Jacques Mi
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For a forum knife I believe it should be in a size that is legal in most countries.
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.
For a forum knife I believe it should be in a size that is legal in most countries.
It's like Groundhog Day, Rachael!"I don't want it unless it's a GEC."
"I don't want it, if it is a GEC!"
"Everyone should be able to get one."
"A collectable is only valuable if someone else can't have it."
"I have no intention to buy one, but here are my strong opinions on the matter, anyway."
"PunchNut!"
This is true... for sure!The vast majority of members would be happy to have another GEC without the scramble.
I'm new to the forum but interested in the forum knife. How would someone sign up? Thanks.
And they're checking it twice.The mods have a list.
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Hopefully Charlie will have a little luck in his conversation with GEC. OKCA was able to offer a 38 whittler as their club knife. Price was $125 + 10 for shipping (not bad for three blades). It was a small run though of just 100. Maybe we could run off this frame with a farmer jack, or just a single hawkbill blade?
As long as you put it THAT way, Gary, I feel obligated to chime in with my annual post about a Forum Knife:It's like Groundhog Day, Rachael!
Stick around anyway.Hmmm ... If I'm "lucky" I might be able to spend $100 to $150 a year on knives.
$25 to me is a lot of money to spend on anything based on my quote/unquote "income". After I pay my rent/R&B at the assisted living facility, I have roughly $40 a month left over. (Edit: I haven't owned a vehicle since 1995 or 1996. I decided then that gas and insurancs cost way too much.)
If I were to leave and get a senior apartment, I'd have even less after rent, utilities, and the grocer. In fact, I'd probably be in the hole.
I guess I should stop coming here, because I can't afford better than the basic Rough Ryder, have to save up for a BTI Old Timer, and I'm guessing the vast majority of my posts over the years have been non-contributing to whatever the conversation was?
I've never once in the years I've been here suggested the price be adjusted to fit the poor, nor to adjust the price to be exclusive to those with six and higher figure incomes.But I submit that financially, you are an extreme outlier. And IMO it does not really make a lot of sense to tailor any BF knife or its price point to such an extreme outlier, just as it would not make sense to tailor to the folks here with annual incomes in the mid-six or seven figures. It is literally impossibe to cater to everyone's tastes and personal situations here with such a diverse crowd, but I think it is a good goal to please most folks.
I'm going to expand the idea I tossed out on page 3: Benchmade Proper with uncoated M4 blade, Dymondwood scales.
I don't know if Benchmade has ever made club knives for anybody, but they do make dealer exclusives, including for DLT, a supporting dealer here (and one that hasn't gouged everybody in the GEC lollyscrambles).
- Proper - a tradition-inspired knife, quite popular, but not made in this configuration.
- M4 - the benefits of a super-steel, but it will still patina like a traditional knife, and Benchmade uses it for other things.
- Dymondwood - looks good, very tough, Benchmade uses it for other things.
@Jordan@DLT is this just crazy talk? Or can something like this happen?
-Tyson