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 got a little bit done this weekend, so just 2 pics for now.
First pic, .040" 410SS liners profiled, drilled and reamed along with 2 profiled blade blanks and my fixture for setting the spring for flush.
I put a 45 degree bevel on the blades to give me a guide for where I want my plunges to start.
The second pic is of the nail nick and the diamond wheel I use for putting it in.
Next weekend I'll hopefully get the blades and spring ground and fit, and braze and shape the bolsters. I'll take more pictures then.
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I´m working on two knives, a Puukoo and a ~4" user/hunter but I won´t enter one before I have them back from HT and am sure I´ll have them done in time.
Here is the actual KITH blade. my friend's blade is already hardened at Rc60, but is clay differentially heat treated. My wife put the KITH knife in the cutlery drawerI was worried a for a bit it went in the garbage by accident. I am leaning towards the paduak or the dyed zebrano for the small knife, and the cocobolo or the antler for the larger knife. Any thoughts? I think the Ebony is beautiful, but I think the large pattern needs a larger knife to be proportional. Once I see the hamon, I may change my mind.I am also thinking about using a different piece of zebrano, and running the grain vertically, rather than horizontally.
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