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.
Did you ever see Indiana Jones and the scene about choosing the grail?
Untitled by Pinnah, on Flickr
Somewhat seriously, I think Bob Loveless pretty much nailed it with this quote...
For me (and me alone and YMMV), when a knife becomes so dear to me to that I can no longer treat it with "a certain familiar contempt", I no longer feel in harmony with the knife. It has begun to own me, not the other way around. I learned this skiing with some hard chargers, who had a saying, "All skis are rock skis". It's very freeing to treat tools with contempt and I don't ever want to be burdened with a knife I fear loosing or breaking.
Did you ever see Indiana Jones and the scene about choosing the grail?
Untitled by Pinnah, on Flickr
Somewhat seriously, I think Bob Loveless pretty much nailed it with this quote...
For me (and me alone and YMMV), when a knife becomes so dear to me to that I can no longer treat it with "a certain familiar contempt", I no longer feel in harmony with the knife. It has begun to own me, not the other way around. I learned this skiing with some hard chargers, who had a saying, "All skis are rock skis". It's very freeing to treat tools with contempt and I don't ever want to be burdened with a knife I fear loosing or breaking.
As for me, probably a custom from Gayle Bradley, Sinkevich, or Demko.
That is a very tough question.
It would be a locking folder, with a traditional look. Tortoise (backed by gold leaf) or mop backed by platinum foil, or gold lip backed by gold leaf.
A locking Whittler pattern perhaps. Or a sportsman pattern.
I have a few pics saved, but it's a pain in the butt to search from my phone.