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 got a Swissbianco “officer” with a caplifter, a vanilla Yojimbo 2 because Michael Janich was at the booth, a new prototype Olamic Soloist, and some nano oil.
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Thanks man! I really like the Soloist. It is a huge slab of M390 and the action is top notch. I love the action on the tip-heavy blade swinging out. I went in knowing nothing about Olamic knives, just had heard of them, and tried out all the knives they had, this was my favorite. I was playing with the whippersnapper and asking the older Russian guy about it and he was like, "Me, I like big knife," and sold me on the soloist. There was a ton of variation in how the different Soloist prototypes felt on deployment, depending on whether and how they were drilled, textured etc. and I really wanted to want the entropic one but this one stood out as feeling and sounding the best when you flip it. The thumb stud tends to cause you to press the detent and lock it shut if you move it too close to the pivot, and kinda gets in the way of cutting if you've got it midway down the blade, but I like it. I love the blade shape too, I didn't even try out the pointier variant. I was just admiring your haul, looks like we have kinda similar interests but I'm a couple years behind yaHell of a haul, there!! What do you think of the Soloist? That knife is just beastly. The rest of those pieces are sweet also!
Wait, there's a Fellhoelter Ti-Bolt that uses G2 refills? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
You all are killin me - thought I had enough Olamics already!
I'm really torn between the Whiper' and the Soloist - I always end up getting rid of smaller knives, but that is such a great design.
Quiet - much jealousy for that dagger Rainmaker
Comfort-wise, how do you like the all ti handles compared to the contoured overlays on the custom Rainmakers?
That little thing is so cool... Evan, do you have a gallery of your work and details?
Wait, there's a Fellhoelter Ti-Bolt that uses G2 refills? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Love the new Arno Bernard Rinkhals slip joint knife. I just picked up one direct from the in Thunderstorm Kevlar handles. Great pickup! I would love to attend Blade some year.I also went to meet up with friends new and old. Was my first time going to bladeshow. Wow! Lol. 10’s of thousands of knives and i only left with two. Lol.
My greatest joy was the people i saw and got to have conversations with. Some friends i had never met face to face, but have chatted with for a long while.
And...doh! I forgot about “the pit”. Never made it there. Oh well, theres always next year right?
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