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.
GEC#62 Golden Rod for Tuesday.
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Great pattern and I think the Camel-Bone is my favourite, it's a tough choice mind as all the options are so goodI see you've opted for matte look on the bolsters, I'm the opposite, every matte finish bolster I get always visits the strop, even CASE/Bose Collabs
This would exclude that ludicrous Sausage Comb bauble GEC are successfully peddling though, I wouldn't give it house room
But, I like it shiny
Thanks, Will
My Cocobolo Pocket Carver and Micarta (for Micarta Monday) 2013 O1 tool steel Bull Nose today.
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Good morning! I’ve put these in my pocket for today. A Northfield Jigged Bone #48 Improved Trapper is keeping my Wright’s Ebony large Lambsfoot company. Y’all stay safe out there!![]()
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I would never say spear points are my favorite, but that long slender spear and pen could change that. Wow. On a dogleg, no less! Beautiful.
Same, but in stag. Thanks, Ed!For Tuesday:
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Rosewood Harsthead Barlow lambsfoot, aJack Black SFO. Unexpected but welcome gift from @Modoc ED.
Some days the schedule is tight and you need to maximize all moments if you want to get your porch participation in.
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Hope everyone's week is going OK, so far. Got my Hartshead Barlow, and a Camillus What-A-Knife, gifted to me by Barrett @btb01 , today![]()
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Thanks for your reactions to your fine new saddle horn, Chuck.Thank you Gary, this is my 1st venture with a Saddlehorn and I'm quite impressed, very comfortable in my hand and I'm a sucker for single bladed knives, also it is a looker for sure.
I'm a little slow - I didn't catch your "on the fence" comment until the second time I looked at your post.I was on the fence about carrying my Buck 301 today, then I decided to go with it.
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A couple of pairs of astonishing aged aces, JJ!
Thanks, Jeff.
Quite an adventure for that knife, Alan!Good thing this is a user. First my friend sharpened it for me because he thought it needed it (maybe so), then because it developed a patina he thought he ruined it (he didn’t), so he sanded it down. The upside, no worries about getting it scratched. HahahahahaView attachment 1417428
I enjoyed the pics of your nice knives and your companionable canine, Jeff!Saturday, and the rain continues. Just a light rain, but over the past few days, it’s adding up. The trees are sighing in relief, the grass is greening up again, and the huge cracks are disappearing from the ground.
Two of my all time favorite patterns today, nothing fancy or collector worthy, but for sure User worthy.
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Very cool photo, Dean!I'm carrying my Ancient bone Teardrop today.
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Thank you, Gary! Your A.Wright desert ironwood Lambsfoot is an eye pleaser.![]()
Thanks, Dean & JJ; Jack Black got some incredible ironwood for his SFO lambsfoot.Thank you Gary!!!
Great threesome for you today; the desert ironwood covers on your lamb are marvelous!![]()
Thanks for the Scruton synopsis, Joshua.Thanks, GT. Scruton was an English philosopher who sadly passed away back in January. He wrote an excellent introduction to the topic of Beauty for the Oxford "Very Short Introduction" series, and he is one of the last great public intellectuals. He's probably most popular for his defense of Burkeian Conservativism (as in Edmund Burke, the great English statesman and early opponent of the French Revolution).
The Soul of the World is Scruton's defense of immaterial meaning over and against the contemporary scientific reduction of all explanations to biological necessity. It isn't a defense of religion, per se, but certainly of transcendence and the sacred.
The thing I like best about Scruton is how clearly he communicates. Even very difficult philosophical problems get treated with a clarity that makes them seem simpler than they really are when you try to think them out on your own. But he doesn't clarify in such a way as to make his own perspective seem obvious--he isn't an arrogant writer--but as one who shows much respect for the thinkers before him, even when he wishes to disagree, extend a point, or acknowledge a deficiency.
Thanks, David.5K Qs Thanks GT, tractor supply is where I got mine as well. Mine has been a constant carry since I got it as well, very handy and compact tool. Your packing some great knives this week
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The Abbeydale Jack is a fitting complement to your stag HHB, Jack!...
Sunday stag for meHave a great day everyone
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Forbidden fruit, eh!?!Someone went to the orchard, so guess what our church snacks were?
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I’m in training.
edit: Ooh! Apple patina really is a thing.
Sweet pair, Steve; that golden cattle knife is especially inspirational!!194OT and an Imperial Cattle knife today
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Grand grain on the covers of both those knives, Jon!
Beguiling bonestag Barlow, Dean!
Beauteous blade and brew, Dave!Waiting for the rain that probably won’t reach us.
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I like 2-blade toothpicks, and your ebony #12 is ravishing, Duane!...
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this ole' Powderhorn has a few miles on it, and many more to go![]()