2015 BLADEFORUMS Club Knife - SHIPPED!!

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Thanks for answering the "finish" question Eric!
A glaze finish is right up my alley!
For those who are new at this, a glaze finish is not quite a high polish. It has a lightly "brushed" look that is very fine. Perfect for this knife, IMO.
I haven't carried a stainless knife for quite a while, so I am looking forward to toting this one!!

Can anyone tell me about sharpening 440C?? Gary??:D
 
Could only be my sharpening technique, but I have found that a slightly more obtuse angle works better for 440C. Instead of 15-18° per side, 20-25° per side works better for me.
 
So Charlie/Barry is there enough on order now to have them start the process of 300? curious minds want to know ;)

as to sharpening 440C, I've only had a few of them and they were not difficult to sharpen.

I'm just hoping that they have the Rockwell up around 59 or 60 possibly?? as I certainly plan on putting her to use!

G2
 
Buck used to harden 440C to 58-59 and those blades work just fine for me.
440C wants to be in the high 50's, only.
Early smiths using 440C (early 1960's) made the mistake of hardening it to the low 60's. 440C developed a reputation for brittleness as a result. Battling the reputation for brittleness is why Buck had that thickened edge geometry on their early knives.
 
Yep I've read the most you'd want would be 60 curious as to what their treatment is
G2
 
Even Canal Street's 14-4 is only 58-59 HRc, so their 440C is probably in the 57-58 range. Should be very similar to GEC's hardness.
 
OK, Got my order in. Wasn't the steel I wanted, but it "was" the pattern I voted for, so....... :p
 
Huge thanks and gratitude to all who have organized and worked on the 2015 knife. We have come a long way since the first one. If I remember correctly the order total was around 45 or so. Thank you all for keeping this tradition alive.
 
Will Power said:
We overseas have to pay about 25% customs tax extra on top, the shipping cost is taxed too.
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Will, if it is not secret, where do you live? We don't have to pay custom fees when shipped with USPS. We avoid UPS because they go via their hub and charge also custom fees then.

It seems the first batch will sell at a brisk pace!
 
A little more history, the total counts to date give our take a few...

2006 - 43 ring knives...................Canal Street Cutlery
2007 - 57 cannitlers.....................Canal Street Cutlery
2008 - 50 stockmen.....................Northwood knives
2009 - 113 barlows.......................Queen/Schatt Morgan
2010 - 131 moose.........................Queen
2011 - 184 easy openers...............GEC (Pending confirmation)
2012 - 262 wharncliffe trappers...GEC
2013 - 173 congress jacks...........GEC
2014 -354 stag jacks....................GEC

And a little additional history, members involved with and who bought first taditional forums knife.

BFC Ring Knife registry so far I know, these were serial# so the #s were recorded from the initial sale, there's no guarantee that there still with their original owners. I still have mine, lucky # 13

01 Spark
03 Randy (Nifrand)
04 Rusty1
05 shaldag
06 timjmayer
07 shaldag
10 peter78
11 kapt kopter
12 waynorth
13 T. Erdelyi
14 ea42
15 cockroachfarm
16 sunnyd
17 longbeachguy
18 bushkill
19 Lanza
20 garciajr
24 PhilL
26 cockroachfarm
27 Mick57
28 FreezerGeezer
30 Thomason
31 sheathmaker
32 db
33 kapt kopter
34 ea42
36 cmd
37 jki
38 Gus (aka Bastid)
39 Vampire Gerbil
41 cccxiv
42 El Lobo
43 glennbad
44 waynorth
45 Gus

If the last list bothered anyone I'll remove it but it was from a post here on BFC so I figured it was alright.

Get your knife now, if you miss this one it'll be over a year before you see the next, that's if we can keep this tradition going, here's to the traditional forum's knife for 2016 :) ;)
 
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This years knife isn't my cup o' tea, but I think it was really cool that every last detail of the knife was voted on.

The knife that folks buy will be the exact knife they want.

This years process was very fun and just a great way of doing it.

...still wish Case would of stepped up though.

BIG thanks to all involved in the process!!!
 
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