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 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.
It will sell well in the UK.Clearly this new Opinel has been designed with restrictive knife laws in mind, they are thinking the rounded tip and slipjoint will be judged less aggressive by the LEO agent controlling you![]()
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Opinel says it is a new type of slip joint mechanism. I’m curious to try one, but it is a shame about the rounded tip. Looks like it would be fairly easy to drop the tip to get back to a point.
Here it is after some filing n sanding in the right(and wrong) places. Put a tip on it and my own edge. Opinel blades are the most fun and easy to sharpen, love that thin full convex.
The slip joint approach for the pivot works nice, hope they do this with more models.
Nice grain on the olive as well!
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Nice work! How's the mechanism? Is it pretty stiff?
Huh, well I shouldn't be surprised by that. I reckon I'll pick one up once they start turning up in the states.I would say no, but it doest its job.