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.
Randy, I’m kinda late to the party. I’ve got an 82 that I like but don’t love. If you wanna try it out for awhile, I’d loan her to ya. Just make sure you don’t polish off any patina you put on it.
You can't bother to care for them enough to keep track of them, so better just stick to rough riders or those horrid green snap off utility knives.
Seriously. Not like I care about your money or lost knives (poor fellas, carbon steel doesn't take abandonment well), but doesn't this seem wasteful to you?
The 82 is a satisfactory pattern. I enjoy it so far, tho its not quite as svelt as the OT61 as I thought it would be. Not an issue, tho, still plenty slim.
So yea, an 82 will be a splendid knife for you to obsess over for a week, then lose over the back of the couch. Or wherever. It is larger than the 66 by a bolster and then some, but not enough to make it any easier to find once you lose interest in it.
Well my new Hemlock Green Bone 66 came today I sure hope it sticks around awhile.
I took this picture of it with the empty tubes of the other two.
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Lol... That would be funny.Randy, by chance did you happen to look in the tubes???![]()