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 feel like their blade steel also punched above its class price wise.Those shell handled Imperials may have been inexpensive knives, but the celluloid on some of them sure had character.
Sorry for your loss. May you and your family find peace and comfortGoing lightweight today. This bugger will be plenty, Sawcut green bone SS Peanut.
Heading out to bury my father.
There will be a lot weight on me today regardless.
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I suppose they cut the slim swedge afterwards, which makes it look closer to the spine. But I agree with your assessment. Thanks!I'm impressed with how close they got the nail nick to the spine of the blade on the electrician's knife. These are classics.
Or feeding a still…Isn't cracked corn also used for Hominy and/or Grits, among other things?
Sis-In-Law must have the best fed birds, squirrels, deer, turkey, and pheasants in the area.![]()
I hope you enjoy them as much as I am enjoying the knives you sent meToday my wife and I crossed the border into the good old USA and picked up a very generous package from fellow porchster J Just Tom.
Muchas gracias mi amigo!
At a parking lot in the good old USA, opening the package with excitement and admiring its contents.
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On the international bridge over the Saint Lawrence River.
If you are able to see this picture it is because we were able to make trough customs and I am at home in front of my computer
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Thanks again Tom !
Two Okapis rehandle by Tom ( one with brass liners and black locust wood) and two boat themed folders
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One of the rehandled Okapis besides its original handle
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