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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.
Sale of Rusty Slate's collection
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The available "Oregon 1416" is a Kershaw "Talon" (Mod. 1416): ATS 34 steel; saber/hollow grind; liner lock (duel full-length liners); G-10 handle slabs and spacer; tip-up carry; left OR right-handed stud; 1/8" thick; 4" blade; 9 1/4" OA open; 5 3/8" closed.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm going to the local knife shop on Monday and the kind man there will be IDing and helping me figure out these swords so I can get better prices and let you know what they are. I hope to find a home for them then. Thanks for all the help you have been so far. To date I have sent Mary $3600 and change. That should at least get the roof started. It's probably also a surprise to her.
So the thought occurred to me.....I wonder how many of our spouses actually know what our collections are worth
Did you save all the reciepts to help them in an emergency Or at least take pics and keep an inventory somewhere to help them Got me thinking about it, so maybe ya'all might want to think about it, too. Of course, stashing the damaging evidence away to only be found when needed would of course be a wise idea I'm sure for some of us anyway...... 
But in all seriousness, this has been quite a task, that would have been much easier if some sort of accounting had been available. Thanks to Yangdu for knowing about the HI stuff and thanks to some of you for emailing me with info, too. We tried our hardest and it has paid off.
I'm going to the local knife shop on Monday and the kind man there will be IDing and helping me figure out these swords so I can get better prices and let you know what they are. I hope to find a home for them then. Thanks for all the help you have been so far. To date I have sent Mary $3600 and change. That should at least get the roof started. It's probably also a surprise to her.
So the thought occurred to me.....I wonder how many of our spouses actually know what our collections are worth
Did you save all the reciepts to help them in an emergency Or at least take pics and keep an inventory somewhere to help them Got me thinking about it, so maybe ya'all might want to think about it, too. Of course, stashing the damaging evidence away to only be found when needed would of course be a wise idea I'm sure for some of us anyway...... But in all seriousness, this has been quite a task, that would have been much easier if some sort of accounting had been available. Thanks to Yangdu for knowing about the HI stuff and thanks to some of you for emailing me with info, too. We tried our hardest and it has paid off.
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Are the Kershaw Talons still available?
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mamav said:So the thought occurred to me.....I wonder how many of our spouses actually know what our collections are worth
Great question MamaV...and the answer is in the affirmative here. I told my wife if anything happens to contact a few key Reeve lovers here and have them help her out if she wants to sell. I have values for each of my Reeve folders and other knives for which I feel she shouldn't take less.
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I have gone through and reduces the prices and put them in red if still available. So look through again and email with any questions. All the swords are carbon steel. Prices include shipping and fees. Prices reflect what the guy at the knife shop suggested. Thanks for helping.
I have gone through and reduces the prices and put them in red if still available. So look through again and email with any questions. All the swords are carbon steel. Prices include shipping and fees. Prices reflect what the guy at the knife shop suggested. Thanks for helping.
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E-mail sent on Bauchop.
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The Chainpuri & Sirupate I recieved from photo 4 are awesome, almost didn't order the chainpuri, but glad I did, It's now my favorite Khukiri
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Guys,
Kind of painful for me to look at this collection of blades, for obvious reasons. Still, I'm here to confirm that the large, white handled, Khyber knife in the very first picture is, indeed, the one I gave Rusty. I could never forget that knife, picked it up in a dusty little village in Afghanistan. It's the genuine article, well over a hundred years old. The blade is hand forged, of excellent quality, and well patinated. The grips are definitely not ivory, they are bone, most likely from the leg of a camel. The bolsters are iron/steel with some decorative work. The Afghan shop keeper I purchased it from nearly made me drop it by loudly proclaiming the blade to be "poisonous". With the help of an interpretor, I came to understand that it was sincerely believed that the blade was imbued by the smith with a special magic, the extent of which is that any wound inflicted on an enemy by this blade would never heal, and most likely end in death (how a knife can tell friend from foe, I suppose, is part of the magic). I've often wondered if I had the blade examined by an expert, just what the inscription on it would reveal.
Whoever snagged this knife, congratulations, you've got one with "stories". That big knife was quite obviously created to be a weapon, and the imagination runs wild pondering the action it's most likely seen. Take care of it, it still has things to teach future generations about man's violent past.
Sarge
Kind of painful for me to look at this collection of blades, for obvious reasons. Still, I'm here to confirm that the large, white handled, Khyber knife in the very first picture is, indeed, the one I gave Rusty. I could never forget that knife, picked it up in a dusty little village in Afghanistan. It's the genuine article, well over a hundred years old. The blade is hand forged, of excellent quality, and well patinated. The grips are definitely not ivory, they are bone, most likely from the leg of a camel. The bolsters are iron/steel with some decorative work. The Afghan shop keeper I purchased it from nearly made me drop it by loudly proclaiming the blade to be "poisonous". With the help of an interpretor, I came to understand that it was sincerely believed that the blade was imbued by the smith with a special magic, the extent of which is that any wound inflicted on an enemy by this blade would never heal, and most likely end in death (how a knife can tell friend from foe, I suppose, is part of the magic). I've often wondered if I had the blade examined by an expert, just what the inscription on it would reveal.
Whoever snagged this knife, congratulations, you've got one with "stories". That big knife was quite obviously created to be a weapon, and the imagination runs wild pondering the action it's most likely seen. Take care of it, it still has things to teach future generations about man's violent past.
Sarge