Attention 2019 Forum Knife : Poll - Shield

I voted bomb since the get go. I’m glad to see it make a comeback. I think it will look great on this knife with either of the front-runner woods. And we won’t need another poll to decide which way to put it (I hope).

 

Reverse bomb!

 

Looking for the tar and feathers....

 

Reverse BOMB...

 

Wholeheartedly agree. Also, 2nd picture, 1st & 3rd. That bowtie looks pretty darn good too.

 

I thought the Bomb was on the endangered CITIES list, and can no longer be imported!
Change your vote to GUITAR now, before it's too late!!

Besides, what would BEST represent The Porch? A violent, unfriendly BOMB?
Or....a Guitar being gently strummed on, you guessed it, a PORCH!
Andy couldn't have been wrong!

 

I'm kinda disappointed we didn't get a Bow-Tie option.
Maybe folks were picturing this:

But I think it would have been more like this:

 

With blackwood or ebony, we could have had this:

 

No bad choices here, except that Guitar....

Bomb could be more interesting placed vertically between the liners?

 

We aint need no darn foreign bowties, English or Scottish on our Moonshiner

We could have a suspender shield though....

 

How 'bout a bullet, like Barney kept in his pocket?

 

Since my preferred choices weren't included in the polling I switched to Da Bomb yesterday.
The Federal would have been nice, but that Orleans was just too blingy for my taste.

Go Team!

 

Ok, I was on the orleans train but the herd mentality is kicking in. Lets make a deal. Ill change it to bomb if you change from ironwood to blackwood.

 

I’m not sure, but I think I was the first to suggest a reverse Orleans shield so I definitely have a strong interest in this choice. It would be a first for a GEC knife and that is important for a BF knife. Whenever possible we should keep it very traditional, but try something new.

I still think it looks gourgeous and it would look great on any of the woods we choose. Also, it sits perfectly between the pins.

 

i am starting to think double reverse bomb may be the ultimate

 

In!

 

RIP Orleans, would have been so cool, alas!

 

Powerful argument, my friend.
The reality is that people who can play guitar are simply not in the majority.
Narrow it down to those who can play guitar and actually read music, and they are even rarer.

Still keeping my votes for Osage and guitar shield. I’m a stubborn coot.

By the way, any Andy Griffith show featuring the Darlins (real band name~ the Dillards) is good teevee.

All you non- guitar players, PLEASE pick a shield big enough for a jewelry engraver to do some embellishment!

 

I like the bomb shield, I really do. But we have the opportunity to make this knife a little more unique and special by choosing the reverse orleans shield. The lines of that shield really flow well with the shape of the handle and we'd get to have a shield configuration that few, if any, knives had had in the past while still preserving the traditional character.