Rose and Thistle Custom
Josh Mead
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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.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Nice job! Does it play like a Gibson? That'll be the test!This used to be a Gerber Big Rock camp knife. I bought it because I liked the compactness of it, as well as the blade shape.
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Soon I found the synthetic slabs that didn't cover the tang rather uncomfortable. So was the pinkie hook, which I believe had a lanyard hole. I don't remember why I de-horned the thumb ramp.
Rehandled in Gibson Guitar walnut off-cut, in as-rasped finish. I like this knife a lot, though I just rediscovered it while looking for something else.
I know Gerber is supposed to have gone to hades after selling to Fiskars, but I don't believe it.
Nice. Those look like they came from the factory like that.I've cobbed up a few ratcliffe muskrats recently & fine tuned the profile ... I think these are my best to date:
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I've cobbed up a few ratcliffe muskrats recently & fine tuned the profile ... I think these are my best to date:
I did this after I saw one of yours on here and also too that hump down on the clip. It looks almost like a California clip. One of my favorite EDC's.--KV
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Depending on the audience I was thinking 50 years could be too long ago or too soon. I kind of amused myself with it though.Lol...![]()
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Maybe if it were polished the dirt would have less to attach too. I don’t know how fibrous rag micarta is though.I posted this a while back in the “what traditional are you carrying” thread but thought I’d post it here. This is my second attempt at a re-cover. Another Klein electrician with rag micarta. It had gotten kind of grimy from carrying it, so I cleaned it up a bit and put a bees wax finish on the scales. We’ll see if that keeps down the grime.![]()
You may be right. It seems pretty smooth, but a bit porous. I thought the wax might fill the pores. Polishing might help, I just didn’t really know what I was doing.Depending on the audience I was thinking 50 years could be too long ago or too soon. I kind of amused myself with it though.
Maybe if it were polished the dirt would have less to attach too. I don’t know how fibrous rag micarta is though.
Depending on the audience I was thinking 50 years could be too long ago or too soon. I kind of amused myself with it though.