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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I had never handled one either! It's very nice. Although, unless I am missing something, what turned me off was that the 2 small blades seem too similar to each other to really justify both their presences. It's like a whittler, in that the large blade sits on both of the little blades' back springs, but why have them virtually the same? Yeah, I'm probably missing something....
I am also surprised. I very nearly took the BPS myself, I like friction folders and would like to buy a BPS knife at some point myself. But my kids had selected a fair number of knives, and I wanted to leave some of the more desirable options in the box. I guess I overestimated how desirable the BPS was, I only left it there because I was sure someone else would grab it.
One Wharncliffe for opening boxes, one Wharncliffe for picking splinters, and one Wharncliffe to keep pristine for emergencies. Eminently practical blade assortment.
Color me convinced!
Someone else calls them splinters and not slivers. Splinters are wood, slivers glass and metal
IIRC - One of the small blades is stainless and one is carbon. It is easier to touch up carbon (and they get razor sharp) when you need one of them little blades super sharp for carving.
That's interesting. I didn't know that about those
Ya. The little one marked “carbon” is, well ya, carbon. Haha. The unmarked small one is SS.That's interesting. I didn't know that about those
That's fascinating - I had no idea that was ever done!
DocJekl
and to you too
Side O'Beef
for keeping Jack’s
mrknife
idea going for the century mark. By the way
Side O'Beef
if this is the GEC 12 that you put in the box that I won a while back I have to thank you again because it has become my most used GEC in my years here and also the most surprising. A superior pocketknife.
That is definitely the one that I put in the box! I am thrilled to know it's getting so much use!Congratulations
I'm jelly!Congratulations
Here you go:
