Will Power
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Yes, it's hard stuff but it will retain that edge well. Hope it all gets sorted to your satisfaction. 

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.
Great looking Norfolk, Ron! It's my favorite of the Case - Bose collaborations that I have.Round Two of yesterday’s awesome mail run is a grail knife for me. I have wanted a Case Bose Norfolk ever since I first saw one in the pages of BladeForums. Thursday evening I was at the right place at the right time. This beautiful Antique Jigged Bone Norfolk was listed on the exchange by @onekerf and I believe that I was the first on the listing. I thought about it for maybe a millisecondand then I pulled the trigger. I don’t know exactly how to describe the way this knife feels in hand. I know anyone that has one knows exactly what I’m talking about! It was everything and more than I expected!
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Very nice. I saw that one and thought about it, I refreshed the page and you had snagged it. I will look forward to to seeing it in the “What are your Totin” thread.Round Two of yesterday’s awesome mail run is a grail knife for me. I have wanted a Case Bose Norfolk ever since I first saw one in the pages of BladeForums. Thursday evening I was at the right place at the right time. This beautiful Antique Jigged Bone Norfolk was listed on the exchange by @onekerf and I believe that I was the first on the listing. I thought about it for maybe a millisecondand then I pulled the trigger. I don’t know exactly how to describe the way this knife feels in hand. I know anyone that has one knows exactly what I’m talking about! It was everything and more than I expected!
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Very good looking indeed. Did you mean 1.4034… which is very similar to 420hcGot a new one from Klaas/ Solingen. As I mentioned on another place, they have an unbelieveable treasure from their knifemaking history, not only material, but also pattern sketch books. So they were diggin´ in this treasure and found a pattern called 4345, a cokebottle knife from the 1950s
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This year they decided to build it again and this is the result:
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A wonderfull knife with excellent f&f and strong w&t. Handle covers are grenadile wood, blade steel is 1.4043, but its also aviable in carbon steel or with damascus with mamouth tooth covers. This time I choose rustless, because it should be my edc for the next time and I like to have a few, that I can use without caring about rust and the typical carbon steel issues
Thanks a lot, Bugdoc. Indeed it´s 1.4043. I didn´t know, that it is that similar. But a few differences are there, especially the amount of Chrome and the lack of VanadiumVery good looking indeed. Did you mean 1.4034… which is very similar to 420hc
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