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 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.
Well, I hope you're proud of yourselves, I just had to order one for myself.
If you ordered one, they are discontinued and super cheap--it might be a good idea to pick up a second one. You couldn't even buy a blank of that size for what KaBar is charging, I think my second is going to become a sax.Well, I hope you're proud of yourselves, I just had to order one for myself.
That's a great idea, i've had a similar project on the backburner for a long time with a cheap monster chopper I got a few years ago.
What 1066vik said is about what I do. I keep a spray bottle right there, blast liberally, and go slow. I keep one hand bare so I can check the heat, if it's too hot to touch then back off and cool some more. That's far below the temperature at which the the heat treat would be affected, but I go with minimum risk to keep my sanity. A 4" grinder makes the job pretty quick with less precision, while a fiberglass reinforced cutoff wheel leaves a really nice cut that takes (what feels like) forever. I use a thin Sharpie to mark my line, and I have learned to tape up the metal I don't want to scratch. A couple of layers of blue tape give you the reaction time to pull back on a serious skip. Don't dive in at the edge or it could chip, come at it from the spine side. I learned that the hard way.
She was just too heavy for me, so I put her on a diet. I regret that I had to grind away half of the etching.
I unboxed the Zomstro and found the sheath has a huge pocket in the front, big enough to stick my hand in. Anybody know what this pocket is for?
Hand sanitizer and wet wipes for cleaning off the zombie blood and gore.
The sheath has a separate pocket for the skeleton knife also. Still a great deal on a short machete.
Yeah I saw that, one of the first things I looked for, was kinda hoping to find one in there, but no, just a buncha space.
It definitely is, most of our kitchen knives i'm ashamed to say are just crap including the paring knife we used to have, my wife was always asking me to use the Ka-bar Mule I carried a lot as it stays razor sharp. The Buck is a skinner by intention, but I bought it for a tacklebox knife, re-profiled the back from the drop to the tip to be a little more stabby. But later on I found a blade I liked better for the tacklebox, tried this one out in the kitchen and it works great and stays sharp a lot longer than the cheap stuff.
