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.
That is a very nice example. I have located a number of different makers that made all steel versions. I wonder if that had anything to do with sanitization processes used? I am probably thinking to far down the rabbit hole.
No rabbit hole. That is exactly why they were all metal.
Yessir!!!
Charlie?Those are great, Duncan!!! Now if we could just get a harness spey jack!!!!
Now he has to make oneCharlie?
That is really sweet!!!! What a great knife. Thanks for sharing, Brad.
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Thanks for the confirmation guys. Seemed logical and now I know it to be true. Very cool.
My name is Brad and thanks!That is really sweet!!!! What a great knife. Thanks for sharing, Brad.
I hope your name is Brad
If that doesn’t work maybe a double dog or even a triple dog dare is in order.Now he has to make one
Paul, thought you may find this fact interesting. Well before OH&S regulations, natural cover materials for purely designated spey blades started to become redundant for the reason you mentioned, and also they were just easier to clean. Synthetic plastics started to become the cover materials of choice. Plastic Bexoid was invented just before the second world war when a lot of knife making was put on hold because they wanted the steel for the war effort. But post WW2 Bexoid started replacing natural covers on a lot of spey blades as well as many pocket knives because it was fairly cheap to make and did not have to be sourced. Then in the 1960's Delrin really burst on to the scene and most spey knives were made with that, and nearly every knife company started using it, look at Case. That's your history lesson for the day.
Thanks, Leon!!! I tend not to like the synthetic stuff but completely understand its place in knives. The synthetics that I do like are the plain ones. Not a fan of the jigged versions. Hard to beat for a hard use knife and very easy to service.Paul, thought you may find this fact interesting. Well before OH&S regulations, natural cover materials for purely designated spey blades started to become redundant for the reason you mentioned, and also they were just easier to clean. Synthetic plastics started to become the cover materials of choice. Plastic Bexoid was invented just before the second world war when a lot of knife making was put on hold because they wanted the steel for the war effort. But post WW2 Bexoid started replacing natural covers on a lot of spey blades as well as many pocket knives because it was fairly cheap to make and did not have to be sourced. Then in the 1960's Delrin really burst on to the scene and most spey knives were made with that, and nearly every knife company started using it, look at Case. That's your history lesson for the day.
I'm with you there.
Nice addition to your spey collection. Getting a dedicated spey blade knife with natural covers is a rare occurrence.Thank youSteveC for offering this one up for sale. Straight into the pocket. This is now my oldest GEC which was built in 2009. This spey is going to be one of my favorites.
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