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.
With enthusiasm, it's full steam ahead!To stop using ELMAX steel.
Some nice thin folders in CPM 154 would be really nice.![]()
I have owned many ZT's; primarily 0350's, 0360's(collab), 055x, 056x series. They have all been excellent knives, but I don't carry them because they are too large/heavy/thick for my EDC purposes. I realize that ZT made its bones with heavy-duty knives, but I wish you would consider a model like this:
Use 0.150" titanium slabs instead of 0.200" titanium. Give me a 3" max blade length (tip to grip) of a good steel, Elmax, CPM-154. Make the handle long enough to fit my large hands...the 4.58" length of the 0550 is fine.
Basically, a 0550 with thinner slabs, blade-thickness of 0.140", but just 3" max tip to grip. The 3" max will eliminate legal hassles in many states and municipalities. I carry knives of about 3.5" blade-length, BUT only because I need the longer grip-length to fit my large hand. The blade itself could be a max of three inches and be just fine for all of my uses.
Now you have a knife, lighter but still heavy-duty, a 3" max blade of good steel, legal nearly everywhere, and only 0.450" thick grips instead of 0.570" thick. This would be a knife that I could/would carry. I really dislike fat grips, and they make me walk lopsided...
I don't need bearings and I dislike flippers. Bronze washers have historically worked just fine and last forever.
I applaud you, KAI, for listening and posting here.
SonnyDaze
With enthusiasm, it's full steam ahead!![]()
Lots of good wishes in this thread...
Nail Clipper...
Let's see when you can crank out that nail clipper, Thomas![]()
That was the strangest one last year and it was more than one person (none of them me).
I'd love to see a Tilt 2.