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. Alocal hrdware store going out of the knife business had a slew of them for 17.99 but they were serrated. Wish I'd bought more than 1.
I had one and lost it, then searched all over for another one, and now have a second one on order. This is, as far as I am concerned, the perfect knife. I've only recently become aware of the fine edge version, and would really like to get my hands on one of those. I found it here:
http://www.setocut.co.jp/ok_imperial.html
But, I am pretty leery of ordering from an overseas outfit, especially from a site that I cannot even read! I don't even think they have provisions to ship to the US.
I believe that if you are patient one should come up on the bay. Just check once and a while or set up saved searches. Better than going overseas to get one.
4,800 Yen = $57.00 USA dollars before shipping.