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Thanks, Neal
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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Thank you for sharing. While there is no perfect knife, no one wants to buy a knife and have it be so poor of build quality that you cannot even believe it left a factory in that condition. No pride! I have said it before and I will say it again. Buying an American product is NOT . a free pass of build quality. An American company has to earn that Made in USA badge with Better build quality than the overseas companies. Queen has not earned that Badge as far as recent years of production. I laugh when I see Ken Daniels on his Queen video and he talks about pride and build quality and for the customer. A bunch of bunk!!!!!!Don't be shy, tell me how you really feel. lol.
Add to that that I feel the knife market bubble has burst. You can see knives sticking around for sale longer on online dealers and even the secondary on this forum. The crazy prices are not sustaining, and yes even the barlows. So, Queen may have created their own demise.Will, The price climb worries me. I don't have any insider information and I could be completely off. But I see a lot of the same knives sitting on virtual store shelves. If sales are down and you can't ramp up production at low price point, then prices might shoot up in desperation. I am really worried that we're going to lose another one of the few American cutlery manufacturers.
Thank you for sharing. While there is no perfect knife, no one wants to buy a knife and have it be so poor of build quality that you cannot even believe it left a factory in that condition. No pride! I have said it before and I will say it again. Buying an American product is NOT . a free pass of build quality. An American company has to earn that Made in USA badge with Better build quality than the overseas companies. Queen has not earned that Badge as far as recent years of production. I laugh when I see Ken Daniels on his Queen video and he talks about pride and build quality and for the customer. A bunch of bunk!!!!!!
Exactly! You hit it out of the park with your comments. You said it perfectly.I love that Queen uses some higher end steels, interesting covers and some of the patterns are fantastic. I really wanted to give them a chance but kept hearing about issues. I now own 3 Queen made knives, a Northwoods, a Trestle Pines, and a S&M. My thought process was from what I know, these should be premium offerings from them and therefore should be their best work. If this is the case it is dissapointing. I won’t go into all the details but none are top quality knives, all are useable and each has its own character. At the end of the day I have decided to not purchase another Queen made knife. For a little more $ I can get a better made GEC even though it may have a “lesser” steel, for a little less I can get a better made if less interesting Case. There are of course many other brands out there too, right now I’m crushing on my Enigma Knives.
For me, 154cm or s30v would be moot. D2? Nahh. I have plenty of inexpensive modern folders in D2 and 1095 is not much worse.Honestly I love Queen’s patterns and the materials more than most of their competitors (only GEC comes close on those criteria). I also think the Daniels are really great folks trying their best. Quality and execution is my issue, pure and simple.
All things constant, if GEC used D2 this entire discussion would be somewhat moot, aside from supply/demand. And for the aforementioned “dealer and collector hype” over GEC...it is well earned; not all of us are forgiving or groupthinkers.
yeah. Not me. I gave mine away. I did not even sell them. I gave them off.I'm proud of the Queen-made knives I own.
For me, 154cm or s30v would be moot. D2? Nahh. I have plenty of inexpensive modern folders in D2 and 1095 is not much worse.
Honestly I love Queen’s patterns and the materials more than most of their competitors (only GEC comes close on those criteria). I also think the Daniels are really great folks trying their best. Quality and execution is my issue, pure and simple.
All things constant, if GEC used D2 this entire discussion would be somewhat moot, aside from supply/demand. And for the aforementioned “dealer and collector hype” over GEC...it is well earned; not all of us are forgiving or groupthinkers.
My Medfords probably have the best D2 heat treat out of all of my heavy duty moderns. My Benchmade knives in 154cm have been much more corrosion resistant. And 154cm is probably very comparable in price. While my D2 is not rusted out, it does tend to get spotty. As far as 1095, it suites me fine with traditionals as they do not get the hard use as my moderns(As you implied).. So I do not need the toughness of D2. If I did, I would want the better corrosion resistance of 154cm or s30v. 1095 is fine for my traditionals so need for moot.I've had the experience that properly treated D2 is far tougher and more corrosion resistant than 1095. If one enjoys (tolerates?) a mild patina, D2 seems to come close to 154CM or S30V in practical performance, especially in a traditional folder that will rarely see extreme use.