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.
Recently completed transactions with crazyfingers and fogdart. The knives received were as described and communication and shipping from both sellers was stellar. Would gladly do business with either of them again!
Had a great transaction with NUTRAMAC he hooked me up with an amazing Monarch with a quickness. In beautiful original condition.
Expect a review thread on it soon-ish. Woot, I can post in two for tuesday now.
I'm glad you like them. Yep. The handle thickness is very variable. Not only by thickness of materials used, but also wrt to the day I'm having and the amount of chasing I'm doing that day. Knifemaking is funny. Sometimes grinds take me 2 minutes/knife/belt. Sometimes they take an hour for just one finishing belt. Sometimes on the same day in the same tray. Handle shaping is the same. This week I was nailing them and it was flowing. After Christmas I went through a couple of weeks where it took 3x as long. They say variety is the spice of life. I hope thats true.
Great trade with Michael (dsarps). He reached out with a knife I randomly expressed interest in on a post and we were able to arrange a flawless trade. I would trade with him again without reservation.
Thank you Michael.
Variety for sure. Love it.
That just like art too. When you are in the flow you lose track of time. Check out the book "Flow"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
-d