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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Joe Talmadge said:One last point, and sorry for the babbling. If it's a folder we're talking about, the biggest problem to be solved is: how do you get the thing open? With a standard Spyderco hole, the most convenient way to open the knife is in forward grip ... then, you have to spin it around into pakal. Not something I'd relish under any sort of stress. Perhaps we just live with spinning the knife after it's open -- another good reason to make sure it can be used in standard forward grip, just in case.
ThinkOfTheChildren said:In my opinion, a good pikal knife isn't just a knife that's comfortable in that grip: tip alignment should be a big concern. I don't think the tip alignment of the Chinook or the Temperance FB are good for pikal.
SouthNarc said:Ray and I have had a brief discussion and will probably collaborate on a design that will work for most everyone's expression of reverse edged methods and hopefully be adequete for conventional application as well.
SouthNarc said:Ray and I have had a brief discussion and will probably collaborate on a design that will work for most everyone's expression of reverse edged methods and hopefully be adequete for conventional application as well.
marcdscott said:I gave it some thought and if it were mine, I would incorporate a symetrically curved handle such as the following it would work both pakal and traditional:
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SouthNarc said:Ray and I have had a brief discussion and will probably collaborate on a design that will work for most everyone's expression of reverse edged methods and hopefully be adequete for conventional application as well.