Attention Well, what form should our BF Forum knife's bone handles take for 2021??

Bone format??

  • Smooth, beveled

    Votes: 152 41.8%

  • Sawcut

    Votes: 172 47.3%

  • Jigged

    Votes: 40 11.0%
  • Total voters
    364
  • Poll closed .
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I think we are nearing saturation, based on the vote counts we have seen before.

Meows the time to change votes to “Smooth Beveled”! We will take care of you. Bring us your scratted, your tire tread, and your pony cut lovers... bring us your Rodgers, your peach seed and pocket worn fondlers. You call it “Smooth Beveled”, but it’s really “pre jig jigging”- the ultimate statement in jigged bone.
 
Snodgrass said:
Well jigged is pretty much a burned vote at this point. You may want to vote strategically if you'd prefer smooth over sawcut.

I thought about it long and hard and I'm going with smooth. Orange, blue or white would be my preference.
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GEC have produced some superb jigging, but for me, this pattern will look better with smooth bone. I think it would look good with ebony too, but we had that on a forum knife recently. Smooth ivory bone, with steel liners, will knock it out of the park for me. I'm rarely enthusiastic about forum knives, they can be a bit of a dog's dinner, but this year's has the potential to be a real classic :thumbsup:
 
EngrSorenson said:
I think we are nearing saturation, based on the vote counts we have seen before.

Meows the time to change votes to “Smooth Beveled”! We will take care of you. Bring us your scratted, your tire tread, and your pony cut lovers... bring us your Rodgers, your peach seed and pocket worn fondlers. You call it “Smooth Beveled”, but it’s really “pre jig jigging”- the ultimate statement in jigged bone.
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Hey meow, I see what you did there.
 
We don't know for sure that smooth bone will be white, but if it is, that's a safer choice since it can be dyed any color you choose.

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Jack Black said:
GEC have produced some superb jigging, but for me, this pattern will look better with smooth bone. I think it would look good with ebony too, but we had that on a forum knife recently. Smooth ivory bone, with steel liners, will knock it out of the park for me. I'm rarely enthusiastic about forum knives, they can be a bit of a dog's dinner, but this year's has the potential to be a real classic :thumbsup:
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I wasn't trying to steer anyone away from jiggin' in general. GEC does some fantastic jigging. But they are way behind and don't have a chance in the poll. I always support any knives in ebony or african blackwood. But an 86 in dark wood 2 out of 3 years would be a tad much.
 
Snodgrass said:
I wasn't trying to steer anyone away from jiggin' in general. GEC does some fantastic jigging. But they are way behind and don't have a chance in the poll. I always support any knives in ebony or african blackwood. But an 86 in dark wood 2 out of 3 years would be a tad much.
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Not at all, I've been rooting for smooth ivory bone since the beginning, and hope some of those who've voted for jigged bone move over :) It's certainly a close race :thumbsup:
 
There's a good chance the regular run will have a jigged option.

Slim to no chance at all you will see a smooth, flat surface bone, with beveled edges. Look at what Charlie has come up with in the past, not a dog among them. Come on jigged and saw cut folks, let's go with Charlie's pick. Please consider changing your vote.
 
cbr1000 said:
Smooth beveled
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It's almost like sawcut anyway.

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All the arguments for smooth bone being classic, traditional, and aging well also apply to saw cut bone. Probably more so. Saw cut voters, do not let these please from those with straw arguments sway you, stay with what your heart told you from the beginning. A black knife is what we would have gotten if it had been wood and a white knife is what we will get if it is smooth bone, because these things always revert to the mean.
Saw cut voters stay strong.
Jigged bone voters come to saw cut.
Smooth bone voters it's not to late to be apart of something special.
 
Jiki said:
All the arguments for smooth bone being classic, traditional, and aging well also apply to saw cut bone. Probably more so. Saw cut voters, do not let these please from those with straw arguments sway you, stay with what your heart told you from the beginning. A black knife is what we would have gotten if it had been wood and a white knife is what we will get if it is smooth bone, because these things always revert to the mean.
Saw cut voters stay strong.
Jigged bone voters come to saw cut.
Smooth bone voters it's not to late to be apart of something special.
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Saw-cut is VERY traditional, but it won't go as well with those bolsters as smooth bone. Look at the Washington Jacks above, they'd have looked terrible with saw-cut, which is why Charlie didn't make them with saw-cut, he knows what works on a particular pattern, and what doesn't. I think this knife would look OK with saw-cut, but it won't look anywhere near as good as it could. As for ageing, smooth ivory bone ages better than just about anything, with the possible exception of genuine ivory, it has a richness of tones and colours, and gets more beautiful as it ages. Saw-cut bone is great, but I don't think it has that :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Saw-cut is VERY traditional, but it won't go as well with those bolsters as smooth bone. Look at the Washington Jacks above, they'd have looked terrible with saw-cut, which is why Charlie didn't make them with saw-cut, he knows what works on a particular pattern, and what doesn't. I think this knife would look OK with saw-cut, but it won't look anywhere near as good as it could. As for ageing, smooth ivory bone ages better than just about anything, with the possible exception of genuine ivory, it has a richness of tones and colours, and gets more beautiful as it ages. Saw-cut bone is great, but I don't think it has that :thumbsup:
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Couldn't have said it better myself. No one will find straw arguments in the smooth bone camp. We do need to remember that the bolster is the Center of Gravity for this knife. This isn't just a barlow. It's not even a Northfield-trim barlow. These are high end bolsters, and the handle slabs need to match.
 
We should have done the color poll first. I voted sawcut, but if the choice was red sawcut or smooth ivory, I'd definitely pick the smooth ivory.....
 
I think the good folks at GEC can do some amazing bone jigging. I have a few examples that bear this out - a 2015 Yankee Jack, and a couple of Charlie's Diamond Jacks from 2017, for example.

But they always (to me) seem to get sawcut bone done so well on their Barlows, with all the right flats, bevels, and squared off ends. I'm lucky to have a couple of Charlie's sawcut TC's and a couple of Mike's sawcut NF's. I certainly would have room for, and welcome another! :cool::thumbsup:

On the other hand, I would be fine with the smooth, beveled covers if they emerge the winner. Hopefully they will actually be beveled, flatted, and squared in all the right places. ;) :)
 
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