 

[eisman]

Can I suggest a Swayback Jack with a Wharncliff blade? Like knives has been selling in less than 1/2 hour on the exchange from this forums custom makers. I prefer a natural color bone (jigged or smooth) and carbon blades, but can be talked into something else. Something with a main blade of around 2.75"?

 

[Liveitloud]

I like the swayback jack with the butt cap on the end. Sharp looking blade. I think the least amount of blades the more affordable it would be in the long run. The GEC 54 2 blade stockman is another good looking knife. I also like the 53 two blade cigar with both blades at the top, one being a wharnie. The 56 dogleg jack is also a good looking knife. Hell, I just guess I have knives on the brain today.

What I really want is this knife with the Furtaker blade configuration.

This handle

On this knife

Sorry, I'm having a fantasy day.

 

[waynorth]

I like the idea of a senator/equal end type knife. Keep it thin with a single spring, large clip on one end, sheepsfoot on the other, sunk joints, say 3 5/8" lg. I'd be tickled to stay with GEC as the maker.

Ideally they could just reverse engineer this one.

I love this pattern.

 

[xbxb]

I like the swayback jack with the butt cap on the end. Sharp looking blade. I think the least amount of blades the more affordable it would be in the long run. The GEC 54 2 blade stockman is another good looking knife. I also like the 53 two blade cigar with both blades at the top, one being a wharnie. The 56 dogleg jack is also a good looking knife. Hell, I just guess I have knives on the brain today.

What I really want is this knife with the Furtaker blade configuration.

This handle

On this knife

Sorry, I'm having a fantasy day.

OH my Gosh!!! I need to go sit down and take some blood pressure medicine. Soooo Nice!

 

[quattromori]

This is going to be my first one...so I'm really looking forward to it.
Personally, I would love to get a clip/wharncliffe combo, or eventually a drop/wharncliffe (like a wharncliffe trapper), with both blades on the same end (with any handle shape - slight curves preferred - dogleg, swayback, saddlehorn, gunstock) or on opposite end (a spear/wharncliffe canoe).
Length, around 3,5".
Handle material...I would love a smooth handle so I suggest ebony, but I'm more than open to almost anything.
I haven't seen much of "older" forum knives, but the 2011 looks really nice, so my vote goes for GEC too.
As a sidenote, I would be happy of any single bladed knife as well. In that case, a sodbuster, or single wharncliffe jack, would be my choices.

Fausto

 

[yobbos1]

I would be all over this one.

 

[comoha]

I would be all over this one.

That is so cool! I love everything Jack London...

 

[cj65]

That is not a bad idea. Jack London is folksier than Carl, if I dare say that. :foot:

 

[Tripton]

Id be happy with GEC. I am a bit disappointed in a few aspects of the 2011 knife (edge smacking backspring, non-working opener, tough pulls) but the rest of the knives I have from there are near perfect. Buck is an interesting idea, and maybe one to think about being they are a BF supporter.

As for the pattern, Id be really really open on that. The elephants nail/sunfish is interesting, but I wonder about practicality. . .but I have never had one, either. So long as it is something useful and still interesting and different, I'll most likely be in.

 

[FLymon]

A nice Peanut with a main clip and a wharnie secondary, or single blade Gunstock appeals to me.

I think Sunfish are cool, but does anyone carry them? I know they are one of the most collectable patterns, but I wouldn't buy one of these to collect and not use.

 

[2Dead]

I'll be up for just about anything as I don't think we can collectively steer ourselves wrong.

But what I'd really like to see is a wharncliffe trapper or trapper jack. At 3.5", you have Queen's #51 Mini Trapper frame. Very pocketable and you have D2 as a steel option. At 3 7/8" you have GEC's #48 frame. I really like the GEC #48 frame though. GEC has made a Scagel #48 with wharncliffe blade before so I don't think it would be too difficult for them to add a clip blade I'm also more of a fan of the longer/thinner muskrat clip (I think thats the one) on the single blade #48s. Same blade on a trapper jack please. It would look similar to Schrade's 294 pattern.

Here's a borrowed pic of the wharncliffe Scagel

And here's another borrowed pic, this time of Schrade's 294 and similar patterns (credit goes to Charlie/Waynorth). You get a better idea of what I'm looking for than the following one which is one of my 294's

Either a GEC #48 WT or Jack a la Schrade 294 would easily kick this knife out of my pocket as my most used

 

[thejamppa]

whatever you guys go for next year, I am in... aslong it doesn't have seratations and thumbstuds... Which is not going to happen... I would still like to GEC do 3½" barlow or Gunstock but peanut to sunfish and trappers, I am in!!

 

[biglmbass]

I think that the key to these forum knives is that we do a pattern that they don't currently make. The fun is developing our blade configuration, etc. That's something to keep in mind

I'm all for that, regardless of the maker though I have a strong slant towards GEC.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks Mikey for volunteering for a tedious task! I volunteer to help with the 2012 knife, but we need more talent to step up too.
The project needs more people good with a spread sheet, money management and organization - not me!

 

[coyote711]

Is it just me, because I'm "seeing" what I want to see? It seems like there's a lot of clip and wharncliffe/sheepsfoot combinations floating around here in one form or another ..... Peanut, Texas Jack, Muskrat, Trapper - all with the above ..............................^^^^^...................blade combo's.

That blade combination has a lot of appeal for me. A nice pointy clip blade that's useful for so many things, and a (shorter ?) wharnie for the precise cutting tasks (and opening the stupid bubble packs that are everywhere). I'd be cool with any knife with that blade combo. Just my $.02.

 

[waynorth]

You know.....i'll tell you what I think my final opinion is for the 2012 knife.



A Cattle Knife with a Punch with some cool jigging (If this could be done for $100 I would be all of it)

That's a beautiful Cattle knife!!

 

[Kohai999]

That's a beautiful Cattle knife!!

Agreed, and I would like one of these as well for a 2012 BFC knife.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[waynorth]

Hey STeven - nice to see your bony face!

 

[quattromori]

I'm glad the clip/wharnie fans are growing in number...
I'd be glad to help on this project, but I guess you would like the help of someone on that side of the Ocean
As for the 2012, I was thinking about it...since I've never taken part to the process, I'm curious to know something.
I assume the knife has to be a "new" pattern, meaning a knife that the company (GEC, Buck, whoever it will be) does not offer at the moment. This sounds fair.
But, how far can we go? I mean, can we decide a totally new pattern, or shall we take into consideration the existing production of the company?
Cause moving far from production might be nice, but I guess it involves higher costs, and maybe the company wouldn't want to produce such a knife.
Instead, staying "closer" to production would be easier somehow, but of course we would have to respect more "barriers".
In this case, and considering GEC (which is, of course, not decided yet), I would opt for this knife:

with this blade as secondary:

without changing the size of the blades, to make things easier.
As for the handle, I like the Dogleg jack, but I also like the idea of a swayback handle (which would probably require a change in the clip blade), or a gunstock (which should work fine with the blades as they are).
Just thoughts...

Fausto