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.
Just got mine today, cool knife but half of the blade comes dull and seems to be over heated with burning mark :
Mine was dull from top to bottom. The lanyard tube was also broken though with the tang of the knife. I sent them a message over week ago with no reply… not what I expected .
Just got mine today, cool knife but half of the blade comes dull and seems to be over heated with burning mark :
Mine was dull from top to bottom. The lanyard tube was also broken though with the tang of the knife. I sent them a message over week ago with no reply… not what I expected .
I wrote Jerry and have shipped the knife out for repair. So far my experience with him has been excellent. He explained that this was a very rare situation and is committed to making things more than right. I will update when the knife is returned.Stopped in this forum because I was thinking of adding this company's knives to my collection. Glad I read the entire thread before spending any money. You know what they say about first impressions...
Two bad knives in as many posts suggests a lot of knives went out messed up. I assumed that at this price point a human would have personally inspected every knife shipped. Apparently not.
I saw where the owner responded promising to correct the issue. Thats good. This is exactly the kind of response I like to see when mistakes crop up. You should keep us informed as to how this plays out. What was done, how long did it take, all that.
I wrote Jerry and have shipped the knife out for repair. So far my experience with him has been excellent. He explained that this was a very rare situation and is committed to making things more than right. I will update when the knife is returned.
Just got mine today, cool knife but half of the blade comes dull and seems to be over heated with burning mark :/
Just got mine today, cool knife but half of the blade comes dull and seems to be over heated with burning mark :
Mine was dull from top to bottom. The lanyard tube was also broken though with the tang of the knife. I sent them a message over week ago with no reply… not what I expected .
I thought those complaints sounded fishy!Good news on both accounts. We received a pic of Maxkreiger's knife and there are no visible burn marks whatsoever in the pic that we received. Turns out that what he is seeing is an extra heavy layer of Cosmoline that we cover our overseas shipments in to prevent oxidation while enroute. Once this heavy Cosmoline is removed, the edge will be exposed and should easily cut paper. No knife leaves this shop without slicing through a sheet of paper along the entire edge. His knife did this prior to being covered in cosmoline.
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We did receive the other knife with the purported edge and tube issue. The knife will easily cut paper from tip to stern and the tube is not split.
First the edge. It is paper slicing sharp along the entire edge.
I tested it myself and in the process, totally destroyed a sheet of paper that had all of my secret notes on it outlining every upcoming knife model and date of release for the next 15 years!!! OOOps!!!!
The tube was confusing because it is NOT split. However, there was a burr on the inside of the tube near the middle where the opposing dies come together. This causes no structural issues with the tube, but might prematurely wear out lanyards.
We have tracked down the cause of this tube issue and have fixed it. Turned out to be an alignment issue with the dies, as one of them had loosened and shifted.
Sharpness is subjective. We ship our knives with edges that will easily slice through paper. Our sharpening room is littered everyday with these papers.
Hope this helps to clarify.
Let's Drink!
Jerry
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I thought those complaints sounded fishy!
Thanks for the update![]()
As far as the edge goes, it is sharp. I sharpened it with my Worksharp shortly after taking it out of the box. I would have never even mentioned it had it not been for the tube issue. As far as the tube issue, to keep everyone honest I will post pictures of it so nobody thinks my complaint was “fishy”. There was an issue, Jerry took care of it and as long as it comes back corrected, I am satisfied.View attachment 1585567
We did receive the other knife with the purported edge and tube issue. The knife will easily cut paper from tip to stern and the tube is not split.
First the edge. It is paper slicing sharp along the entire edge.
I tested it myself and in the process, totally destroyed a sheet of paper that had all of my secret notes on it outlining every upcoming knife model and date of release for the next 15 years!!! OOOps!!!!
The tube was confusing because it is NOT split. However, there was a burr on the inside of the tube near the middle where the opposing dies come together. This causes no structural issues with the tube, but might prematurely wear out lanyards.
We have tracked down the cause of this tube issue and have fixed it. Turned out to be an alignment issue with the dies, as one of them had loosened and shifted.
Sharpness is subjective. We ship our knives with edges that will easily slice through paper. Our sharpening room is littered everyday with these papers.
Hope this helps to clarify.
Let's Drink!
Jerry
.
As far as the edge goes, it is sharp. I sharpened it with my Worksharp shortly after taking it out of the box. I would have never even mentioned it had it not been for the tube issue. As far as the tube issue, to keep everyone honest I will post pictures of it so nobody thinks my complaint was “fishy”. There was an issue, Jerry took care of it and as long as it comes back corrected, I am satisfied.
Got mine few weeks ago, ups charged me another $6 for pickup because I was not going to be there at for their convenience(which they changed 4 different times ), so that's in addition to the $15 shipping charges that busse tacked by the time I got the knife it lost all it's appeal,I am done buying busse knives