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.
That forsaken steel heart is soo nice. Ive been itching to get my hands on a cs nffsh or sfno or nfno. So much want in your picture haha
ThanksTwoody
FSH is one of my favorites. My first substantial piece of INFI was an HHFSH. Great pattern.
Almost wish I'd kept the FSH. Love the looks/feel. Fusion handle always a favorite, love the fuller and CBT's. Kept the NFNO because I thought it would be a more practical user, slightly shorter blade easier packed/detail work and has a little more weight in the right place for mild chops..Not as sexy as the Forsaken Steel Heart, I'd have that stripped and assigned work detail already if I'd had kept it.[/QUOTE
INFI does not take a blue well in the experience of many here. There have been some exceptions, IIRC.
How to strip cerakote
1) Hold the knife in your hand
2) Hack the crap out of everything in sight
3) Repeat
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The tip is actually just bare metal by now
FSH is one of my favorites. My first substantial piece of INFI was an HHFSH. Great pattern.
I bought a stripped 1 of 300 Battle Mistresses from here and it looks like crap LoL.
I couldn’t see the scratches all over the blade from the previous owners pics when I bought it.
It also has tiny pits on the blade on both sides as well as the spine. whomever ground the Swedge did a bad job and it is ground uneven and still shows the machining marks on both sides.
Does anyone know a knifemaker that could fix the uneven swedge and remove the scratches and hopefully the pits as well?
I already know about razors edge and Ban but they are way out of my budget.
The plus side is the design is AWESOME, and I love that its full flat ground and comes to a thinner edge.
That forsaken steel heart is soo nice. Ive been itching to get my hands on a cs nffsh or sfno or nfno. So much want in your picture haha
I love the blade on these, but the handle feels a little small so I got a hr2 for comparison and the blade is so similar but just a little more handle which i like... I dig that orange and black on yours... very niceThanks brother but i recently picked one up ! View attachment 1647811
I like that bottom picI used that orange citrus strip on this one . Bottom photo shows the result. What do y'all think ?
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It left a patina that sorta looks a parkerized firearm.I like that bottom pic
Used to have a parkerized 1911, personally prefer a satin finish. But patina looks great on the rat.It left a patina that sorta looks a parkerized firearm.