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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.
Here's a pen I made
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Wow. That looks quite masterful. Excellent:thumbup:
Masteroffajitas
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Nice, I like the rainbow one.
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That's really nice, I love how you did the clip. I just wish you were still making cranks. 
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Thanks guys. Yes, it was labor intensive, but the original one had a clip that retracted into the body and extended at the push of a button. The end also had puzzle pieces that you could post the cap onto the body with. It also had randomly colored puzzle pieces. Now THAT was work!
There were manufacturing issues in getting the parts, including some mechanism parts that were laser welded, to all keep the level of precision I needed for that to work. Parts were made on several different machines, so zero points were lost in the various operations. I had to make complex fixtures to do each of those steps, but I saw that it was the aesthetics were off a bit. I didn't like the pen body being as short as it was and the cap was too long. I couldn't fit the retracting mechanism into something shorter, so I went back to the drawing board and extended the body one puzzle piece and subtracted one from the cap and made the clip fixed.
There were manufacturing issues in getting the parts, including some mechanism parts that were laser welded, to all keep the level of precision I needed for that to work. Parts were made on several different machines, so zero points were lost in the various operations. I had to make complex fixtures to do each of those steps, but I saw that it was the aesthetics were off a bit. I didn't like the pen body being as short as it was and the cap was too long. I couldn't fit the retracting mechanism into something shorter, so I went back to the drawing board and extended the body one puzzle piece and subtracted one from the cap and made the clip fixed.
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I keep coming back to this thread just to look at that thing...what a work of art.
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That is simply amazing! Great work and thanks for sharing, Mr.Boone.
Quality and craftsmanship like this has no price! These are subtle works of art worthy of a famous art museum, not the 'modern crap', the real deal, we're talking Picasso quality! I used to work for a company who's owner would purchase items such as these for himself, and the employees as a show of appreciation. The outings on his mega yacht were enough to satiate my desires for any 'perks', but I would've love to have received one of these as a gift.
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That one took weeks to work out and about 20 CNC programs to hand write. It also takes about 8 hours to inlay the wood into the titanium and finish it. They look nice, but they're a lot of work! I do enjoy making them though.
Here's another I call Flame. It's made to stand on a desk or be carried in a pocket. It has a 3 lobe section that twists to fit a right hand. A mirror version could be made for a leftie.
Here's another I call Flame. It's made to stand on a desk or be carried in a pocket. It has a 3 lobe section that twists to fit a right hand. A mirror version could be made for a leftie.