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.
It's very hard to see in Jack's picture,
but I think I finally see a Smurf hiding in there.
Let me zoom it in for you to see better... knife content included.
Not only atmospheric locales but superb knives to enhance them
Have you guys ever seen a snake with it's face stuffed with salad ?
Super cool shots Ray
It was not until recently I realized that they were actually called Garter snakes NOT Garden snakes lol
I blame my Spanish wired brain ... who knows how many other things I am hearing and saying “close but not quite”
Our kids poke so much fun at my wife and I , especially the youngest one lol
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It's cool to see someone else on here who sails!Sailing my little dinghy in the Saint Lawrence river in 2019 when I got my first GEC.
Sailing that little bathtub is like riding a wild bronco when the wind picks up and the whitecaps start rolling.
Luckily that day things were nice and mild.
( knife went back into my life vest pocket right away, I just had to take a pic you know
Obsidian Bowie down at the pond ...
very cool knife , did you make it ?, I am curious about how sharp it can be made.Got out this morning for another hike. Early start avoids the crowds
Vic Hiker along for the walk
And I won't claim to be Dr. Dolittle like our intrepidCelloDan , but this little guy followed us for a bit yelling at us to get off his lawn.
, the essence of what this thread is all about 
Thank you. No, I did not make the Obsidian Bowie. It is sharp and functional but is really just a curious display piece. While it's said that Obsidian can be knapped to be 50-500 times sharper than steel (depending on how knapped), Obsidian is much too brittle to stand up to the kinds of modern cutting chores that no second thought would be given to, using steel. There's no way to "resharpen" Obsidian other than knapping and I don't have that skill set.Hi Jim Bro
That’s a great snake to have around, they aren’t aggressive and they eat lots of rodents, very cool!Here's a 5 1/2' black snake that lives under the wood pile. Today I caught him in the open & he was moving too fast, heading back for the wood pile for me to get him to pose with a knife. I had the CK Shuffler Barlow in my pocket though.
We see them around here in the flower beds or the wood pile every Summer. When I'm carrying wood in for the stove in the Winter I usually run across their shedded skins. Plus, if there are a few black snakes around, there usually isn't enough surplus food for rattlers or copperheads to take up residence.That’s a great snake to have around, they aren’t aggressive and they eat lots of rodents, very cool!
