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.
Just for fun, some handles I have in progress
Curly walnut, Tinbanger
Are you sure? It doesn't look very curly. Maybe it's actually stripey walnut?
Regardless, you are one talented man and have the market cornered for wood handles for GSOs.
Have you made handles out of oak before?
Silver,
It's actually feather/crotch walnut, but that brings out the juvenile 4th grader jokes....
Anyway, yes about the oak. It was actually stabilized ancient bog oak on a 3.5. I would like to do something out of a nice oak burl. Just don't see too many guys ask for it.
Seneca Rocks! Nice!!!
Sure is. Been learning trad for about a year now, still not comfortable leading much, but it's great to get outdoors and on some (real) rock.
Awesome! I love clipping bolts and falling a lot, but trad gets me to the places (both physically and in my head) that I love the most. Seneca is a great place to develop trad skills. I also REALLY like the Endless Wall at NRG. Some of the single pitch trad there is simply world class.
It is great to see another climber here! Cheers!