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.
^ THat looks kinda like the Tom Krein Pocket Bowie my friend. Tell us more![]()
A very nice blade.
Here is a pair I have posted elsewhere, but not here. A couple of old pre-war Camillus blades.
Camillus Sportsman pattern early 1930's
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Camillus sportsman pattern late 1930's
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A discussion in another thread here brought this subject up. The young member was wondering if other forumites could offer any advice on the subject of the medium to large fixed blades. And I thought a thread broadening the subject a bit and detailing uses of this most basic of knife designs with pictures of collectibles and users alike may be worth exploring for a change.
I'll start off with a Rick Smith custom bowie from his Bear Bones forge in Rogue River, OR. Its built with O-1 tool steel(one of my favorite blade steels) and a full tang design with old pre-ban elephant ivory scales around a classic coffin handle and a brass oval guard. The blade is nearly 7 inches and 10 3/4 overall. I wear a sticker of some kind at work nearly every day and it cuts like the dickens. In fact, today I cut square holes with it on a run of exposed a/c duct work where the grills are to be installed throughout an office building I am remodeling..
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Put together some pieces I've had kicking around for about a year now.
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Piece of antler from the local Petco, an old-stock Old Hickory knife blade, and some lead-free silver solder to hold everything together. It feels nice and solid and balances well in the hand. Wants to move and cut, and there's a nice clean little bald patch on my arm now. I had to cast the solder twice; the first time it didn't fill the cavity well and the whole assembly rattled in the antler. Pulled everything apart, melted the solder back off the tang, and did it again. Heating the tang and coating it in pencil graphite seemed to help a lot. There are some ugly bits where I poured some solder on too late and it formed a seperation line, but I'll know better next time. I'm pretty pleased.