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Well, while we’re wishing and hoping, I’ll add a Bodacious in 3V. Not too crazy about Black G-10 or the 25 different shades of FDE, but honestly I’d take a 3V in any color!

Evil D wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:11 am

WilliamMunny wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 04, 2025 9:07 am

Evil D wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 04, 2025 5:15 am

phaust wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:22 pm

∆Which brings up the point we need a Bodacious Salt

A Salt and 15V Bodacious are really all I'm asking for these days. There's lots of other ideas like a tanto Military 2 but if I just got those two options I'd really be at peace with my knife needs.

I read somewhere, they had a 15V Bodacious prototype at the Bladeshow. It's third hand information so take it with a grain of salt.

I've heard that from a couple people now but I'm trying to not build myself up for a letdown, it's entirely possible they made that display knife before the 15V well dried up. If it doesn't happen then that's a real bummer, hopefully a MagnaCut Salt isn't out of the question.

I would think so, I am a little suppressed we have not seen more steels for it. Got my first one, a SPY-27, and I absolutely love it. Even though it's the same 3.5" blade size of my Manix, it cuts like it's a 4" knife with all the extra edge length it has. Its sad but now i never carry my GB2 in favor of my Bodacious.

Evil D wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 03, 2025 3:17 pm

Sure would appreciate a pulse check on the SE Bodacious. I just got my monthly "your order is still being processed" from KnifeCenter so I got curious and check my account and saw that this preorder is now over a year old as of 06/16/2024. I normally don't even bother with preorders especially for regular production models but it did get me a Native 5 Salt way faster than most so I figured it couldn't hurt. I'm a patient man but I didn't expect to be waiting over a year.

I'm tempted by the SE Bodacious. I also have been burned by "preorder and wait forever", so I will wait before ordering.

Different steels (from the standard S30V) don't really tempt me.

A Bodacious LW is an immediate buy. I'd rather get both the PE and SE in LW, if I had a choice.

WilliamMunny wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:49 am

... Its sad but now i never car my GB2 in favor of my Bodacious.

Hadn't thought about it like this until you said it, but pretty much same here.

Excluding sentimental attachments to some knives, I could probably sell all of them and be left with some flavor of a Bodacious, Military 2 and my Ayoob. I really hope the Bodacious is selling sell enough to justify more variants. All I can do is promise to do my part and buy whatever gets made as long as it's not some super weird handle/scale combo.

Evil D wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 05, 2025 6:51 am

Excluding sentimental attachments to some knives, I could probably sell all of them and be left with some flavor of a Bodacious, Military 2 and my Ayoob. I really hope the Bodacious is selling sell enough to justify more variants. All I can do is promise to do my part and buy whatever gets made as long as it's not some super weird handle/scale combo.

Yeah, OK, maybe i should buy the SPY27 version just to support Team Bodacious (and I really like the blue).

The Bodacious has redirected and focused my knife buying. It's very close to Sal designing a knife just for me. i just went through my "collection" (Plano storage box), and my three are the Bodacious, the Yojumbo, and the UKPK. I carry the UKPK when I'm wearing a suit, since it is very light, and not scary-looking. Which leads me to ask:

Is it possible to design a slip-joint Bodacious, or slip-joint mini-Bodacious? Either would be a wonderful companion to the compression-lock version.

Hi Hermit,

The Bodacious doesn't have a finger choil which is really a safety feature for Slipits.

sal

sal wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:53 pm

Hi Hermit,

The Bodacious doesn't have a finger choil which is really a safety feature for Slipits.

sal

Thanks, Sal! I certainly appreciate the role of the finger choil as a safety feature in the UKPK. You are using the finger choil to increase safety during use in slip joint designs, and my experience is that your design works very well.

So I guess I will grudgingly admit you are right in not making a Bodacious Slipit. I still want one, though.

derangedhermit wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 05, 2025 2:12 pm

Evil D wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 05, 2025 6:51 am

Excluding sentimental attachments to some knives, I could probably sell all of them and be left with some flavor of a Bodacious, Military 2 and my Ayoob. I really hope the Bodacious is selling sell enough to justify more variants. All I can do is promise to do my part and buy whatever gets made as long as it's not some super weird handle/scale combo.

Yeah, OK, maybe i should buy the SPY27 version just to support Team Bodacious (and I really like the blue).

The Bodacious has redirected and focused my knife buying. It's very close to Sal designing a knife just for me. i just went through my "collection" (Plano storage box), and my three are the Bodacious, the Yojumbo, and the UKPK. I carry the UKPK when I'm wearing a suit, since it is very light, and not scary-looking. Which leads me to ask:

Is it possible to design a slip-joint Bodacious, or slip-joint mini-Bodacious? Either would be a wonderful companion to the compression-lock version.

The blue looks great on the Bodacious scales. Someone out there has good tastes when they made it…

I must say that I totally missed that (now?) the Bodacious is also available in SE...
Any experiences yet? Or inputs how the serrations on this model are done? (David @Evil D ...? )

Wartstein wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:06 pm

I must say that I totally missed that (now?) the Bodacious is also available in SE...
Any experiences yet? Or inputs how the serrations on this model are done? (David @Evil D ...? )

Tracking says it's due to arrive today so we'll see

Evil D wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:14 am

Wartstein wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:06 pm

I must say that I totally missed that (now?) the Bodacious is also available in SE...
Any experiences yet? Or inputs how the serrations on this model are done? (David @Evil D ...? )

Tracking says it's due to arrive today so we'll see

Nice!!

Hope you´ll let us know how you like a Bodacious with teeth! (I have an idea already that you probably won´t exactly hate it... )

Wartstein wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:42 am

Evil D wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:14 am

Wartstein wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:06 pm

I must say that I totally missed that (now?) the Bodacious is also available in SE...
Any experiences yet? Or inputs how the serrations on this model are done? (David @Evil D ...? )

Tracking says it's due to arrive today so we'll see

Nice!!

Hope you´ll let us know how you like a Bodacious with teeth! (I have an idea already that you probably won´t exactly hate it... )

Unfortunately we all know it's a bit of a gamble with serration patterns, I really wish they could all be standardized somehow. I've really liked my last few SE models from Golden so I have high hopes. I'm expecting it to be a lot like my Chief Salt and if so then I'll be very happy with it.

I'm not sure why but it seems like blade stock thickness has an impact on the final angle of serrations. I don't know any other reason why the Chief and Military 2 would have such different serration angles since they're ground in the same factory, unless the knives I have came from very different spots in the wear life of the grinding wheel and that caused the Chief to be lower than 15 degrees and the Military 2 to be higher than 15 degrees. But, I suspect it's more than that because my Native 5 Salt is exactly the same as my Chief and it's the same blade stock thickness so there seems to be a pattern. With the Bodacious and Chief being the same blade stock thickness, and being .5mm thinner than a Military 2, I'm hoping the Bodacious comes ground like the Chief.