Keep it Alive in 2025

Will Power said:
Never really understood why people sanctimoniously deplore the 'old days' of polling
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I don't deplore the old days, or the polling, just the acrimony that always accompanied it. And if you want it to be something more than a business decision by the forum owner, someone will have to front the money to cover his liability and a dealer will have to agree to do the heavy lifting without making any profit if you want the Bladeforums name on the project. Otherwise, welcome to the new reality.
 
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I suggest we give consideration to the "Oakridge" slip joint as an option for our 2025 forum knife.

It can be ordered in any quantities and dozens of different configurations but most of all it is VERY affordable :thumbsup:
Details on this beauty can be found HERE :thumbsup:

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CelloDan said:
I suggest we give consideration to the "Oakridge" slip joint as an option for our 2025 forum knife.

It can be ordered in any quantities and dozens of different configurations but most of all it is VERY affordable :thumbsup:
Details on this beauty can be found HERE :thumbsup:

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There is something so unsettling about this AI stuff. It’s anti-beauty. Good job polishing the pivot pin into the bolster though…
 
CelloDan said:
I suggest we give consideration to the "Oakridge" slip joint as an option for our 2025 forum knife.

It can be ordered in any quantities and dozens of different configurations but most of all it is VERY affordable :thumbsup:
Details on this beauty can be found HERE :thumbsup:

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This looks so much like a crappier version of the new coco 94s, but with a lanyard hole 😂
 
Alex.Y. said:
Will Power Will Power regarding

BF knife is (and was?) in fact a Traditional subforum knife, more or less, given that it is a traditional knife, and remembering the qualification criteria "at least x posts in Traditional subforum". So, if there should be a global poll, participants must meet same criteria too. Just a thought.
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True enough Alex, it originated in Traditionals but it is not exclusively for them as in a club knife. It's a Bladeforums Knife as the stamps show. If you check the early years, numbers were very small- I bought my first in 2008 the Northwoods Stockman and not many made. Cue GEC starting to get the forum Knife contract in 2011 with the Spear/caplifter 85 and this was a test bed model as it was GEC's first model in that pattern-likewise others in later years 12.13,14,16,19,Then interest exploded as GECs were seen as very desirable to own/use (true) and very profitable to re-sell....also true.

My point about it actually being a Forum Knife but in Traditional Style was in response to vapid remarks I remember seeing during some polls e.g. during the 2018 knife some characters even started whining about 'outsiders' influencing the polls with idiotic clap-trap about Buck Forum members voting en-masse to influence a 'Traditional' knife when it was a Buck knife being offered! This was not the only example of myopic parochiality about it being 'our' knife etc etc. Polls were interesting- the concept of vote changing and wanting to be on the winning side dominated some peoples' minds 🤣 incredible! But having an input gave it connexion to those buying the knife, later on as GEC expanded there were few choices, take or leave due to production realities as I stated earlier. The Forum owner had to make business decisions over the viability of the knife, I think they paid off until perhaps last year's knife which has not proved a stellar success- many like their knives but many are dyeing them, not something I've seen in such numbers before.

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Hatchet_Jack said:
Wait a sec, the viper was mouflon?!?! I thought it was domestic ram, if the former wow!
That’s a game animal I’ve always dreamed of hunting.
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I think I could be wrong there Jack :oops: I generalised about Mountain Sheep/ Ram's Horn. However, the European Mufflon/Moufflon is prized by knife handle makers, in some countries up to 2000 a year are shot, there is some debate about cross breeding. Also, in other countries where predator animals such as Wolf, Lynx have been nurtured and expanded, Mufflon populations have disappeared......:eek:
 
Will Power said:
I think I could be wrong there Jack :oops: I generalised about Mountain Sheep/ Ram's Horn. However, the European Mufflon/Moufflon is prized by knife handle makers, in some countries up to 2000 a year are shot, there is some debate about cross breeding. Also, in other countries where predator animals such as Wolf, Lynx have been nurtured and expanded, Mufflon populations have disappeared......:eek:
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I seem to recall someone, probably Mike Latham, saying that it was domestic ram.
 
I think the process could have a bit of the old fun without the headaches if GEC would give us a choice of 2 different knives, with an artistic render of each. Option A (this pattern, this handle, this price) or Option B (different pattern, different handle, different price). That would at least let the members have a bit of a consensus to see what the majority prefer.
 
Rookie82 said:
I think the process could have a bit of the old fun without the headaches if GEC would give us a choice of 2 different knives, with an artistic render of each. Option A (this pattern, this handle, this price) or Option B (different pattern, different handle, different price). That would at least let the members have a bit of a consensus to see what the majority prefer.
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this is a great idea. Unfortunately the sour grapes people would have about the polling would be inevitable.
 
Rookie82 said:
I think the process could have a bit of the old fun without the headaches if GEC would give us a choice of 2 different knives, with an artistic render of each. Option A (this pattern, this handle, this price) or Option B (different pattern, different handle, different price). That would at least let the members have a bit of a consensus to see what the majority prefer.
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As a little elaboration of your idea, we could still have polls but all options would be presented by the maker. As an example, "We can give you either pattern #1, #2, or #3, with handle options being A or B, and shield being X or Y. Here's what you can decide from".
 
It all hinges on whether Bill Howard wants to offer a choice and has room in his crowded production schedule I suppose? But yes, it would be a very welcome situation and would lessen the likelihood of unsold knives after some months.

As for sour-grapes, well yeah... but people recover from that hangover while many others will be drinking to the health of a classic vintage knife :)
 
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