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.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Thanks a lot my friend!
Thank you!
I’m really happy with my stag. I haven’t seen any other examples except the factory photos, but they showed some nice stag!Excellent Pics of two beautiful knives...thanks for posting!I now get to see how the stag looks on these. Makes it worth the wait. If I can wait.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks Alan! I’m very pleased with the stag! I hope you get a good one!
Thanks. I saw the ones from KSF today and they looked good to me. I had to buy mine blind but I'm confident. Should know by the end of the weekThanks Alan! I’m very pleased with the stag! I hope you get a good one!
I bought mine blind too! I was proud to just be able to get them! Looking forward to your great photos Alan!
Thanks. I'll do my best.
Those tiny voids by the bolster are just the nature of ironwood. I have worked with ironwood and found that they will appear at random while sanding the wood down, no indication of where or when they will surprise you. It is the nature of the material.
Hard to pick a favorite in that group. I’m guessing it’s the stag.So, I didn't intend to buy any from this Mustang drop and therefore didn't sign up for any reserves. Once I started seeing the production photos, coupled with the fact that I didn't have any 73s or 74s in my quiver, I changed my mind and jumped in with both feet. I got lucky with a couple of dealer drops and landed these guys. The burlap micarta has been in my pocket since last week when it arrived and I like it a lot - even the shield has grown on me.
Just dumb luck!! I've missed way more than connected this year.You must have a system for finding the drops.
I just noticed it and thought it was funny. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this on any other GEC knife (but I’m not about to go looking through all of mine to confirm). I will say that on my 2017 #74 Stallions, the tang stamp is fully visible, but those had the old GEC TIW stamp (on one line) instead of the two-line GEC CARBON stamp they’re using now. Anyone else ever notice this in any other models? Just curious. 
I've got a 721111 whic only the very top of the numbers is visible when open. Upon closing just a little past 90 deg. You can see the 7 most of the 2 and maybe 2/3 of the first 1, the last three 1's are never fully seen, only the tops. Cyclops is the top line, Steel works is the second, and the model number bottom. Kind of funny.Here’s something sort of unusual I noticed on my two new #74’s. The model number on the tang is always partially obscured by the bolster. At full-open and half-open, every number but the 7 is approximately half hidden (give or take a millimeter). At 45° and 135°, you can see the 745, but the 120 is almost completely obscured.
Does it matter? Not at all.
I have 3 older model 74's . The Old Barn Chestnut is a 2016 GEC 745116 with a Drop Point and the numbers are covered up 1/2 was up the numbers .Here’s something sort of unusual I noticed on my two new #74’s. The model number on the tang is always partially obscured by the bolster. At full-open and half-open, every number but the 7 is approximately half hidden (give or take a millimeter). At 45° and 135°, you can see the 745, but the 120 is almost completely obscured.
Does it matter? Not at all.
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