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.
Gabon Ebony is usually black. Macassar generally has a mixture of heartwood and sapwood. If you pull up Macassar Ebony pics on Google, you'll see what I mean. It's kind of a double edge sword as sapwood is softer and will ding easier, but heartwood is more prone to cracking and checking. They are both beautiful though!
Actually, three forty for 2AB.
By pure grace of God, I was at my computer doing interwebs stuff when the notification popped up. I had a hard time clicking the right spots with my adrenaline coursing through me. My nervous, twitchy, fingers had a hard time operating the mousehope y'all made it in to collectorsknives, by the time i finally logged in, reserve was red
, but I prevailed and got in when yellow! 
This will be the second reserve I have been successful with this year. The 83's feel so long ago...Here’s an amazing photo of Macassar Ebony, in one whole slab. The heartwood, which is composed of heart and sapwood, has stripes, but the sapwood, which can be seen on the far right and left sides, do not have any dark stripes. This is the area just under the bark. So the light colored handles with no dark stripes at all could be sapwood, or, they could be cut out of the striped heartwood. Hard so say for sure. In general, the darker is denser.
By pure grace of God, I was at my computer doing interwebs stuff when the notification popped up. I had a hard time clicking the right spots with my adrenaline coursing through me. My nervous, twitchy, fingers had a hard time operating the mouse
To much for me I’ll have to pass at that price.
That really puts in in perspective how large it is. Its seems large than I expected. I guess I'll see when mine finally arrivesSize comparison shot. I had no idea it would be about the same size as the Remington Baby Bullet only wider!
GEC knives are not for poor working folks. If those days ever existed, they are long, long, gone. Now they are for the unemployed and underemployed who have nothing more important to do all day than to refresh their websites and notifications from vendors, and for wealthy folks who can afford to pay flippers' prices. But that's OK - there's always CASE, Rough Ryder, and some Chinese brands.
I don't fit into either of those categories. My job is flexible enough to where I can typically, not always, respond to an in-stock notification to buy a knife or get one reserved.GEC knives are not for poor working folks. If those days ever existed, they are long, long, gone. Now they are for the unemployed and underemployed who have nothing more important to do all day than to refresh their websites and notifications from vendors, and for wealthy folks who can afford to pay flippers' prices. But that's OK - there's always CASE, Rough Ryder, and some Chinese brands.
Well it is being compared to a boy's knife. An 86 is for fully grown humans for sure.
my toddler always trying and grab my knives and my wife says no that's not for tiny humans, it's for big humans. So that got me.
There are many other categories of people that can and do purchase GECs. It takes some effort to learn the in's and outs, however with some patience, want to, and smarts it becomes fairly easy. Those who fail to put in the effort either want someone to do it for them or actually just want to complain. Most probably both. It doesn't hurt to be dashing and funny like me.GEC knives are not for poor working folks. If those days ever existed, they are long, long, gone. Now they are for the unemployed and underemployed who have nothing more important to do all day than to refresh their websites and notifications from vendors, and for wealthy folks who can afford to pay flippers' prices. But that's OK - there's always CASE, Rough Ryder, and some Chinese brands.
Jiki, this isn't quite fair. Some people have jobs that make it largely impossible for them to jump on stock notifications in time to make a purchase.
Are you implying that I do not have one such job? Because I do. Also if you read my post I stated there are many categories of people. Once again with a little effort, want to, and smarts it is doable.
