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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Pack Rat said:
:thumbup:chickentrax said:I read once that employees in chocolate factories are encouraged to eat as much as they want...supposedly they soon lose their taste for chocolate...
I am going to try this exact same approach to knife collecting...I figure if I keep on buying them, pretty soon I'll get bored and stop...
especially when some of the guys on here post pics :thumbup: theres a pile of nice knives out there 
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chickentrax said:I read once that employees in chocolate factories are encouraged to eat as much as they want...supposedly they soon lose their taste for chocolate...
I am going to try this exact same approach to knife collecting...I figure if I keep on buying them, pretty soon I'll get bored and stop...
chickentrax said:Preston - You didn't say which 500 was the new one (and I have no way of telling), but I like the bottom one...the semi-hollow grind is nice and straight; where the top one rises up towards the tip...like the BCCI knife...or at least, your pic of it...
It's just personal preference...Like I said; the 277 Alpha lovers will..er, love it...
(The pic from 334dave linked in my post has a 426 blade in it)
BTW: I like the way the spine curve from the back bolster to the blade tip "flows" on that bottom 500...the BCCI blade looks almost straight for half its length...
...This BCCI fund-raiser 110 is gonna be one of my "non-EDC's"...Can't wait to see what the 112 companion will look like. A while back when we just started discussing the fund-raiser knife and we had those pics of the prototype up, the one thing I mentioned was that if they could have increased the radius in the belly of the blade it would have been a bit more to my liking. That would have given more of the appearance that Trax seems to like in the 500. I still think the radius is a bit small but all in all it's that "unique" aspect of the knife that makes it appealing to me. My one criticism of the knife I have is that I seem to have lost quite a bit of the bark in the grinding and buffing operation. I have perhaps 30 to 40 percent of the bark left in the middle of the scales and it's very light as well. It's not uinappealing at all, I just "may" have been happier with a bit more bark and less aggressive grinding and buffing on the scales. Each knife is different and unique in itself...that's what makes these knives really nice. We all have our personal preferences though...so...if anyone dislikes too much bark...LOL... Still...a really neat knife...:thumbup: :thumbup:
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P239 said:WOW, what a beautiful knife that is.
Trax,chickentrax said:I am curious...which photo are you looking at that is beautiful??? My own personal preference is the "prototype" BCCI knife shown on the 1st page. I've always liked the 426 drop-point blade, and when this project was launched, I thought that Buck would be supplying 426 blades in the 110 body. It would seem I am wrong in that.
I'm not saying that the BCCI shipping knife is ugly...it's just not what I thought it would be...
Mike Kerins said:
It looks OK on an Alpha...but not on a 110...the 426 grind - and curve - looks great on a 110...
Based on your comments, I'll have to wait and see if I want to get the 112 companion. I was hoping for a blade similar to what is used on the 500 Duke.chickentrax said:I agree. I'm also not thrilled with the grind of the hollow...it's too Alpha Hunter-ish...
