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.
Whew!!!!!! Looks like it was only a short fall you lucky bugga...............
Bet your blade is just happy being at sea level.......
Some Beautiful Stag Brother !!
I think you made me a little dizzy
That’s exactly what I told her
You are dealing with the best enablers known to mankind and mankind alike hereFinally got a ZT 0640. Pretty sweet knife and smooth. Thanks a lot you enablers haha….
Now time to start upgrading the scales, clip, thumb disc, and maybe some Ti screws.
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The knife that started it all for me was an original AFCK. I was a certified climbing instructor back in the early 1990's, and one day at the climbing gym another instructor pulled out her large AFCK (in ATS-34 w/ G-10 handle scales and a liner lock, IIRC) and handed it to me. That was it... I was hooked. Yours is one of the most stunning examples I've seen. Thank you for posting!I moved over from my Spydies to the Benchmade stash and grabbed the 806-1101 for a relaxing day at home, watching USA v S. Sudan b-ball followed by the Red Sox/Mariners series finale. I got some shots of the AFCK along the way while wandering around the yard waiting for the oven to pre-heat before popping our supper in.
Thanks so much for your appreciation. The 1101 was a grail for me and I only picked it up in the past year. I paid waaaay too much for it, but it was BNIB and something of a unicorn as it was the only one of that run of 400 with uncoated G10 scales, sent to Knifeworks along with two other examples--one coated and the other with a different pattern of smooth blue/black scales--for approval. I feel very lucky to have it, but it's too great a knife to sit in a drawer and gets carried and used.
Thanks, Factor! I got the luck-of-the-draw, when I ordered-it over a decade ago. The newer Boker Camp Knife in stag is now fetching over $300 USD [Yikes!]. They've essentially doubled in price. Almost everything coming-out of the Solingen factory is pricey. They have a large Boy Scout model with Mammoth-tooth inserts for $500 bucks. Nothing quite like a classic. My Camp Knife sees EDC-duty on a regular rotation. Still, and all I might have to pick-up a newer-version, and take-the-pain. Although the newer jacks, don't feature the 'classic' bark stag like my folder does. The Boker German quality is still evident, and awesome!
I have the same ZT scales, and never occurred to me that they needed to be upgradedFinally got a ZT 0640. Pretty sweet knife and smooth. Thanks a lot you enablers haha….
Now time to start upgrading the scales, clip, thumb disc, and maybe some Ti screws.
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She let me use hers for the day, just to see if I thought it was worth the price. It was a lot of money for me back then, but I ended up getting two of the G-10 versions, and then two of the polymer handle versions in ATS-34. I can't remember what those were called, but they were the predecessor to the Pika models. Of those four originals that I bought back then, this is the only one I still have in my collection (circa 1995/96):
