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.
Awesome! Probably obvious, but I’m partial to Rotts. Love all dogs, but Rotts have a special place in my heart. He looks like he’s got a lot of personality.Thanks dogboye!He just turned one year old on the 17th.
I bet... you got one of my favorite color combos to..beautifulI can't believe how easy it was to chop into that log. The Forsaken Mistress has a real bite!![]()
That looks like maroon linen on the nuke rather than maroon canvas micarta.
That BURP is sexy, wish I could’ve gotten her.It does!
Wherever they source the cloth from uses some pretty densely woven canvas with tight weave. Since it's a natural fiber base there can be variances and this stuff seems to be on the upper end approaching the fineness of linen. On the other end of the scale you'd have the more coarser stuff like burlap and coffee bag.
here's some Maroon on a BURP, note the tight, uniform weave especially on the end cuts and in the tube holes:
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compare with some black linen on a squatch, quite similar in the tightness and closely stacked layers of cloth:
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more Maroon on my V8, a bit coarser batch it appears, note the surface fibers and you can see the less dense weave and <somewhat> looser stacked plys around the holes:
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The stuff onroenman 's Nuke looks like the dense stuff...good stuff!