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.
I was lucky enough to nab a matching SN# Set 50/50.
Their actually quite nice knives, (as you might expect)
Stock thickness is greater than stated on the website, which makes them quite beefy little knives.
Here are the stats i measured:
- Overall length unsheathed: 7.75"
- Overall in Sheath: 8.5"
- Stock thickness for Seax: .133"
- Stock thickness for Kwaiken. .142"
- Blade Cutting edge: 3.2"
- Knife Weight: 3oz
- Sheath Weight. 1.4oz
Despite the thick stock, i was able to cut some pretty delicate items such as an over ripe tomato with no problem what so ever, and they are monsters on cardboard.
(and yes, chisel edge, v grind)
Sheath retention is on the weaker side, perfect in my opinion, not so much that they will fall out, but if shaken very violently they can be dislodged.
Ergos on both knives are quite nice, hard to say which is my favorite. I think the kwaiken might be a little more neutral, making it a bit more of a win win for anyone, while the seax is "more ergonomic" if your holding it choked back a bit in the saber grip, at which point it becomes a bit more '3 fingery'. If you try a traditional, 4 finger grip on the seax, pinch grip is great, but if you try putting your thumb on the wave, it ends up feeling a bit early/cramped. That said, its easy to choke up on and use the pointer finger along the spine for good tip control.
Both knives feel fantastic in reverse grip.
Over all i find myself more attracted to the look of the seax, but i keep reaching for the kwaiken, i feel like the seax is a more "edc" design, which the kwaiken is more tactical/spike-esk, which im finding really appealing.
The finish they put on these knives is maybe the most interesting aspect, its different on each knife, and is honestly nothing ive ever seen on any other knife. It gives an almost woodgrain/damascus type appearance, very very cool.
Anyhow, I posted a first impressions video over on the Youtube if you want to see more of them.-Roe
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