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 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
And yes I did dump a bunch of knives a month or two ago, lol.
To paraphrase Jeff Randall, "90% of the knife business is bull$h!t..." I'd add car, electronics, clothes, and everything else business.
Also, marketing has become so powerful that the NSA has nothing on Google, as far as tracking your every move and thought in cyberspace. Marketing is designed to make us feel we need to buy something we don't really need at all. That's why my neighbors have new cars every few years.
), I have sold off much of what I've bought since joining BFC. It was liberating:thumbup:
Yah well... it so happens that Codger_64 lives just down the highway, literally, from TOPS. And I will be stopping in next week to meet with the owner and marketing director to pick up some knives and equipment to review. Stay tuned.
Yah well... it so happens that Codger_64 lives just down the highway, literally, from TOPS. And I will be stopping in next week to meet with the owner and marketing director to pick up some knives and equipment to review. Stay tuned.
We both seriously doubt that will happen, right? However I will be looking into a couple that fill different roles than my favorite pair of classic Schrades. And some small survival items and pocket kits. And their new twig stove hopefully. We'll see.
I have never found anything better and I have tried out a lot of knives.
Outdoorsmen of every ilk seem to go through phases of development and I am no exception. We, most of us, start out simple without much baggage and gain experience. Then later we start looking at ways to make things better, easier, safer, more comfortable. Then maybe finding ourselves (or gear closets) overburdened, seek to lighten the load. Eventually we settle on what works for us and stop buying every new froo-fraw that comes along. I'm still on that journey myself but I am getting there.
I was hot for this one also. But I got rid of all my Beckers except for the 5, I do try to keep it down. My ESEE 4 and 6 are going nowhere though. I was practical with ESEE and stayed with what worked for me on a more practical level. Do I need two Izula 2's ? with 15 Moras on hand ? I'll just slide past that one at this time.
The 6 was great, but too large and too small at the same time for me. The 4 went after I realized my $10 Hultafors GK at 1/8" cut very well, but could also be hammered through trees The Junglas went after I discovered I really preferred khukuri. The 5 just went, as awesome as it was. My work truck/duty knife is a DPX HEST in Sleipner steel. It will handle all my unexpected emergency needs (including opening bottles).