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.
I think you will be surprised. This knife is super hand friendly. I would definitely pick one up and feel it out.
Is that a custom scale on the middle one or am I just seeing things? Whatever it is I like it.
I handled a 909 at my dealer, and I have 2 major points. It is huge, and it is chunky. Terrible for lower end medium hands like mine, and it is nowhere close to light. That said, it is very comfortable in the hand, good texturing and ergonomics. Action is great, kinda surprising for such a large knife. It you have Hulk hands, it might be the knife for you. If you have tiny little gopher hands like me, stick with the 808 or 450.
I think it might be new scales that ZT is using.
Here is an Instagram post I found in a search:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDRRuA6wu-C/
I emailed ZT to see if they sold them separately and they said "no".:grumpy:
Yeah this lock is probably stronger than 99% of the "over built, hard use, ultra tactical, high speed, low drag" frame locks out there, with their outrageously thin lock cutouts.Also. The other crazy thing. The liners are thicker than the G10!
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I handled a 909 at my dealer, and I have 2 major points. It is huge, and it is chunky. Terrible for lower end medium hands like mine, and it is nowhere close to light. That said, it is very comfortable in the hand, good texturing and ergonomics. Action is great, kinda surprising for such a large knife. It you have Hulk hands, it might be the knife for you. If you have tiny little gopher hands like me, stick with the 808 or 450.
I'm not really obsessed with jimping - I suppose I might notice if it wasn't there; but it rarely evokes my consideration. I'm almost surprise to see the improved ergos comment; but, then again, part of the reason I've stuck with the 0200 for so long is the way it fits my hand. (As I've posted before, I did sand the g10 smooth). I'll agree that the 0200 - or, rather, MY 0200 - had a weak detent and could be inconsistent when using the flipper...at least until I figured out its quirks. Now, I find that I like the softer detent of my 0200 and 0560 better than the firmer new ones. I sometimes find myself gently working the flipper or thumbstud to just break the detent - much in the same manner that some people use their traditional knives as "worry stones", or some people obsessively flip their knives open (over and over again).It's all that the old 0200 was (size and weight) but better. Improved ergos, jimping, steel and KVT. A lot of value in a big tactical folder for $180.