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.
No shame there, Jim. All of my mugs are clean now, too. I still sleep the same way as well, picking myself up to roll over so I stay within the size of a Navy rack.I'm ashamed of my mug ... it's clean
No longer my primary EDC mug, nor is the Demo my primary EDC
But man, what great memories when I have hands on 'em
I guess I'm trying to be a civilian but I have a queen size bed and still only sleep on >||< that much of it, even after 15yrs
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The ones I’ve done, I did as shadow patterns without bolsters and it worked fine, if you’re into that style. The liners have the notches for the cover tabs but it’s not too noticeable.I had a hard time with it, mostly because I wanted to keep the original bolsters. Being stamped metal, they dented and malformed easily.
But you had a great idea in making your own out of scrap metal! Nice work.
I may have to try that~ make barlow bolsters next time I take apart a Camillus TL-29.
How do you like that imperial stockman? I was thinking about purchasing it aswell. But i’m not sure yet.I'm finding it to be a real challenge to stay caught up with this thread for the past several months, at least. So I did a little "research" to see if there's a reason for my constant "falling behind". I counted all the posts in this thread from the first one posted on December 1 to the last one posted on December 22. Then I did the same thing for the same range of dates in 2018. Here are the results:
2021: 1785 posts in 22 days, for an average of 81.1 posts/day (or just over 4 new pages per day)
2018: 1632 posts in 22 days, for an average of 74.2 posts/day (or just under 4 new pages per day)
I was shocked, to say the least!![]()
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I'd have sworn this thread has significantly more "traffic" recently than it used to have, but a difference of 7 extra posts per day seems insignificant to me. I have to conclude that I'm getting very inefficient as I get deep into my golden years!
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Anyway, here are more of the knives I'm carrying this week.
Sowbelly stockman of the week is a cracked ice version made in China by Imperial:
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Regular Stockman of the Week is an 897UH (thanks, Dean):
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Budget Canoe of the Week is a Rough Rider stag bone model:
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Premium Canoe this week is a Case amber jigged bone with CV blades:
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- GT
There it is!
Beautiful photo Gus, definitely nailed the classic theme with the bells and that knife.