Did anyone notice?

[oXide]

While I was running around making my sig, searching for silhouettes of the 2 and 16, by the way, I found your post Warrior, thanks a ton for posting those, and if I get the bored time I will make a BK 8 silhouette for you to slap on there. Anyhow, I was running around the interwebz and found several dealers, I don't know if they all of the are BFC dealers so I won't name them, except for one which I just checked against this thread which I assume is fairly accurate given the date: ***List-Of-Bladeforums-Dealers***

Now, the one I found that did match up with the aforementioned (yay, I know a big word!) is Blade HQ (link to BK 16), now on to my reason for posting this.

It has a saber grind instead of a full flat grind, any ideas why? I thought the regular production models were all gonna be FFG, but according the picture, there are going to saber ground versions.

Now, this probably won't have any real affect on anyone, except maybe Ethan, given that he REALLY REALLY REALLY for more than 30 years wanted a FFG 16, and myself because now my one of 250 isn't special anymore....

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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[ac700wildcat]

The normal production run of the bk16 will be ffg. There won't be any normal production saber grind bk16's. The picture that they have is a stock photo that was probably sent out to all the Kabar dealers. If you look at the pic on Tomars, they have the same picture too.

 

[DerekH]

I don't think this means that they are going to be anything other than FFG, just that the picture they had to use was of one that wasn't.

Of more interest is that the picture they have is of a saber ground 16, with the new coating and laser etching. Which means there exists at least one. We need Kabar to come up off that and throw one of us a bone, cause that would be one heck of a collectors item.

 

[oXide]

Of more interest is that the picture they have is of a saber ground 16, with the new coating and laser etching. Which means there exists at least one. We need Kabar to come up off that and throw one of us a bone, cause that would be one heck of a collectors item.

That's what was going through my mind after I looked at it more closely.

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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[CamH_16]

How do you have a sig when your just a regular member? Dont you have to be atleast basic for that?

 

[mrn8]

That's a huge freaking sig.

 

[oXide]

Of more interest is that the picture they have is of a saber ground 16, with the new coating and laser etching. Which means there exists at least one. We need Kabar to come up off that and throw one of us a bone, cause that would be one heck of a collectors item.

That's what was going through my mind after I looked at it more closely.

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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[Arkanian]

That sig screams of compensation...

 

[oXide]

That sig screams of compensation...

I didn't see how big it was until you pointed it out, I'm off to resize the image to a more appropriate level. On a side note, between your comment's tone of context and your avatar, I feel like I just got slapped in the face.
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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[oXide]

Ok, I made it smaller. Is it still over compensating?
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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[InquisitorLord]

It doesn't appear to be a BF sigline, but a user added sigline at the end of his post...
Cool food for thought though even if it is huge

 

[oXide]

It doesn't appear to be a BF sigline, but a user added sigline at the end of his post...
Cool food for thought though even if it is huge

You are correct, I'm stealing OD's technique.
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Food for thought:

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. - Lord Robert Baden Powell, Author of Scouting for Boys and founder and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts (the English one, you know, the one that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout of now.)

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. - "Uncle Dan" Daniel Carter Beard (one of Scouting in America's founding fathers, and author of a revised Boy Scout handbook in the early-mid 1900s)

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Lord Robert Baden Powell.

 

[CamH_16]

Dude, seriously, how did you get a sig when your just a regular member?

 

[mrn8]

All that info in your sig should be on your profile page on not below all your posts. It's flamingly obnoxious. Good thing my phone hides sigs, or I'd have to send Bladite after you with a bottle of vaseline.

 

[The Warrior]

Dude, seriously, how did you get a sig when your just a regular member?

He's just adding it after everything he posts.

 

[CamH_16]

He's just adding it after everything he posts.

Thanks man.

 

[Haze240]

Get rid of that sig. Seriously, it's Waaaay bigger than is allowed for REAL sigs, and not only did you quote three different individuals, you wrote out short biographies for each one. Nobody wants to scroll through that to read posts. Look at other member's sigs, does anyone have anything even close to being that big and obnoxious? Pick one quote, pic one picture, purchase a gold membership and then use your sig line. Please.

 

[RogueBowie]

It could use some toning down...At least it makes mine look smaller haha.

 

[oXide]

Sorry guys, I was trying to figure out the different scaling on here, and as you can see aside from the mini bios and the picture I didn't spend that much time on it, for now I'm gonna reduce it to one quote with smaller text and the image, I'll be upgrading to gold or platinum after the summer starts, I wanna get a 3 year subscription.
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

 

[JWL]

Get rid of that sig. Seriously, it's Waaaay bigger than is allowed for REAL sigs, and not only did you quote three different individuals, you wrote out short biographies for each one. Nobody wants to scroll through that to read posts. Look at other member's sigs, does anyone have anything even close to being that big and obnoxious? Pick one quote, pic one picture, purchase a gold membership and then use your sig line. Please.

This. I don't mean to be rude, and I'm a relative newb on these boards, but in general for forums it is bad form to have a sig that is on average 2x longer than your posts, including the quotes in your posts. And further on this board you aren't even supposed to have a sig until you get a paid membership, so don't "cheat" the system.... a basic membership is like $10 per year, then you will be able to have a real sig within the rules.