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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.
Wood is like water. So maleable and fluid, yet so strong. It is amazing that it can do that to a strong piece of steel. You are definitely getting a workout.I'm editing this initial impressions review right now and am just reminded how blown away I am by this knife. It's good stuff!
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Has it been two weeks yet??We are currently putting several tests together that will highlight these differences.
Same! Eagerly awaiting more testing from the mothership.Has it been two weeks yet??
WebLooking forward to seeing what you guys have cooked up…
That looks like a 35-40 ft throw. That's a long shot.![]()
I am yet to find handles that fit my hands better than those RES-Cs!As for knife steel, we've all seen the Nos files...
but has JoeX ever sprayed any of his "favorite" knife handles with DEET? Now we're talking real world survival destruction tests....
That's why I'm a INFI/sr101 + Res-C user for life.
After watching all of his videos (or nearly all), he looks to me like an under-cover Cold Steel agent rather than trying to prove non-euro expensive knives are crap. If you watch carefully:The skrama did not perform better than Busse in his test even without taking into account his bias for the skrama. We counted the hits and the skrama failed earlier, by quite a bit. But the skrama is also a lot cheaper at $115(with a handle).
As for sending joe any more knives. Why? there is literally nothing to be gained by sending knives to someone who is trying to proves non euro expensive knives are crap. He is 100% inconsistent in his testing and he is totally biased. Seems to me that his tests are more entertainment than anything else. The fact that he screams about lillys knife which got the feather duster treatment, by comparison, says it all.
Clearly you’re mistaken - just look at this.I might be mistaken, but his bias for Cold Steel appears to me more obvious with every new video.
Very true. Only downside is the non existent customer service. But for $37 I guess you can’t worry about it much. Depends what knives you get from Cold Steel. I wouldn’t spend north of $150 unless it’s an older discontinued model.I don’t care who you are. The value for what you get for what you pay for Cold Steel. Can’t be beat. Folders anyway….
Their folders are untouchable. You can get a 4 Max Scout on sale for $37. Nothing. And I mean NOTHING can come anywhere close to what you get.
I. Want. Scandinfi!
I fully agree with that and the price-to-performance of CS.I don’t care who you are. The value for what you get for what you pay for Cold Steel. Can’t be beat. Folders anyway….
This was back in 1999.Along those lines, Mike Turber recently snapped 1" off a Busse Basic by flexing it past 50 degrees. Out of curiosity I took a 12" Ontario machete and jammed the tip in a stump about 1" and flexed it to determine the fracture point. I bend it so the handle was past 90 degrees to the tip (which was distorting the wood so the actual bend angle is a little lower). Does this indicate the 1995 machete is "tougher" than the Basic? No, it can handle a much larger flex because it it thinner and a little longer. However what is important is that I bent the machete with one hand with little/no effort. It took Mike all he had to bend the Basic. The strengths are very different.