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 will agree with that but that's going to be a large portion of un-coated carbon steel if we do such a grind.
Again, guys, this knife is being produced by specs from the SERE guys. Personally, I would rather have full flat grind but they know what they want and that's what we'll do. Not trying to be a jackass about this but it's just the way it is since it's a knife spec'd by others. We were going to add a pry bar to the pommel and I even drew it up in Autocad and sent them copies. They rejected the idea, saying that even though it would make a for a good tool, it would catch on things and they couldn't have that. Instead they want a pointy pommel like the RC-3.
We did a pry bar pommel a couple of years ago for some EOD guys. They took the protos to Iraq and used them and they worked but the pry hook no matter how we made it kept getting in the way of how the knife was used and carried 90 % of the time. SO we shelved it.