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.
Wow awesome show going for Super Bowl Sunday! Thank you all for show your knives today.
Thank you James and Armand for your BCCI 119 photo's, truly beautiful knives. I was asking to see if there were any issues with the edge grind on any of the other knives in this custom issue. I had posted in an older thread about the one I had that was poorly ground cutting edge. It turned out that the clip edge was ground off center and no matter how much of the cutting edge was removed the poor edge remained. Buck offered to replace the whole knife. However were out of the S30V blade blanks. So they made me a replacement that I had been dreaming of for a few years, Thank you Jeff.
Here is the new Coated S30V blade with Aluminum and Elk.
JB
PS: I spent an hour writing and great post and as I was adding photo's my computer glitched and the whole post was gone. So the above is the short version by an totally irritated individual
. To bad the lost one was great.
Agreed 100%. Computer glitches are a real bummer.
Really like the coated S30V blade in your photo. I don't see that config as often as stainless. I've read in a couple of threads that such a coated blade is harder to take care of. Not sure in what aspect, e.g. sharpening, cleaning, etc. Do you find it okay? Any differences in how to maintain a coated blade versus stainless?
I have one knife that has a coated 440 steel blade, but I'm not posting a photo as it is not a Buck. But I'm considering building a custom Buck 112 and putting a 420HC black oxide blade on it. Looks very cool against a light-colored wood handle. My non-Buck looks close to that, too.
Anyway, thanks for posting....very sharp-looking knife!