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.
You can Strut!After a Seki City Saturday with my Al Mar Eagle UL, I followed up with a Seki Sunday with its companion Eagle HD. Yesterday's carry was also motivated by a bit of kidding betweenKettleman and myself regarding my Shiro F3's blade being only S30V. I figured the UL's AUS8 steel would show how truly low I could go, regardless of it being one of the sharpest out of the box I'd come across as it easily cut my thumb with only the lightest touch on one of its initial openings.
On the other hand, this Eagle HD, generously re-marketed my way unsolicited by our friend @Barman1 a while back, is taking me in the opposite direction of those lesser steels with its nicely re-profiled, laminated ZDP189 blade. Can I hold my head a little higher now?
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A study in bevels
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