Matthew Gregory
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This shit is too cool. Awesome project with two awesome guys.
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.
I wonder if you would't mind sharing what the composition of the particular beta-titanium used for this blade is. And how that was settled on.
TIA!
I have a bit of a specialty going. I don't know of many other people who do what I do with blades in the field, finding usable corridors through the rainforest which will eventually become trails.
The use of large knives- how I use them- is very abusive, but not because I don't take care. Only because the stuff I have to cut requires a lot of force, precision and the plants out here bite back, and sometimes destroy steel tools. I spend hours at a time cutting brush of many various types and textures, often working myself to exhaustion. When coupled with this activity, my interest in design constantly evolves with my experience. Anything that makes it easier to cut, and minimizes maintenance is of great interest to me. Also, a lot of this work requires hiking in, sometimes up to an hour off trail just to get there, so weight is always a consideration. As a gnome sized person, reach is also important.
Many of these variable work at cross purposes and I'm convinced that I will never find the perfect blade for all considerations, but that's what makes the pursuit so endlessly fascinating.
mecha- Not only are you a smith but you are a scholar.
rolf
Insane in the membrane.
In a very cool way.
Agree--more more MORE!!!
Time to set up the GoPro.
Any comparisons coming to mind yet, with similar steel blades?
Lorien,
This is totally irrelevant but why are you trailblazing at night?
Seriously dude, you watched too many zombie flicks.![]()