2015 Forum Knife - It's Never Too Early To Think About the Next Blade Forum Knife

[mykel m]

As long as a punch is included, I support this choice!! (And understand clips over wharncliffes, I'm okay with that choice!!)

I could live with a wharncliffe but spears turn me off, they are just bland looking IMO.:barf:
I'll take the versatility of a splinter pickin' tip and good cutting edge over a plain jane spear anyday.

No offense to the spear likers out there,to each their own after all.

 

[quattromori]

I guess it's way too late to advocate the "give the 2014 crew some rest" thing..........so let's play the brainstorming game
A fixed blade might be a nice change for sure...but my vote goes for a medium sized (3,5") equal end/cigar frame with a clip/sheepsfoot jack configuration, or a single bladed zulu spear in a similar size.

Fausto

 

[cards94]

spears turn me off, they are just bland looking IMO.:barf:

Same here.

 

[Markesharp]

cards94.......left you a visitor message. :thumbup:

 

[Alnamvet68]

Brainstorming is great, so long as it's not all storm, and no brain.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

small fixed blade with sheath.

+10 :d

A 3" to 3-1/2" bird & trout on the order of the Western 28 (L28/F28/628) or 48B (L/F/6).

 

[Dr. Scott]

#15 EO sheepfoot Beerlow with Sunbrite acrylic scales and a special stamped bolster...NOT to be confused with the esteemed Charlow. And a commemorative beer from a microbrewery with a name like "Six Stitches Stout," or "Broken Blade Porter," or "Cut Away IPA."

 

[B.F.U]

I'm definitely cool with a punch/awl. Much more useful than a pen blade, in my use.

Certain fixed blades would be interesting as well.


Stainless.... Stainless.... Stainless....

 

[B.F.U]

#15 EO sheepfoot Beerlow with Sunbrite acrylic scales and a special stamped bolster...NOT to be confused with the esteemed Charlow. And a commemorative beer from a microbrewery with a name like "Six Stitches Stout," or "Broken Blade Porter," or "Cut Away IPA."

You know, there are actually some micro brews and wineries up Titusville way. It's mostly a fantasy/nice idea rather than feasible, I'd think, but I'll be 21 for next year so I'm in!

(I know everybody seems to prefer the sheepfoot, but I'd definitely rather see a clip beside the caplifter)

 

[Art_Vandeley]

As with every year I vote for a large 4 blade congress. Last years was a fantastic knife but it`s still not a full blown congress.

 

[RaptureRaptor]

I'm another for the peanut, I'd love to see a peanut in GEC's antique yellow bone with 1095 blades. Close second would be. Some kind of razor pattern, possibly a Barlow? And third would be an EO sheepsfoot!

 

[thedaver8]

so...putting it all together, a beerlow peanut with punch in stag. :thumbup:

 

[bleh]

so...putting it all together, a beerlow peanut with punch in stag. :thumbup:

You forgot a few. It should be a Sheepsfoot Beerlow Peanut with a punch with a stainless 1095 blade and stag covers.

 

[thedaver8]

You forgot a few. It should be a Sheepsfoot Beerlow Peanut with a punch with a stainless 1095 blade and stag covers.

How could I forget the stainless 1095!

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

You forgot a few. It should be a Sheepsfoot Beerlow Peanut with a punch with a stainless 1095 blade and stag covers.

I'll order ten of those!!

Is it a stainless:1095 San Mai or pattern welded blade.....

Who said the decision process was difficult!

 

[VictorKilo]

If we're playing with house money...

3" Carbon steel drop point lockback, 3 5/8" squared frame, ebony scales, brass pins/liners, nickel silver bolsters.

 

[bleh]

If we're playing with house money...

3" Carbon steel drop point lockback, 3 5/8" squared frame, ebony scales, brass pins/liners, nickel silver bolsters.

so, the new 99 with a drop point?

 

[Dr. Scott]

How about a peanut with a Barlow bolster, a sheepfoot blade in 1095 and a stainless clip blade, with one side handled in stag and acrylic on the reverse.

 

[VictorKilo]

so, the new 99 with a drop point?

...and I'm not bitter at all that a drop point was omitted from the line-up!

 

[eisman]

Why go normal, when the forum knife has always seemed to be the prime place for a return of a classic pattern not often seen, or a take on a pattern.

I've got to agree with the above. Everybody's got a favorite pattern, but the point is not to just make a knife that can be readily had in a special version, but to make a special knife that can be more readily had. Look at the knives now available from manufacturers that were not in production until this forum showed there was a market for them. Canal Street made multiple runs of Ring Knives and Canoe Whittlers (Canitlers), GEC brought out the Barlow (and a whole lot of others started them back up) and the 73's. Take a look and see who was making an EO before this forum provided incentive.

I can buy a Sodbuster for $10. I can't find an EO Caplifter for any kind of money. Yes, it's easier and cheaper to go with something that already exists, but really, why bother?

Here's a small sampling of knives I'd like to think we could do for the forum; they're beautiful, useful, patterns that are not currently made and impossible to find. One's a old discontinued pattern, one's a "made-up" pattern, and one's a custom. Think about what it would be like to actually be able to buy one of these new; isn't that a goal worth reaching for?