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.
We already have a knife-discussion forum. It is here and now. I see no need for a knife non-discussion forum.
Should you change your mind, the non-discussion forum already exists.
And should you make more hunters and bowies at Farr's shop than you know what to do with, there are forums here to help with that, too.![]()
Fine then there's no need for one more forum. If you don't want any discussion on your knife, post it in the gallery. If you're ready for your knife to be discussed, post it here. I can live with that.
Perhaps a thread or sticky with a code of conduct or guidelines for Critiquing might help.
For Frak's sake, there's no need for a friggin' "how to". All you need is to be polite (e.g., don't hijack threads to address something unrelated) and decency (be considerate in your comments). People who forget that will not change their behavior based on an how to. This is not a professional critiquing congress - this is a place where makers, collectors, users, enthusiasts discuss custom knives.
No, this isn't a place where enthusiasts have come to discuss custom knives. It is a place where a few outspoken collectors have tried to maintain control and impose their personal tastes and preferences on everyone else, at any cost to the group as a whole, through intimidation and disrespect.
Joss,
Add me to your list.
David
Coop,
This forum is where we discuss custom knives. If one posts a knife here, it should be free to discuss it.
I would agree to a rule saying that knives posted on the gallery are not to be critiqued.
What I have 0 interest in is a forum where a knife can only receive feedback if the thread says so. If you post a knife here, it's open to being discussed (politely). Of course, there's no guarantee.
I find myself in agreement with Tai Goo and others saying something is not quite right. Just would like to lend my support to these knifemakers :thumbup:
This year I took a couple knives to the Vegas show, I took them to put them in the hands of some collectors to get feedback and also to put in the hands of other makers to find out what I need to work on most , what they like/dislike and overall opinion.