2nd Try: Modern Tradition Maker?

[ATwistedStaple]

There's two or three forms to most type of knives. We can get custom knives for $2000 with m390 steel and titanium or carbon fiber handles(modern) and we can get full production Spydercos and ZTs with those same materials. Volume and production process dictate the price along with the market of course. The same goes for traditionals. Full custom stag and carbon steel painstakingly made by two hands for $2000 or quickly made by many hands and machines for $100. Ditto for fixed blades, autos and whatever other niche market you can shake a stick at. With one exception. Or maybe more, but I only care about the one. The modern traditional hybrid.

There are quite a few custom makers that do this sort of knife. High end steel and modern handle material in a traditional slip joint pattern. They sell fast and for quite a bit of money. There is no Spyderco, GEC or Bark River for this sort of knife. You can't go to an online knife store and shop for one, sifting trough a variety of in stock models. It's only available in one off customs. I'd like to see someone fill that void.

 

[BigBiscuit]

Reword it any way you like. Still not interested here.
Or I should say, if a company would like to offer such a line, fine. I just would not like to see it with any of the traditional knife makers we currently deal with. Especially not GEC. I like what they currently do and would like to see them continue doing just what they are doing.

 

[KBA]

Let me try to rephrase this more simply for you, but please correct me if I am wrong.

You are looking for all modern materials, but in a traditional pattern, that is produced for the everyday buyer.

If that is correct, the only real part of the traditional style knife you are looking for is the traditional pattern.

Is that correct?

You could just get one of our many talented forum members to modify a knife for you.

But what I think you are really talking about is a presumed void in the knife market of where you think more people want ONLY the traditional pattern but have everything else be modern.

Still not interested in it myself, but I am sorry for your frustration and discontentment.

To me, and only my opinion, that is taking the soul and history out a traditional knife.

 

[ATwistedStaple]

Let me try to rephrase this more simply for you, but please correct me if I am wrong.

You are looking for all modern materials, but in a traditional pattern, that is produced for the everyday buyer.

If that is correct, the only real part of the traditional style knife you are looking for is the traditional pattern.

Is that correct?

You could just get one of our many talented forum members to modify a knife for you.

But what I think you are really talking about is a presumed void in the knife market of where you think more people want ONLY the traditional pattern but have everything else be modern.

Still not interested in it myself, but I am sorry for your frustration and discontentment.

To me, and only my opinion, that is taking the soul and history out a traditional knife.

Exactly! Your lack of interest is fine, it was the lack of understanding that was frustrating. My own fault I'm sure. It happens.

Single knives were never the point. I'm fully capable of grinding stock to a pattern myself, it's the void in the market I'd like to see filled.

Soul and history I've already got. I'm sure it's not unlike anyone else's story. It all started with my grandfather and the old timer he always kept in his pocket. I have his old timer now. One day hopefully I'll give a grandson of mine the #92 Olive Green Micarta that's traveled with me so much and after I give it to him, I'd like to slice up an apple for the two of us with an Orange G10 handled single blade California clip trapper that's widely available at a reasonable price.

 

[supratentorial]

I'm still not convinced this void in the market exists.

 

[FordRanger]

I'm not quite sure I get what your looking for exactly, but it might just be my state of tiredness. Modern materials in a traditional pattern slipjoint isn't very common, but they do exist if thats all you're looking for. Marbles has an electrician (TL29) in both black and orange micarta. I think they also have a trapper or two with micarta scales. Colt makes a series of micarta handled knives, some of which have carbon steel blades. Buck has a series of G10 handled single bolster slipjoints which look very cool and modern, while still retaining the traditional pattern. (I'd LOVE to see a folding hunter or 110 made in this style!) For American made, Case has the Carhartt series with canvas micarta, and those knives are quite attractive in my opinion. I don't know of any high-end brands doing this, so unfortunately I don't think there are any high end steels or very much variety to be found in these, and in this area you are right, there is a void. I'm afraid there just isn't enough demand for a manufacturer to pick it up and run with it.

If what you're looking for is more of a meshing of modern and traditional designs, this doesn't belong here but there are some knives made this way, CRKT and Cold Steel come to mind but I won't mention models in this subforum. I carry a few knives regularly that fall into this "hybrid" category.

 

[knarfeng]

Since you have an identical thread running in the General Forum, I'm shutting this one down.