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.
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. What the name of that little blue bird and the red eyed duck in the pictures. Never seen them before.
Lazuli Bunting is its name. About the size of a sparrow but way more skittish.
Oregon, Lapis Lazuli, well there's a stone for the ages an painters....Nice layout.
Kind of hard to come by now-a-days due to the unpleasantness in the region. I've seen photos of one of the mines and lethal booby traps (IEDs, a stuffed toy bunny, for example) along the mountainous trail leading to it. I like blue, deep blue, but this stone is somewhat porous so polishing usually uncovers pits and some can be large and surprising to the diligent stone worker.