Behold, the 2023 BladeForums Traditional Forum Knife

[jc57]

I could really get down with calling it “Chunky Norfolk”. Sounds like a 70’s funk bassist.

If that sticks somehow, I am gonna trademark it based on the time stamp of the forum post and demand a 5c per knife royalty. That would cover the 1-year renewal for my gold membership.

 

[RobbW]

Ah yes, Schrodinger‘s knife—that third blade both does and doesn’t exist. It’s a quantum thing that I’m sure Meako can perfectly explain.

Looks great as the next BFC knife. Can’t wait!

 

[r8shell]

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A swell-center congress, says Mr. Levine.

Whatever you do, don't call it a "half congress"! There's no such thing.

 

[jc57]

The third blade is just a quantum state of the missing nail nick on the pen blade. It is actually a 4-dimensional knife that is projected into 3 dimensions and then rendered in 2 dimensions for display. The 3rd blade and the pen blade nick will appear or not depending on how it is rotated in the 4th dimension.

There is also a rotation in which the word "Carbon" on the blade is transformed via a Penrose tiling to actually read "440C"

 

[jc57]

Whatever you do, don't call it a "half congress"! There's no such thing.

2/3rds Humpback Stockman.

 

[sf fanatic]

Let’s give credit where credit is due and christened it, “The Spark Special”.

 

[HEMI 49]

GEC has forwarded this based on my input as this year's Traditional Forum Knife

I strongly prefer natural materials, so Jigged Bone is perfect in my view. We are looking at 600ish pieces this year, pricing to come. Before anyone asks, yes this will come with a button too.

2023 marks the 25th year of BladeForums, so this will be a special offering. We still have time to get the front and back labels together for this so I'm open to suggestions or submissions.

Like last year, you will need to be an active member of the Traditional forum to purchase these (25+ posts in this forum, member since before Jan 1, 2023) or have a Gold or higher membership.

EDIT: A sharp eyed member pointed out that there appears to be a rendering error in the middle picture; they are correct, this is a two blade design, not a 3 blade

Spark .... Beautiful knife!!... Thank you for making it possible!!

 

[EngrSorenson]

Let’s give credit where credit is due and christened it, “The Spark Special”.

I think “The Spark Special” was what he did to the 2022 BF knives.

 

[waverave]

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A swell-center congress, says Mr. Levine.

That’s it dude!

 

[EngrSorenson]

I could really get down with calling it “Chunky Norfolk”. Sounds like a 70’s funk bassist.

Bootsy Collins
Larry Graham
Rocco Prestia
Chunky Norfolk


… blends right in.

 

[abey67]

I’m all in on this. Looks incredible.

 

[Spark]

I think “The Spark Special” was what he did to the 2022 BF knives.

I screwed up that badly?

 

[mrknife]

i hope the no nail nick on the pen isnt a goof. suppose if it can be pinched open it would be funny

 

[thepapercut]

Whatever you do, don't call it a "half congress"! There's no such thing.

Semi Congress. Or perhaps, Quorum.

 

[sf fanatic]

I screwed up that badly?

I just want to be clear, I was referring to the 2023 Forum knife. But while I’m at it 2022 was outstanding too!

 

[Old Engineer]

It appears that it will be a Special knife . I would hope that they will put some Special Jigged Bone on it similar to the Lambfoot in 2019 . Most of GEC's latest Jigging is very Blah

Harry

 

[Nebrasketball]

Looks awesome. Can’t wait to see it come to fruition!

 

[J.Mattson]

Super stoked, this looks great!

 

[Daniel W]

i can’t wait

 

[AZCoyote]

The third blade is just a quantum state of the missing nail nick on the pen blade. It is actually a 4-dimensional knife that is projected into 3 dimensions and then rendered in 2 dimensions for display. The 3rd blade and the pen blade nick will appear or not depending on how it is rotated in the 4th dimension.

There is also a rotation in which the word "Carbon" on the blade is transformed via a Penrose tiling to actually read "440C"

I worked out the equations and it seems the third blade is used to cut time.