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Info?I'm literally about to go nuts waiting for this next drop of NW!!!
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.
Info?I'm literally about to go nuts waiting for this next drop of NW!!!
Wow...already a year. Rest easy Derrick.Been a year already since Derrick passed on to be with the Lord.
One of my favorites.
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Thanks for sharing that. Derrick’s videos definitely showed an enthusiasm for pocket knives that was infectious. I’m glad you are are in better place now.Derrick's videos are really what propelled me into this hobby. I was in a low-spot in life and was reminiscing back to better years (my childhood) and one artifact of those days was a Schrade barlow I purchased with my own money at the base exchange. Long since lost, I set off to find a new barlow as an adult, 4 or 5 years ago, as a tangible token of better times that I could carry with me. My internet searches led the "google gods" to start recommending videos to me and one of them featured Derrick with a slipjoint sporting an arrowhead shield. I'd never seen such a shield before and it grabbed my attention. His warm personality and love of traditional knives had me searching out all his videos and picking up a few new (and expensive (at least to me, then)) slipjoints sporting arrowheads, hot dogs, and clouds. The knives, the people, the KSF videos....basically the hobby...was a little ray of joy in an otherwise gloomy patch of life. Years later, the gloom has passed, but the hobby remains and serves as a reminder of how simple pleasures in life--as well as goodhearted people--can make a difference in the way we persist through trials. I'll always remember Derrick for that. I never met him and he never knew me, but I'm sure obliged to him.