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The simple, elegant, classy feel of the #15 in hand

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.
Thanks for the mini-review, Heath!Yep, good lock bar release, no play, nice thin grind, pretty good steel, and as you say,, sweet blade shape. The opening is very cool too! Every time I take it out I wonder why I don't carry it more!
Neal, I'll have to get mine out and check but I think it's a two spring. 1095 carbon steel blades. Post number 15 in the link below lists the handle materials and how many were made of each.View attachment 828147 I’ll play!![]()
Railsplitter and
The Fort : hey guys just curious, those incredible Northwoods Railsplitter Moose, are they a single spring? They are as close to a modern Surveyor pattern as I’ve seen. Jake, @supratentorial , gave me a lot of information on them once, I hadn’t realized Northwoods had had them in their lineup at one time. Dare I hope in D2? I wonder if Jake has one. Was black the only color for them? 25!!!!!
Thanks, Neal
PS-my god people, what gorgeous knives!
PS-interesting that there were almost double the number of stag made, but perhaps that was close to a Sambar release year.(India only allows sales periodically, as I’m sure you knowNeal, I'll have to get mine out and check but I think it's a two spring. 1095 carbon steel blades. Post number 15 in the link below lists the handle materials and how many were made of each.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/new-railsplitter-moose.798434/
It was Jake that I got these two from.
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Rick faaan-tastic! Is the top one, one of the ivory models, or did I miss pearl on that list? Those definitely belong in the Queen pic thread! I’m surprised Jake would let them go in some respects, knowing his fondness for the pattern.
PS-interesting that there were almost double the number of stag made, but perhaps that was close to a Sambar release year.(India only allows sales periodically, as I’m sure you know)
That's a gorgeous Carpenters Whittler.I've got a few that will fit this category. 3 Queen made Tuna Valley knives, 1 in ebony wood, and the others in buffalo horn.
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