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.
That's a Tatanka that got quite a bit of time on the grinder from me![]()
So I read through the first 10 pages and the last 5 pages, and this seems the perfect place for my question. I'm trying to assemble a top 5 of "ridiculously fun folding swords." My totally arbitrary rules are:
From what I've read/seen so far, I'd put my working list as follows. Would love to hear suggestions for other options to consider.
- only one knife per company (Otherwise they'd all be Coldsteel)
- in the sub $250 range
- Available to purchase (not discontinued/sold out/custom.)
Thanks!
- Cold Steel - Espada XL (Half the posts here are this knife, it's a fun one.)
- Kizer - Megatherium (Considered the Sheepdog XL instead, but love this design.)
- Svord - Giant Peasant
- Boker Magnum - Pocket Kukri (Seen some QC issues, but still a fun one.)
- Working on the 5th - let me know your suggestions.
The Harsey blade profile is brilliant, almost iconic, and certainly immediately recognizable. My Gerber Harsey Air Ranger II is an outstanding knife, even in Gerber's early 2000s mystery steel (which seems to behave like a well tempered AUS8, but I am no authority on that), largely because of the profile and grind of the Harsey designed blade.I just searched back through my more recent entries here and find I've neglected to post my most recent large knife acquisition--another Spartan Harsey Folder, "naked" to use the description of our friend @Kmikaz3 .
My NW edition is really too pretty to beat on, but the SHF is such a sturdy beast and so solid in hand that it begs to be used hard so I grabbed this one off the Exchange for just that purpose.
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BTW, I've since bobbed the tail on this one to make it more just a pull and better keep it out of the way.
I'm glad I finally got around to the Spartan Harsey Folder as it's one I'd been eyeing for a number of years. It didn't take me long after acquiring one to pick up a second. For what seems at first glance to be a somewhat chunky blade, it's surprisingly thin behind the edge. I murdered a bunch of cardboard a week or so ago to feed into our Russian fireplace, and my S45VN NW SHF just flew through it. Everything about the knife from the blade shape and grind to the locked-in handle design and the raised, jimped thumb ramp makes the knife an exceptional cutter and workhorse.The Harsey blade profile is brilliant, almost iconic, and certainly immediately recognizable. My Gerber Harsey Air Ranger II is an outstanding knife, even in Gerber's early 2000s mystery steel (which seems to behave like a well tempered AUS8, but I am no authority on that), largely because of the profile and grind of the Harsey designed blade.
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I'm glad I finally got around to the Spartan Harsey Folder as it's one I'd been eyeing for a number of years. It didn't take me long after acquiring one to pick up a second. For what seems at first glance to be a somewhat chunky blade, it's surprisingly thin behind the edge. I murdered a bunch of cardboard a week or so ago to feed into our Russian fireplace, and my S45VN NW SHF just flew through it. Everything about the knife from the blade shape and grind to the locked-in handle design and the raised, jimped thumb ramp makes the knife an exceptional cutter and workhorse.![]()
Damn you....I rarely preorder knives, but the hot second I saw the Ritual it went straight into my cart. This Folts design feels like it'd be right at home in Cold Steel's catalog; I would never have imagined CRKT releasing a 4.5" Persian-style flipper.
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Damn you....
So I read through the first 10 pages and the last 5 pages, and this seems the perfect place for my question. I'm trying to assemble a top 5 of "ridiculously fun folding swords." My totally arbitrary rules are:
From what I've read/seen so far, I'd put my working list as follows. Would love to hear suggestions for other options to consider.
- only one knife per company (Otherwise they'd all be Coldsteel)
- in the sub $250 range
- Available to purchase (not discontinued/sold out/custom.)
Thanks!
- Cold Steel - Espada XL (Half the posts here are this knife, it's a fun one.)
- Kizer - Megatherium (Considered the Sheepdog XL instead, but love this design.)
- Svord - Giant Peasant
- Boker Magnum - Pocket Kukri (Seen some QC issues, but still a fun one.)
- Working on the 5th - let me know your suggestions.