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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.
What blade steel did you carry today?
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Mingecutter
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m390
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It has been Victorinox steel on my regular carry SAK, and VG-10 with my Boker Urban Trapper. This has been the pair for the last couple of weeks.
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Something you don’t find in a budget knife, BG 42. Back in the day when SOG meant something, they made some killer knives.
The AutoClip was a take off on the molded pocket clip. SOG made the tension adjustable, giving the wearer the ability to literally lock the pocket clip with just a roll of the thumb wheel.
It had a crazy for the day, compound grind. Hollow and flat grinds with a single chisel grind on the mark side.
They offered the knife in BG 42 for a very short time. It was too costly to produce and the end users weren’t yet equipped to maintain such a hard steel. IIRC they still make them in China.
Here’s my steel, BG42 on my SOG Mini AutoClip from the 80s
What a far cry the current incarnation in “420 Stainless “ at a 49-53 Rockwell compared to the 59-62 Rockwell of the BG42.
Glad I got it when I did, a little piece of Cutlery history.
The AutoClip was a take off on the molded pocket clip. SOG made the tension adjustable, giving the wearer the ability to literally lock the pocket clip with just a roll of the thumb wheel.
It had a crazy for the day, compound grind. Hollow and flat grinds with a single chisel grind on the mark side.
They offered the knife in BG 42 for a very short time. It was too costly to produce and the end users weren’t yet equipped to maintain such a hard steel. IIRC they still make them in China.
Here’s my steel, BG42 on my SOG Mini AutoClip from the 80s
What a far cry the current incarnation in “420 Stainless “ at a 49-53 Rockwell compared to the 59-62 Rockwell of the BG42.
Glad I got it when I did, a little piece of Cutlery history.
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Nice. But you should identify the knife and the steel. The steel is the topic of this thread.
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Both my folder and fixed blade are s35vn,like this steel a lot
joeldworkin307
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I had a 13c26 Leek for out and about, a V-Toku2 Delica around the house, and a 1095 traditional for an event tonight where I have to dress up.
