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.
They'll find a way.
It is Karma, have just finished giving this a maintenance tinker when i saw your post. They are great EDC's, mine is Ramshorn and came very sharp, has great F&F, and you are correct, for their price you cannot go wrong.I can’t say enough about this Marbles Sowbelly Stockman. Great F&F and W&T, and the best thing, $14.99!
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. Have a good weekend and stay warm. It is 85 deg. here and i am just about to open the bar and have an icy cold beer, i will have one for you.
. Stay safe and out of the cold.
That’s some great looking ram’s horn! I’ve had good luck with most Marbles. I was so impressed with the stockman I picked up the Cattleman’s Jack and it is just as impressive. It’s a big knife but really nicely done. So, of course I had to try another one!It is Karma, have just finished giving this a maintenance tinker when i saw your post. They are great EDC's, mine is Ramshorn and came very sharp, has great F&F, and you are correct, for their price you cannot go wrong.
That’s where the luck ran out. I thought the cattleman whittler looked good and at 3.5” it would be right in my wheelhouse. Came with extremely weak back spring and in the open position the main blade barely stayed open. They sent me another one, same thing. This one, I think has design flaws, or just manufacturing issues. It’s like the pivot holes are drilled wrong because the back spring is barely engaged when you move the blade, weird deal, and it was like that on both of the ones I got. So they’re eye candy now and sit on a shelf! Have a good one!
I have this lady I work with who had her father pass away. She knows I like knives and she gave me a few of his since she didn’t want to hassle selling them. One in particular I have kept rolling around my workbench. For a long time it just laid there in it’s pitiful semi rusted state. One day I was bored and cleaned it up. All of the brown coating the handle had flaked off leaving the fake bone jigged in white. It’s a larger toothpick pattern in ss and I sharpened it on my stones. Took quite the edge. Now I use it all the time out in the garage. I really have come to like the pattern. I bet they are cheap as all get out...I dunno. It’s an old imperial. Here is a pick of my dog food bag, garden soil bag, bark bag slicer...my cheap love affair. I like it so much I started eyeballing the gec 12 pattern. Maybe one day I will replace it with one.
I have four #12, only really use one, but they are good slicers and they have great ergos!
I think you're doing an amazing job on the handles of your knives with those vinyl "stickers" (if that's what you're still using)!So cheap it’s comical...
But what brand are the knives? I'm kind of a sucker for knives with an anchor shield, but I really like that anchor bolster you have on today's examples!! 
