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.
It's impossible not to like them. They are exactly what they are advertised to be. Solid and deadly. Good balance and ergos actually. The Vakras are heavy and heavily weighted forward of course, and the Deuce is far more balanced and feels quite light for it's length due to the long haft. The heat treat seems good, some grinds are not equal, came with oil all over them. Took me a while to get them cleaned up. The Deuce had a slight gradual bend, easily straightened. The kydex work is passable, but they need better pants. I rigged the Vakras for right and left thigh carry, and the Deuce for across the back/over the right shoulder draw. Buy them for the form and function, not for the fit and finish. I should do a more thorough review, because none exists.
Overall, I think the designs are fun and they are functional in the extreme. They would be right at home waiting in the corner of some old abandoned wharehouse for the opportunity to destroy a legion of undead. I wouldn't hesitate putting them through the heaviest possible usage. I'm glad I bought them, I found the guys making them to be very professional in thier business dealings, and have no trouble recommending thier products to others.
Now, if only there was some lumbering, rotting flesh to cleave....
Vintage beef-splitter!
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Details please!