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.
That has to be a JtT sockpuppet account.
Sounds like it’s finally time for a full release of the Bluegrass Bowie. Yowza!!! Ready here, Boss!!!![]()
I don't know how to describe this fighter other than to say that it is one of my "Grinder Front Designs". That means that there were no sketches and no drawings. . . It was simply born on the front of my grinder. That's how I made all of my knives "back in the day". . . very few were repeated patterns. It is the best part about making knives by hand. It is the reason that Real Knifemakers never quit,. . . ever. It is the fun part of knifemaking, the time when a maker gets to play with no rules. . . no parameters . . .no restrictions. Perhaps I should call them Grinder Fun Designs.It is the reason that I continue to make the Variants. I just sit down and hang on. I never quite know what's going to come out at the end. Its a blast!
I like this knife. I like this knife a lot. The grip is like grabbing on to my old 1968 Schwinn bicycle with its banana seat and high swung handles. We were jumping ramps with non-shock-absorbing Schwinns long before "trail bikes" had been invented. The only thing that could keep you alive on these jumps was the "death grip" that you put on your handles. This knife handle brings back that same adrenaline pumping exhilaration. This fighter wants to fly, and you know immediately upon picking it up that youd better hold on tight because youre in for the ride of your life. It is fun. It is a very fun knife to handle. It is also SOLD and I will NOT be making anymore exactly like it.
Thats gotta be kinda a fun for the new owner too, doesnt it?
Yours in Nuclear GFDs,
Jerry
Quick search for "Blue Grass Bowie" in the wayback machine, yields the following, Jerry's pic:
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Perhaps the key word to keep in mind is "exactly."
I'm...pretty sure I'm not...but that's exactly what I puppet account would say isn't it? Seriously though, I told my fiancee "I don't even know why I'm spending so much time on this, JohntheTexan is just going to win anyway.
So is "Christmas in July" an awesome ganzaaa-like thing, or just a rerelease of the Santa's Outlaw Wicked Variant?
Regrets are for the weekPlease don't remind me of that event. I bought two. Took quite a loss when they eventually sold. Apparently not a popular blade. Some regrets.
Regrets are for the week of 7-12-2020