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.
I've tried to register a few times for their site and succeed, but typically find my account is no longer active after a week or two. Not sure if they regularly purge western e-mail addresses or what. It's very odd.
I really liked the unique white/blue initially. I just didn’t really carry it much due to the white, and the white lanyard. Yes it got dirty pretty fast lol.
To me it looks like the blue accents are blue and glued into the white scale (2 separate pieces). They look like they were separate pieces at one point.
The steel on this F3 is CTS-40CP, but a lot of them were Elmax. I really love the comfort of the F3, and this SRBS fires like a rocket and as drop shutty as my other MRBS’s.
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and the little driver. Pretty pricey, but should help me from boogering any more screws lol 
That's a really cool bearing race design. I've never owned a Shiro, and so my knowledge on them is very minimal, it looks like they designed that race though so that if you know where that little opening on the side is (when the knife is assembled) you can get a drop of oil inside the whole bearing system without taking the knife apart. I suppose you'd want to assemble it to where that tiny cutout is facing due forward so that you know where it is, and you have the shortest amount of reach to get to it when the knife is assembled. That's what it looks like to me anyway.I’ve probably missed it in here, but curious if anyone has order replacement/upgraded bearings from the guy on eBay?
I did, mainly because I was afraid I would lose a bearing…. or 5 when dismantling.
I got one set of the ZrO2 Zirconium Oxide Ceramic (or equivalent) and one set of the Si3N4 Silicon Nitride.
I installed the white to start (mainly because they look cool haha). I don’t really feel a difference, didn’t really think it could get much better as the action and detent on it were near perfect. It does seem like the SCHWACK upon opening is a little dampened.
I did splurge and get the Shirogorov 3 pack tool kit from
I’ve probably missed it in here, but curious if anyone has order replacement/upgraded bearings from the guy on eBay?
I did, mainly because I was afraid I would lose a bearing…. or 5 when dismantling.
I got one set of the ZrO2 Zirconium Oxide Ceramic (or equivalent) and one set of the Si3N4 Silicon Nitride.
I installed the white to start (mainly because they look cool haha). I don’t really feel a difference, didn’t really think it could get much better as the action and detent on it were near perfect. It does seem like the SCHWACK upon opening is a little dampened.
I did splurge and get the Shirogorov 3 pack tool kit from
That’s definitely something I can keep in mind next time It comes apart.
I requested and received bearings directly from Shiro before the war in Ukraine, I’m not sure if or how that may affect the process
Ahh I see what you mean, yeah that's a cool modification and application for that. I like it! Maybe it can double for both uses.
I think one of these is for sale on the Shiro B/S/T Facebook groupShiro started to sell "repair kits" (screws and bearing balls) not long ago. These kits are intended for specific models, you need to choose the right one for your knife. Some of them are available from R1 at the moment.
By the way, I stumbled upon the pictures of quite unusual pivot upgrade for F95T Gen1 — 75 tiny ceramic balls per side, how do you like it?
Valeriy a.k.a. Dept13 was the first owner, he replaced the washers with the custom bearings and sold the knife to someone on a local forum 6 years ago:
