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 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 don't own it, but I'd rather not pay that kind of $$$$$ for an
AUS 8A knife.
You bet. I did a search and one of the few things I could find about this knife was people saying it was built like a tank and so on. That could explain the price being so much higher than a 110.Yeah, that's big money for the materials used.
I don't own it, but I'd rather not pay that kind of $$$$$ for an
AUS 8A knife.
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It behaves more like a fixed blade than a folder in use.
I don't own it, but I'd rather not pay that kind of $$$$$ for an
AUS 8A knife.
Some possible exceptions (e.g. Spyderco fixed Lum) but
this particular Kershaw would be a "no go" for me at the price.
the best part is that Kershaw also sells this
http://www.knifeworks.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=8022
Thanks for your suggestion, do you happen to have any where I can subtract $50 instead of adding it up? And you are right, I like the way that Kershaw looks.If you like that style and can add another $50,[...]
That´s what I heard. Somewhere around bladeforums someone called this 1050 "the Manix of traditional folders".This thing eats ANY Buck 110 for breakfast. :thumbup:
This thread has confirmed my thoughts, the knife is overpriced. But what else is in the market, at a lower price? I found it hard to find a 110-style folder with a 3/16" thick blade.Now that I think about it, it cost me around $80 back then, so adjusted for inflation this price is probably about the same - but it's still too much when you consider what else is out there at around that price.
Yeah, I was actually posting that to show that they had a lockback folder that was about right in price and materials for the mid/upper end of mass production. compared to a AUS8/linerless micarta AMK Falcon, or a VG-10/frn Calypso Jr, the price isn't bad at all. I really don't find it all that similar to a sodbuster, which are most all pretty cheap.Hey look! It's a $120 MSRP locking sodbuster! Boy, that's a steal, considering Case does almost the exact same thing for $20, also American made. I guess the VG10 and Micarta make up for the extra $100. (edit) Okay, looking back at this, it's nowhere near as bad as the knife at the top of the thread. That knife at the top of the thread looks like the deal of the century, what with the plastic handles (phenolic minus linen or glass fiber= plastic) and the fancy steel. At a svelte 8.6 oz., no less! But it does have the full flat grind and 3d handle going for it. For $50 or even $60 street I could see picking one up, but $132.95? Yikes!