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.
Mr.sig239
That’s too Damn cool bro 
. Spot on too, looks great 
"Havoc" I saw your pic and had to do this! The lighting on my monitor makes yours to bright.
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that’s crazy on the money for the OZ to blade length!
Beowolf Agate
what are your thoughts on that Hati Gen3. Does it really live up to the hype?? Would you take the Hati Gen3 over the Quantum Gen2? Thanks 
It's a nice knife. Fit and finish are great! People just starting out in the Shiro world would do well to pick one up.
Is either the blade or the handle milled to match the washer’s angle or does it just sit that space exposed? Could it be an early version of the washers they use for bearings?
Mr.sig239
what you have in your fingers is the Bearing race that holds the ceramic bearings. Unfortunately with these pre 2014 F95 they have the tapered bearing race instead of flat and they have the channel in the Ti for the bearing to run in. No way to do SRRBS on these. The Only ones you can MOD to put the SRRBS in is the MRBS. Hope that makes sense 
Well I have both the Hati Gen3 and the Quantum Gen2 and they're both beautiful knives, and I wouldn't choose one over the other. They each have different handles (CF vs milled Ti) and blade shapes, so they are just...different. Buy both if you can would be my recommendation. Probably not what you wanted to hear, lol. Good luck!I’m really really eyeballing that Shiro Hati CF Gen3. But I have a sneaky suspicion that since it’s based on the F95 they will be dropping a new F95 Gen2 with the captured pivot. But Damn, that Hati CF Gen3 only weighs 3.9oz
Anyone else who owns the Hati Gen3 is more than welcome to chime in too.
Good. So ease of disassembly. Makes sense. So one can now use a screwdriver on the recessed pivot screw, and the opposite screw will not turn. Always scrstched my head about my other Shiros having one recessed and one non-recessed pivot screw, which was always (to me) difficult to secure.
I think that once you get above titanium (pricewise) the other available materials are just for looks. ie: Timascus, zirconium, mokume etc... Zirc doesn't look particularly beautiful to me compared to some of the other metallic materials, but then again I've never handled it.
Oil-slick Zirconium is some pretty special stuff - different makers can finish it to a different degree
Seems like Zirconium is more for aesthetics than practicality where titanium for the handles or S125V, ZDP-189, etc. for the blades are chosen for their performance characteristics.
