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.
Nah, I'm fine with 'em. Actually I kinda like 'em--they're the iconic, simple Shirogorov boxes. I always got a kick out of the squiggly little paper accordion spacers too.
I feel like the little flaps at the end of the boxes are going to fall off after opening and closing them enough times. I do store almost all of my knives in the boxes - other times we complain that some Buck Knives boxes are way too big (Buck 110/112) and some are more compact (Vantage or Paradigm Shift), but either ones are nicer than the Shiro box that's a step above paper but a step below cardboard.Nah, I'm fine with 'em. Actually I kinda like 'em--they're the iconic, simple Shirogorov boxes. I always got a kick out of the squiggly little paper accordion spacers too.
I don't keep the knives in their boxes anyway, though a few makers' boxes are stored more carefully in the bottom of my large knife cabinet--Shiro, CRK, and Cheburkov. The rest are in shoe boxes in the loft. The Shiro boxes are also appreciated as they take up almost no room, though I gotta say the Cheburkov boxes are quite nice and their newer ones are very sweet. Chris Reeve packaging has evolved a lot over the years and is well done, but it's almost too much and takes up a lotta space. I vote for keeping the skinny little matte black Bear cages.
That would convince me to pull the trigger too there’s not one thing that isn’t aesthetically appealing about it .I'd been ogling Shirogorov knives for some time and had been PMing about them with a few members here, soliciting opinions and guidance before taking the plunge early this past summer. One who was particularly cordial and helpful offered me the knife pictured below and it became my first Shiro. The second followed closely on that one's heels and a third showed up at my PO just earlier this week. Needless to say, I totally love these knives and there's lots to say about them, but all I'll mention for now is they share the seemingly contradictory qualities of being both over-priced and completely worth it.
Anyway, I've searched back a ways and haven't found a Show Us Your Shiros thread, so please do just that as well as sharing your thoughts and comments on these fantastic knives.
Edit: It's a wonder this thread ever got off the ground with that crappy picture I had up here to start. Let's try this one of the Python slithering through some fungi....
...Yeah, that's better.
and the only reason to keep it is to avoid drop of re-sale value in case I decide to trade the particular knife.
I forgot which model it was but I remember receiving one that was too small for the COA to actually fit into - it was combined with the box in a ziploc.
Have the usual boxes changed some? My Quantum Ursus NL came in a dark brown, not the usual black, box, though the color might be related to the Ursus line. The major difference, though, was in the proportions--deeper--and that the packaging included a slide-out tray like my F95R, unlike my other, older knives. The QUNL also came with a white, horizontal COA, not unlike that which came with my Russian-sourced F95R. It's always been my impression that the black vertical COAs one gets with knives from R1are filled out here and, if the blanks are unchanged, they wouldn't fit in the interior trays and could end up rubber banded to the box. A bit cheesy for such expensive pieces? Yeah, probably, but really incidental to the quality of the knives IMO.
Get ready for F3 Outdoor TODAY!
Similar to 111 Outdoor -- with a leather pouch instead of pocket clip, but sadly Cromax PM, not Vanax 37.
On the makers side they were gone in 7 minutes.
I expect MSRP $700.
A few pictures from the official announcement:
I'll go to the website through Chrome--Google translate works well enough and is often quite amusing.
