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.
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damn wheres OP to translate this for me? i have faith in ya j. you wouldn't do it if it weren't going to make a better product :thumbup:
The longer a piece of metal is, the harder it is to control its behavior under extreme temperature excursions. What the company can offer Jeremy is much more precise control of temperature and of rates of change of temperature throughout the entire body of his longer knives (and swords). This control is what is needed to keep a longer knife from warping.
You'd be surprised how much trouble we aerospace types have to go to when materials with different coefficients of expansion have to be used in a single system. The differences might appear small when looking at the number, but temperature extremes bring those differences out and cause stress, warping, and cracking. It's a serious problem, believe me.
I think Jeremy's wise to check out these more advanced methods.
Thanks for the layman terms OP.
It makes you real unpopular at parties.![]()