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 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.
Best Looking one I've seen..........By a long shot!!!
Stag Bowie I forged for myself June 2023. 1095, euro red stag, brass guard and pins. Collabed with a sage grouse leather sheath.
You can find my work in Instagram here: @popsforge_blacksmithing and on Facebook in my group of the same name. View attachment 2425251View attachment 2425250
Inbound to me at present from Brian Sellers, JS. Could be named "Curves and Koa" or "My Clip is Longer than Your Clip".Hopefully I willbe able to take some of my own pics, but here are two looks at it from the maker.
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I concur 110%….whatta way to go.That is wickedly beautiful........ Sexy beast......![]()
Here are two of mine from this year, both Battleship Texas material. Top one has gun turret bearings in the "sky" as well as Okinawa shrapnel in the "Island" and a ship rivet as the "sun." Fittings are ship/15n20 damascus and the wood is deck wood from the ship. The silver spacers are 1912 and 1948 half dollars, for the commission and decommission years.
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The second is the one I'm donating back to the Battleship Texas Foundation as part of their fundraising. This knife is ship steel clad over 360 layer damascus with a nickel layer between. The guard is ship steel, and the handle is deck wood.
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Even though I made quite a few big knives this year, this is the only with a proper photo.
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