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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.
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Skookum Bush Tool
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From what I understand Rod Garcia is not a full-time knifemaker. Far from it.
If I were to venture a guess, he makes knives at a pace, so that knifemaking doesn't become a drag. He only makes that one knife, so it would be pretty tiresome to just make that one knife all day, every day.
It would however be advised, to update his website, with more accurate timelines.
If I were to venture a guess, he makes knives at a pace, so that knifemaking doesn't become a drag. He only makes that one knife, so it would be pretty tiresome to just make that one knife all day, every day.
It would however be advised, to update his website, with more accurate timelines.
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Congrats on the knife! Pricing seems very in line with other makers in the same style and quality. Now... the secondary market is another story... but given the scarcity to popularity ratio...
Seems very similar to the American Knife Company Forest and Compact Forest knives. Be curious to see them go head to head in a comparison. As far as I know, they aren't making any more of them, but pricing is more reasonable on the secondary market at the moment.
Seems very similar to the American Knife Company Forest and Compact Forest knives. Be curious to see them go head to head in a comparison. As far as I know, they aren't making any more of them, but pricing is more reasonable on the secondary market at the moment.
The AKC forest is a pretty close replica of the skookum, not the other way around.
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I like the shape for a bushcraft knife. I would not be willing to wait years for one. I have shifted to Kepharts for the woods these days. But I like a pointy woods knife overall.6+ years for a puuko ?? that seems a really long wait, but from one of the other posts I was expecting a 600+ price tag
If you really got it for half that, it seems in the reasonable range
here is the pic in case anyone hates to load external tabs
I don't understand why you don't just call it a knife. Bush tool....?
Henry Beige
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I listed it as one of my favorite knife names, but not because it’s a good name for a knife.
frozenfire
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Don't mind the hate in this thread!
Congrats on your new SBT! Rod makes a great knife!
Congrats on your new SBT! Rod makes a great knife!
Congrats to your Skookum bushtool,I have three of them,great bushcraft knifes which outperforms all woodlore designs imho,
they actually are real survival tools also,you can beat the snot out of them and they are still going strong,love the buttplate
to hammer on,go out and use this piece,enjoy !!
they actually are real survival tools also,you can beat the snot out of them and they are still going strong,love the buttplate
to hammer on,go out and use this piece,enjoy !!
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Helluva wait, but patience is a virtue. The Mors connection to this knife is cool. Looks well designed and will be a familiy heirloom.
mndart
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A number of these SBTs are going up for sale in the $450 to $500 plus range in recent days... one with a rolled edge if you can believe it... and it sold! I mean no offense to any of the folks posting these knives... it is their knife, they can ask whatever they want for it, and it is their good fortune that it is worth it to some to have one of these at any cost.
You can still order one from Rod for $200 or so... I would probably pay around $400 for one that was new.
Me, I am patient, but in truth I am too old to wait 6 or 7 years... lol!!
edit: Ironically, I decided to post up a Turley in trade for SBT and it worked out for me... I like the SBT. Was is worth it? Sure! Why? Because I wanted to have one.
Peace out!!
You can still order one from Rod for $200 or so... I would probably pay around $400 for one that was new.
Me, I am patient, but in truth I am too old to wait 6 or 7 years... lol!!
edit: Ironically, I decided to post up a Turley in trade for SBT and it worked out for me... I like the SBT. Was is worth it? Sure! Why? Because I wanted to have one.
Peace out!!
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The Skookum is basically that one tool option many of us have been searching for, a stout unbreakable knife that can handle abuse but is also very good at delicate precise tasks. you can baton a sapling down with it, and also skin a squirrel or gut a small perch. The only thing it doesn't do well is chop.