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.
Mixing it up a lot lately.
S21 Tanto with stone-washed slabs and leather lanyard.
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The small Tanto blade is extremely useful for a very limited number of tasks it does really well. For most everything else, it’s less than ideal. As a small EDC, in my opinion, it’s more of a curiosity than an optimized blade shape. I am sure the large version has much more practicality. Still love carrying it regardless.
I’ve got two large tanto’s, this and a micarta Inkosi. I’ve never had a small but as far as the larges go they ain’t that bad. Definitely not the most practical or my favorite shape but they’ll get the job done. It took me a little bit of adjusting to get used to a tanto but once I figured out the best way to use them for the task at hand it became second nature. In my opinion I haven’t really found anything in my usage a tanto does better than an insingo tho