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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.
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Don't have any advice, but here are a few things that crossed my mind reading your post.. . . I'm surprised at this price point, not to get a perfectly vertical grained sapwood handle. Thoughts?
Yes, it's a crap shoot.Perfect vertical grain is a one-in-a-thousand item. . .
Don't have any advice, but here are a few things that crossed my mind reading your post.
As far as I can tell, CT doesn't say what the grain orientation actually IS. They just say "The grade A hickory handle is selected for grain orientation and density". You pays your money and takes your chances.
Yes, it's a crap shoot.
Just for the heck of it, here is your grain orientation:
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BMC is the only place I've seen to mention grain orientation as nickzdon states here (post #33) ". . .handles which specify grain orientation parallel to the bit with no more than 20º deviance left or right."
Bob
So here's the one that broke on me recently. Grain looks pretty good to me, and use was not hard. Crack appears to go all the way through to the eye. It was stored in a very dry place however.
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The handle should work out just fine. We get on the "grain train" because of whatever reason. Don't believe the hype. Go use that thing, and I would highly doubt it will break due to the grain. Most will break due to operator error, poor storage, and poor maintenance.
Problem with their specs is it overlooks 'runout', which is singularly the killer of most curved (and straight!) handles.
A few years ago Margot Council told me Velvicut handle specs were 20 degrees and straight grain and they were hard to source.