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.
..It is some sort of rubber composite?..very positive grip in hand ....FESWow, beautiful. What's the material in the checkered part of the handle?
Actually, my favorite knife to wear on the shoulder strap of my gear has been a Gerber Command I since 1981. It never got in the way, and the size and serrations were much handier whenever I had a parachute malfunction and had to cut away my main canopy. Best knife I ever found for that. For a backup, I've stuck with my old late-1970s Mark I's. For a heavier belt/ brush-cutting, fighting knife, I have several... my Korean-War vintage Randall, inherited from an older brother. The Kabar/ Ontario standard 7" blade knives, especially the recent Kabar with part-serrated blades. And on some up-close-and personal silent-kill situations, either my old Gerber Mark II or my early, scarce, non-serrated Command II (4-digit SN.) Combat/ field knives for Special Operations guys, as I've noted, vary depending on what knife is needed for the job at hand. I realize that a bunch of my combat knives are worth a good bit of money, but to me they're like firearms-- tools of the trade that get used, not stuck away in boxes ... RLTW/ DOL