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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Looks like you've been using that knife, Vince! Cool!
Dang Charlie !
I take a friend out for dinner for a couple of hours and you come up with these.
Both great knives, but I do favor the Empire. I like the way the spines of both blades are paralel when open, but I especially like the end cap on the Empire. It's square with the bolster and is a compound curve, instead of the usual single radius. The long pull comes back into the tang a bit too. Were the Alvords English trained cutlers ? It's little details like that, that just aren't found on modern factory knives. Those old cutlers were artists.
I'm gonna take my Wolfies and Schatts and hide for the rest of the week.
BTW Ken, Change my vote for a eureka on your poll to one like THAT.
Fran
The tang lamination is a characteristic of NYK punches
Them are two very good lookin' knives Charlie. :thumbup:
Only the clip on the Cattle knife strikes me as odd, I just cant quite put a finger on what it is about it.
Peter