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.
'Tis a Parang Lading Kedah built by O'Katz of Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia.
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18" OAL made from an old American Jeep leaf spring steel (i.e. spark test showed that it's a 5160).
Thanks for looking
mohd
Thanks Allain, Parang Lading Kedah is a Malaysian traditional chopper and I'm very comfortable with it in our coconut plantation field works!.. nice, Mohd,very nice ..
Congrats to you Phil, it is a Barung Semenanjung which is slightly different from it's siblings in Sabah and Philippines... My O'Katz barong, made from a Land Rover spring ..
ZT0551 for comparison
Cook
CAS
Knight
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the Knight is a marvel and the terrible specs
ZT0551 for comparison
Cook
CAS
Knight
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congrats very nice work ,i love this big campknives .![]()
2 I just finished. The camp bowie is O-1, cocobolo with red G10 liners and tapered tang.
the chopper is 3/16" O-1, green canvas micarta mortised tang handle with red G10 spacer. Guard is 304 stainless with red G10 and stainless spacers. Full convex grind.
Nextmission,Oh man,This piece if knight is my dream!A midnight killer!
Some would call this a bauernwehr but chopper fits, too.
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