Attention 2019 Forum Knife : Poll - Smooth Wood

Smooth Wood

  • African Blackwood

    Votes: 152 41.1%

  • Bocote

    Votes: 6 1.6%

  • Bloodwood

    Votes: 30 8.1%

  • Ebony

    Votes: 6 1.6%

  • Kingwood

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Jobillo

    Votes: 5 1.4%

  • Desert Ironwood

    Votes: 149 40.3%

  • Osage Orange

    Votes: 17 4.6%

  • Cocobolo

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Che Chen

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Total voters
    370
  • Poll closed .
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I only have one GEC with the brushed bolsters at this point and I only keep it because it’s a super rare one. As a collectible, it’s fine, but if you want to actually maintain the finish as a carry piece, good luck. How long can you maintain a bolster with sandpaper on a daily user?

I’m actually okay with any of the options at this point, but I’ll probably end up doing some sanding/polishing. Brushed just looks unfinished and lackluster to me. Especially with ironwood. I can understand brushed with Micarta, but ironwood takes such a nice polish....

Better just go with the AB. That’s a classy knife.... jeans, sweat pants, dive bar, office, suit, wedding, church..... it bridges all situations and looks good at the same time.
 
Signalprick said:
I don't want to speak for everybody, but I'm gonna speak for everybody.......
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It looks like I may have lost the fight about the wood used in the 2019 BF knife. But in a way I won. A few weeks ago I introduced the word endangered into the minds of the knife community which had been hidden by both collectors and dealers. Its out there now - it can never go back to the way it was. It is in your minds it can’t be removed.
 
draggat said:
I only have one GEC with the brushed bolsters at this point and I only keep it because it’s a super rare one. As a collectible, it’s fine, but if you want to actually maintain the finish as a carry piece, good luck. How long can you maintain a bolster with sandpaper on a daily user?

I’m actually okay with any of the options at this point, but I’ll probably end up doing some sanding/polishing. Brushed just looks unfinished and lackluster to me. Especially with ironwood. I can understand brushed with Micarta, but ironwood takes such a nice polish....

Better just go with the AB. That’s a classy knife.... jeans, sweat pants, dive bar, office, suit, wedding, church..... it bridges all situations and looks good at the same time.
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No need for sand paper....your telling me you have never polished one of your polished bolsters before? A lil flitz or metal polish and the thing will look like it came stock polished from GEC. We are all knife knutts here. That carry high carbon I'm sure a majority have metal polish and enjoy polishing out knives....

Come on all this talk about maintenance on brushed bolsters is just fear mongering....I think I have polished every one of the bolsters on my knives even the ones I don't carry often...heck, the bolsters on my #82 came brushed and I polished them right up....I'm just over here :confused:
 
H2O2HI said:
It looks like I may have lost the fight about the wood used in the 2019 BF knife. But in a way I won. A few weeks ago I introduced the word endangered into the minds of the knife community which had been hidden by both collectors and dealers. Its out there now - it can never go back to the way it was. It is in your minds it can’t be removed.
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Don’t take this personally, but you didn’t ‘win’ anything. I would buy a knife with a handle in walrus, narwhal, unicorn, etc. some of us REALLY DON’T CARE. Think whatever you want. Your politics are unwanted and I find them offensive but you are free to feel however you choose.

tmd_87 said:
No need for sand paper....your telling me you have never polished one of your polished bolsters before? A lil flitz or metal polish and the thing will look like it came stock polished from GEC. We are all knife knutts here. That carry high carbon I'm sure a majority have metal polish and enjoy polishing out knives....

Come on all this talk about maintenance on brushed bolsters is just fear mongering....I think I have polished every one of the bolsters on my knives even the ones I don't carry often...heck, the bolsters on my #82 came brushed and I polished them right up....I'm just over here :confused:
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The sandpaper is mainly for the lackluster satin finished blade. After finishing a lot of wood, I’ve found that flitz alone is not enough. I will admit, I greatly prefer the Blackwood....
 
H2O2HI said:
Nunca dije Blackwood o africano en me poesia. Nunca. Mi terminologia de cerdo lo aplique egualmente con Ironwood, Black y Bloodwood. Mi intento era causar humor.
Hasta ahora el critico solo han venido de latinos. Puede ser que el Latino no entiende el humor gringo. Un conflicto entre las 2 culturas.
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No entiendo,,, que pasa esa espanol? No es permitada en este forum...
 
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