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.
Sorry guys, I started working on this and then ended up with the flu for a few days. Barrett already beat me to it, but I thought I would post this anyways, showing the potential 5 handle choices that Charlie mentioned.
Alright, I think this will be the last one, so I'm going to put them all together here in one post.
Natural Canvas Micarta:
Bone Canvas Micarta:
OD Green Linen Micarta:
Red Linen Micarta:
A couple notes:
If the Bone Canvas Micarta happens to be an option, I think most of the #77s that came out with that material did not have the black marks shown on mine, and so they were lighter in color and cleaner looking. That said, mine did come from the factory looking like that, so there would be the possibility of those variations in that handle material (similar to the dark marks seen on some of the Muslin Micarta #13s).
I'm assuming these will be steel liners/pins, so the brass pins on the Red Linen Micarta mock-up are probably incorrect.
I think of the possible handle materials Charlie mentioned, I'm missing two: the OD Green Canvas Micarta and Black Linen Micarta. I couldn't find any photos of those materials on patterns that could easily be juxtaposed over the photo I've been working with (I used various #15s, #77s, #14s and #25s for these), but the OD Canvas should be similar to the Natural Canvas but, of course, the color of the OD Linen, and the Black Linen would look pretty similar to the OD Linen (on any patterns where I've seen both the OD and Black, the colors are pretty similar).
Is this the one, Charlie?Sorry guys, I started working on this and then ended up with the flu for a few days. Barrett already beat me to it, but I thought I would post this anyways, showing the potential 5 handle choices that Charlie mentioned.
Here you go, Charlie.Sorry guys, I started working on this and then ended up with the flu for a few days. Barrett already beat me to it, but I thought I would post this anyways, showing the potential 5 handle choices that Charlie mentioned.
Charlie were you thinking of post #587 by btb01?
I believe the STL is for steel, rather than brass liners.
Alright, I think this will be the last one, so I'm going to put them all together here in one post.
Natural Canvas Micarta:
Bone Canvas Micarta:
OD Green Linen Micarta:
Red Linen Micarta:
A couple notes:
If the Bone Canvas Micarta happens to be an option, I think most of the #77s that came out with that material did not have the black marks shown on mine, and so they were lighter in color and cleaner looking. That said, mine did come from the factory looking like that, so there would be the possibility of those variations in that handle material (similar to the dark marks seen on some of the Muslin Micarta #13s).
I'm assuming these will be steel liners/pins, so the brass pins on the Red Linen Micarta mock-up are probably incorrect.
I think of the possible handle materials Charlie mentioned, I'm missing two: the OD Green Canvas Micarta and Black Linen Micarta. I couldn't find any photos of those materials on patterns that could easily be juxtaposed over the photo I've been working with (I used various #15s, #77s, #14s and #25s for these), but the OD Canvas should be similar to the Natural Canvas but, of course, the color of the OD Linen, and the Black Linen would look pretty similar to the OD Linen (on any patterns where I've seen both the OD and Black, the colors are pretty similar).
Canvas is a lot more interesting visually.
Even if BH has 'ruled out anything creative' I still think with a huge order such as this that dark red or Burgundy Canvas Micarta could be commissioned at no real extra cost. Why? Well red has been talked about a lot here with approval and moreover, it's a colour that hasn't been used on Forum Knife handles before. Kind of Red soup bone Lite eh?
