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 really do appreciate this. One only has to look at the location of the majority on internet respondents that come from softwood dominant areas. I only wish they wouldn't try to tell me that a knife designed for this area was suitable everywhere. And act defensively when I question them. Obviously in their experience there is only one biome on this planet.:thumbdn:
G'day Brian
Can I say that I am extremely pleased.
It appears that finally there are others here, who appreciate my posts for what they have been originally intended to be, rather than something that is automically taken as being offensive to the majority here.
To those who have taken offense, I assume that you think there is only one country / continent on this planet. :thumbdn:
IMO, for those who think that their local area is the only one that matters on this planet, you really need to pull your head out of your a$$e and realise this is not the case. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Unless of course, you want this forum to be only about people who cruise the net to post internet links that justify why they don't venture outside. :thumbdn:
Regards
Mick
). This in and of itself is a draw for me because I like the idea of passing knowledge along, but it can also make things difficult when dealing with an in depth conversation with someone of limited experience who isn't aware of just how limited their over-all experience really is. Personally in my young life I grew up hunting and trapping in the woods here and commercial fishing in the rivers in this region. I could start fires in the rain or snow before I understood the difference between verbs and adverbs because it was "my job" in camp, and I knew how to skin and process game long before I could do long division. I was wandering five and six miles from home hunting on my own on weekends when I was in the third grade. I was more comfortable in the woods then than a lot of grown men I know today. I am sure that had I stayed here by the time I was twelve I would have thought I knew all there was to know about these woods. Then my parents divorced, my dad moved back to south Florida and at age ten I found myself in the everglades where a lot of previously "known truths" about the natural world no longer applied. Now I had things to deal with that could and did hunt back. It was shocking at first then it was stimulating as I started learning to work with the new environment. Then five years later after a bad turn of events I found myself on my own in the woods of the southwest and realized it was different than either of the other two and much of the learning started all over again. Then I came back here and realized how much I didn't know about this area and started studying again with new tools (the internet and a digital camera). It's a much different world today. I know 18 year olds who couldn't create sustained a fire in a light rain if you sat them down on a stack of fatwood and gave them a knife, an ax, a lighter, and a propane torch. One thing I have noticed in my time on the forums is the lack of passed down experiences in general. They are seen as unimportant by many in our modern world. So my goal has been to pass on as much as I can so I concentrate on the area I am most experienced with, the south east U.S. and leave the other parts of the world for others who are more experienced in them.Is that because my knees are all dirty in that video