Important Info! 2019 Forum Knife : Poll Schedule / Content

Modoc ED said:
Far be it from me to "antagonize" but ...................................................................The covers that will be available haven't been listed yet .....................
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Wrong again! Seems to be a pattern.:D:D
See below

knifeswapper said:
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Slabs: Any slabs GEC currently utilizes. If not a current GEC general production slab; GEC nor dealer will warranty against unforeseen slab defects. First will choose type, then specific.
--most older acrylics are just run for a year or so - thus will probably not still be available

Shield: None or Any general production shield not allocated to an sfo or specialty (beaver, rose, etc.). If BF wants a unique shield it is not a problem, but will add costs. BF will have to provide the designer to deliver a vector drawing.
--smooth slabs have to have non-stamped shield

Provisional: If everything falls into place for special polls, we can hold them here. For example, if everything works out exactly right to vote on a brushed shield/bolster - we could do that in this phase.

International Participants: If you live outside the U.S. and fully plan to purchase a knife, but do not already have a re-shipper service set up; send me ( support@collectorknives.net ) an email with a subject of "International BF Delivery" and body including only your name and country. This will help me start gauging a possible solution for this issue.
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Ramrodmb said:
Wrong again! Seems to be a pattern.:D:D
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A specific slab has not been selected yet - i.e. brown jigged bone, osage wood, gabon ebony, bocote wood, tortoise shell acrylic, etc.. You know, specific slabs/slabs material - what the slabs will be made of.
 
Ramrodmb said:
Agreed, Vince.
Not to mention the only good part for you in an apple is the skin and directly under it. Peel it and you may as well have a sugar cookie instead.:rolleyes:
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On a positive note... 40+ years of experience has showed that if I have to grab a piece of fruit and just eat it, probably not gonna happen... the last couple years of experience has showed that if I get to cut it up, I'll eat 9 to 10 apples/plums/pears/peaches a week (peel included). So knives are really a health benefit! :D
 
Modoc ED said:
A specific slab has not been selected yet - i.e. brown jigged bone, osage wood, gabon ebony, bocote wood, tortoise shell acrylic, etc.. You know, specific slabs/slabs material - what the slabs will be made of.
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Well, that's different than what you said:
"The covers that will be available haven't been listed yet":D:cool::eek::oops:
 
akaMatt said:
On a positive note... 40+ years of experience has showed that if I have to grab a piece of fruit and just eat it, probably not gonna happen... the last couple years of experience has showed that if I get to cut it up, I'll eat 9 to 10 apples/plums/pears/peaches a week (peel included). So knives are really a health benefit! :D
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Totally agree! Just don't peel it !!!!:D:)
 
Prester John said:
Well, you can't please everyone, you know! I keep reading about lots of guys using a pocketknife to slice or peel their apples. Would have never occurred to me. Easiest thing is to take an apple in one hand and just bite into it...
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Easy, yes, but I can't digest apple skins, they make me nauseous. The flesh has about half the nutrition of the total, so they're still worth eating without and I eat a couple per day. Besides, it's an excellent knife test.
 
gaj999 said:
Easy, yes, but I can't digest apple skins, they make me nauseous. The flesh has about half the nutrition of the total, so they're still worth eating without and I eat a couple per day. Besides, it's an excellent knife test.
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Actually, when they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away they're referring to constipation. You see, apple skins help form a solid stool. Kinda gets back to the buffalo chip cover possibility.
 
if jigged bone is a cover option it seems like the forum really needs to see what the jigging can be looking like to vote on slabs?

It might be that we need a jigging poll to be decided before slabs poll, or anti-bone handle riff raff and malcontents will paint word pictures of the worst jigging ever and that will kill bone. no joke.
 
gaj999 said:
Easy, yes, but I can't digest apple skins, they make me nauseous. The flesh has about half the nutrition of the total, so they're still worth eating without and I eat a couple per day. Besides, it's an excellent knife test.
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Fair enough. I like the peel and have never had a problem digesting it.
My favorite way to eat an apple is peeled, cut, cooked, and with sugar and cinnamon in a pie!
 
waynorth said:
This knife is rumored to include heavier gauge blade material. With a saber grind it will be thicker than average behind the edge, making it tough to be sharpened as a real slicer! I think a saber grind would be a mistake. Flat grind please!!!
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I thought it odd that this blade grind wasn't even considered as something to be decided by majority. Is it because it is the only option offered? Or was a decision made by the organizers? Either way, enjoy your knives guys, I am out.
 
I suggest that the initial post be copied and placed in a new thread, and made as a sticky for handy reference, but closed to new posts since it is really a good reference of the plan for the upcoming polls.

And as each new poll is completed, a link added in that thread to reference to the completed poll.

G2
 
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Elgatodeacero said:
if jigged bone is a cover option it seems like the forum really needs to see what the jigging can be looking like to vote on slabs?

It might be that we need a jigging poll to be decided before slabs poll, or anti-bone handle riff raff and malcontents will paint word pictures of the worst jigging ever and that will kill bone. no joke.
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What about pro-bone anti-jigging malcontents? ;)
 
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