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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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A simply stunning knife (moved here from the Custom forum)
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Written like a true man of letters, some of them polysyllabic. Sorry you feel butthurt over the whole having-fun-with-it-thing.
I suppose that I would, as well, If I were ever foolish enough to spend that kind of money on this sort of object, not that there is anything wrong with it.
Just a matter of taste-bad taste. Like the afformentioned 24" spinner rims, or $300.00 sweat suits, which is sort of a good analogy, if you think about it. Tactical knives were originally created to be LESS expensive versions of nice customs by guys like Crawford and Terzuola. Now the whole thing is inverted, and doesn't make any sense. Sweatsuits were for working out, not to go to work in. Not to wear to an awards event, one televised, no less.
Oh well, there are always other places for you to go, where my name is mud, and your kind are the coolest, high fiving eachother, calling eachother "bro". Yeah, I wanna play in that sandbox, with the other turds.
You really hurt my feelings, I'm gonna go cry a river.
"Little" Regards,
STeven Garsson
Good Lord, please don't let this deteriorate into another ugly thread
without being too PC, there is room in the knife-world for many different tastes!! Think of cars - Chevy vs Ford vs Dodge?
which is better - Ferrari or Porsche (Porsche for me)
Why?
You can go on with this all day! As long as it's all in fun, I say have at it, but sometimes some of the newer members (and knifemakers) don't know the "background" of you Oldskool guys and might take you too seriously when you're actually just fooling around!
For myself - the knife in question here isn't my cup of tea...but that's why I wouldn't buy it for myself. Another guy may love it, and I think that's great.
Whether it's "ART" or "KNIVES", too much similarity gets boring, and interest wanes- we need more knife-knuts, not fewer!
Bill
without being too PC, there is room in the knife-world for many different tastes!! Think of cars - Chevy vs Ford vs Dodge?
which is better - Ferrari or Porsche (Porsche for me
)Why?
You can go on with this all day! As long as it's all in fun, I say have at it, but sometimes some of the newer members (and knifemakers) don't know the "background" of you Oldskool guys and might take you too seriously when you're actually just fooling around!
For myself - the knife in question here isn't my cup of tea...but that's why I wouldn't buy it for myself. Another guy may love it, and I think that's great.
Whether it's "ART" or "KNIVES", too much similarity gets boring, and interest wanes- we need more knife-knuts, not fewer!
Bill
ok, steven, i apologize. i should have saved my "beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder, there's only taste and no taste" for this thread...
and of course we're just having a bit of fun. the world's big enough for people of every sort and kind!
hans
I could definitely find more classy blades to spend $1200 bucks on, but I can certainly understand why people would like this knife. It's pretty wicked looking to me, and unique. My tastes lean towards things like that sometimes.
I like knives of all kinds, both traditional and tactical. The only thing I find really ugly about the knife is the price tag actually.
Someone said somethin about kool-aid drinkers.... I think that can go both ways on this one.
I like knives of all kinds, both traditional and tactical. The only thing I find really ugly about the knife is the price tag actually.
Someone said somethin about kool-aid drinkers.... I think that can go both ways on this one.
Wow.... I am literally amazed to see this level of bashing coming from serious collectors. I'm sure the makers that you all do admire would be horribly embarrassed by your comments.
If you don't like it, then you don't like it. But someone still put time and effort into making it and someone, just like you, put forth their hard earned cash to buy and proudly display it. Please, for the sake of our collective dignity, act like grown ups.
There are many different tastes in knives out there and makers to cater to all tastes. Lets not bash someone else's taste.
If you don't like it, then you don't like it. But someone still put time and effort into making it and someone, just like you, put forth their hard earned cash to buy and proudly display it. Please, for the sake of our collective dignity, act like grown ups.
There are many different tastes in knives out there and makers to cater to all tastes. Lets not bash someone else's taste.
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Maybe there should be a forum for people who think that piece in some way resembles a custom knife?
RL,
1. I gave you a chance to change the wording on your post. You chose, but not, to tell me to pack sand. I'm ill disposed to be kind to you right now.
2. Checked your hyper-link post, and realized......you really did buy one of these. Don't know what to say about that, but you are legitimately butt-hurt. What was this knife designed to do?
3. Did the lack of commentary or response threads not indicate to you that this was not the "high fiving, yeah bro" crowd? What do you want? You are not among those, here (in general) that share your passion for tactical knives of this ilk. Accept it, move on. I speak for myself, but you can see from the other like minded posts here, and the lack of comments in your original post(which got a fair amount of hits) that this is the case.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
"there's the rub" as the Bard once said. I'm not sure whether or not the other folks in here take shots at this particular knife strictly because of its appearance, but one of my problems is that whatver time and effort was put into this knife does NOT ad up to $1250 even at Master Smith labor rates.....including guys like Jerry Fisk. A small Fisk hunter in 1084 probably has at least 3 times as much labor involved as this knife and yet is costs about the same if you can find one. Hence someone's comment about a any bead blasted knife with G10 handle scales (and no guard, mind you) not being worth $1250. However, I will acknowlege that there may be a general feeling that this particular maker...........well, lets just say "doesn't give good value for the money" anyway. Compared to some of the things I have seen in other threads, this little exchange was pretty mild when it comes to Strider. As for the makers that folks in here buy from, askthem yourselves. A couple of them have posted responses in this thread.
1) you are SOOO arrogant...you gave me a chance??? buddy, i don't need your advice on how to post
2) I didn't buy one, but I would.,..not that it is any of your business how i spend MY money
3) look at my join date..1999..i was here FOUR YEARS before you so I know BF pretty well..I don't need a slap on the back or a "high five"...I am open-minded enough to look at knives of all styles and to not put others down because their tastes aren't the same as mine...since we are both giving each other advice on how to post, let me tell you that you should do the same...I don't expect you to like tactical knives nor do I care at all whether you do or don't but putting down other makers or other styles just because they don't appeal to you is lame
RL
Wouldn't a Strider be considered a "mid-tech" as opposed to a custom anyway? As for us not liking tactical,thatis not the case with me. I am quite fond of Walter Brend's work. I have owned a number of Randalls and currently own a couple of Benchmade folders. I would LOVE to have a Loveless Big Bear and have almost pulled the trigger on the copy made by Cold Steel. This is a small sampling of the "tacticals" that I have owned or wanted to own over the years. I currently own a bead blasted, micarta handled Craig Camerer fighter........which I got for $375. (and it has a guard......shhhhhh....don't tell anyone....lol) Also own one by Charlie Ochs, MS. It is a lower priced model that the average soldier can afford that he designed at the behest of one of the commanders at Special Ops Command in Tampa. It is made from O1, is differentially heat treated and costs a whopping $329. So you see, it is NOT that w hate tcticals. As some have stated, it is the idea that this knife is selling for that price.