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.
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Good to see a 23 next to a 43. I do wish the 23 LL had a lanyard hole like on the 43. I plan on making my 23 LL Beaver a camp knife and it would be great if it had one.I also got this comparison shot of the#23 next to another large(ish) Beaver Tail that I’ve been carrying a lot lately, the #43 Oregon Trapper.
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I agree! A lanyard tube woulda been perfect.Good to see a 23 next to a 43. I do wish the 23 LL had a lanyard hole like on the 43. I plan on making my 23 LL Beaver a camp knife and it would be great if it had one.
These turned out great.
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Maybe it's the angle but in this picture I dislike the bone on the one with the blades open and love the bone on the one with the blades closed, looks like the old Queen winter bottom bone which was great bone.
Received the smooth Autumn bone today, lot of Autumn orange/yellow to it. Has just about perfect pulls for a knife this size, 6 to 7, just a little bitnless than the beaver chewed.
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Very nice , and unique , John . There will never be another one just like it !!!!!Received the smooth Autumn bone today, lot of Autumn orange/yellow to it. Has just about perfect pulls for a knife this size, 6 to 7, just a little bitnless than the beaver chewed.
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Just received the OKCA #23. Very impressed!
I also received my OKCA trapper today. I think it is the largest and/or heaviest pocket knife in my collection. It is a beast.
We will all find out after the release. I have been checking production photos , five times a day. I am guessing the "Hounds Tooth". The pre-production drawings of the GEC#23 Woodland Micarta showed a Hounds Tooth shield. GEC went with the badge shield instead. WHY ? Putting the cooler looking Hounds tooth on a cheaper knife would really make collectors angry. Bill Howard knows what he is doing. My prediction is a Northfield GEC#23 Pioneer Trapper Chocolate Almond Peach-seed bone with a hounds tooth shield.Has anyone any idea on what shield will be on the Northfield brown jigged bone 23's?
Thank you so much Sir for posting this knife. I paid for mine on January 3rd ,2020. We all have been sweating it out on this knife. I am so tickled that our club knives turned out as well as it did. This knife is better than the #23 Beaver gnawed cherry wood knife. I was shocked to see the Shaner Club knife with Beaver gnawed cherry wood with un-exciting etching. I bought the cheaper Tidioute #23 Beaver knife instead. The OKCA 2020 looked like wavy "Rogers" jigging to me. Very hard to tell in the photos. I will be so happy to receive that knife in my hand.
I love your #54 beaver cherry wood knife. I hope GEC repeats this wood on any GEC pattern. The Brazilian cherry wood beaver gnawed jigged is a whole new animal and should be used on any future GEC knife. I wished GEC would make more wood knives in the future.I better practice my half stops on my 54 while I wait. It should be here in a couple of days. I sometimes use a table to open the blade the rest if the way. To close, I go full palm, no fingers and let the tail slap on the water.
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These turned out great.
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India, of course.Where does this exotic stuff come from?
I was wondering why my french fries cost way more than they used to.... I suppose shipping costs have really gone up due to the pandemic.India, of course.![]()