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.
Great pair, Patrick!Brown Bullocks today
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MH, love that old boy! I’d be proud to carry it.![]()
When you're burrito is to stuffed to bite into, Challenge it!
purposefully left hot sauce and tomato juices on the blade bout 20 minutes, she's starting to look a LOT better. Many may have read the sad saga of just prior to my ownership someone used like 400-500 grit paper to "shine it up" for an estate sale. Rebuilding a patina on a grand ol girl like this is something one shouldn't have to do.![]()
Fortunately it wasn't buffed to death on a wheel. Just looks like they held the blade pinched in some sand paper, and rubbed it. Left quite a few scuff marks, but didn't get onto the tangs,and the grinds around the swedges are still good. I hated the scuff marks, so I put an worn piece of 800 grit on a flat smooth surface and SLOWLY worked most of them out. Finished with a pretty worn piece of 1500 grit. I figured someone already destroyed the original patina, I just wanted to get most of the scuffs off. You can still read the blade etch when the light hits it right.MH, love that old boy! I’d be proud to carry it.
I have also bought a couple that had unfortunately been fluffed ‘n buffed. It is a sign of a Fool With A Tool, but once in a great while, if they haven’t buffed the tang stamp right off, you might get a good deal ~as long as you’re a user like me, and not a serious collector.
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Brown Bullocks today
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