Three Grand Knives * WINNERS ANNOUNCED PG. 3 *

[black mamba]

It has been my custom to do a giveaway at each thousand (grand) level of my posts. I'm rapidly approaching 3 grand.

It has also been my great fortune to have won a couple of the best of other's contests, so this one is going to be a good one as well. Just passin' on the goodness that is so prevalent in this traditional subforum.

I'm also rather adament about being a paid member if you are going to use this forum, so the contest is only open to paying members. If you have more than 60% of your posts in the traditional subforum, you get a second entry.

THE CONTEST: Relate your best knife experience, but keep it short. Then post a number between 1-1,000, inclusive. When I reach 3,000 posts, I will draw three (3) numbers, for first, second and third choices. Three (3) winners, but 5 knives to pick from.

Here are the knives:

S&M Series X Lockback, 4-1/2" closed


Bulldog USA (by GEC) Hunter's Trapper, 3-3/4" closed


Robert Klaas Anniversary Whittler, 4-1/2" closed


Tidioute #12 Toothpick, 4" closed


H&R Bowie Clip fixed blade, with sheath, 9-3/4" OAL

[jujigatame]

Wow, this is an incredibly generous gesture on your part. Thanks for the chance.

As for my best knife experience, well, this is going to sound corny but it makes sense when I think it through. It has to be finding and joining Bladeforums. Sure I'd owned knives well before ever logging on here but this place exposed me to so many other things I'd never seen and helped me make connections with some great people. This online community led me to others with more knives, more people, and more experiences. Bladeforums and its members are what helped the passion for knives really grow.

I'll pick # 427.

[mike Berkovitch]

Not an entry, this is VERY generous giveaway. Congrats for your first 3K
Mike

[baliblaster]

My best knife experience was when i was visiting my grandfather one day a few years ago and he was showing me his knife collection.He was a remarkable man,he graduated college in the late 40's,was a schoolteacher for a few years,he turned to farming in the mid 50's,he was an accomplished watchmaker and repairer,and also was a Sunday school teacher for many years.He was never one to talk very much but when he did people listened to him.Anyway he was strictly a CaseXX man and was showing me his collection when i spied a very sexy shade of red bone like i had never seen before.It was attached to my favorite knife pattern as well,a moose pattern.He pulled it out and handed it to me to look it over and it was a XX moose with absolutely drop dead beautiful red bone handles.Anyway i handed it back to him and he must have noticed my fondness for it,because a couple weeks later,my mother came home from visiting my grandparents and said "here dad sent you something". She handed me that moose and my jaw almost hit the floor.I was almost speechless and then proceeded to call him and thank him for something i will treasure for the rest of my life.My grandpa passed away last after a battle with spinal cancer and he will be missed.But i will always remember my gift from him.Before he died he tried to sell everything he could to make it easier for my grandmother after his passing,and i tried to buy everything from him that i could afford to buy.I bought his truck and 2 Winchester rifles from him but i would sell all 3 of those things before i would get rid of that knife.
Thanks for the chance in your giveaway!.....Ryan. I think number 373 sounds like a good one.

[WA Martin]

459 please, and thank you. I always enjoy your giveaways and I suspect people don't really know how generous you are. Not to mention going out of your way to make sure those you deal with are getting a fair shake.

Best experience with a knife... Well, let me use my first experience with getting a knife. I was probably 10 which made my brother 8. My dad came home one day and gave each of us a Camp King pocket knife with a leather loop and hook for the bail. I was young enough to not realize my dad had waited to give us our knives until my brother was old enough to have one too but I got to pick the color of the leather loop I wanted for my belt. I chose the black one and my brother got the chocolate brown one. That was a sweet day. Still have the knife too! Not really usable anymore but a fine personal heirloom.

Thanks, Dad.

Thanks for the giveaway, Jeff.

[brets-ftw]

Ill take 750, thank you for this incredibly generous giveaway.

I guess I'll tell one of my new knife stories that are worth telling, a lesson well learned. I was on a Boy Scout camping trip, a few years ago, (8th grade, I believe) And had recently bought a new knife. Was made of sequoia in a blend of a Languiole and Sod buster pattern. A nice slip joint, had just finished sharpening it too. I decided to do some carving but this particular piece of wood just didn't want to be carved and in my frustration stabbed the knife into the block, the spring snapped shut and I now carry a good sized scar on my pinky. needless to say I chucked the block and knife in my rampage towards some first aid.

[mnblade]

My favorite knife memory involves one I gave away. See, my mom's dad lost an arm in WWII, so he never carried a pocketknife when I was growing up. He usually had a fixed blade laying around, and kept one in the trunk of his car that we'd use during picnics on our cross-country roadtrips from Florida to California. But no day in, day out pocketknife like my other grandfather had. As I got older, I acquired a second-hand Schrade LB7 lockback that I would tote in my back pocket. I got pretty good opening that sucker with one hand. Then it occurred to me! Pop should have a great knife like this! (This was a good ways before we'd ever even heard of Spydercos, and assisted openers weren't available either.) About age 16 or so, I had a job as a busboy. I saved up some money and bought Pop a brand-new LB7 of his own. I remember it cost over $50! It was far and away the most expensive gift I'd ever given anyone, and the most expensive knife I'd ever purchased. I was so proud giving him that knife.

I'll pick: 247

-- Mark

[RM81]

My best knife experience was when my dad gave me my grandpa's old Shrade. My grandpa died when I was young and I don't have many memories of him. I remember the day that dad gave me his knife pretty well, and now everything I look at the knife I think about both my grandpa and my dad. Looking forward to the day when I can pass it on to my son or daughter.

Thanks for the chance. I'll pick 748.

[black mamba]

RM81, thanks for the input, this is definitely a family atmosphere here on the traditional subforum.

Unfortunately, the contest is only open to paying members, as stated in the opening post. Basic membership is only $10 a year. If you pay up and update your user profile, I would be happy to take your entry in the drawing.

[eisman]

I don't know about best, one one of my favorite knife memories revolves around the IWA show in Nuremberg, Germany back in 1996. I was working for a company doing a lot of OEM work for various companies in the industry, and we had a booth at the show. It was the 3rd or 4th show I did over there with this company, and I pretty much knew all the major players at that time. COL Cooper was there with his daughter, and I was taking them around to introduce them to a few people when we ended up at the Boker booth.

Gerber had just come out with the Fairbairn/Applegate folder, and Boker had a fixed version they were hawking. COL Applegate was in the booth, and the two officers stopped to chat. I was introduced, and in the course of the conversation mentioned I had been given a folder from the first production run by the marketing VP at Gerber. I pulled it out of my pocket, and COL Applegate took it and signed it with a pen he had on him.

I still have that knife. It's one I won't sell.

I'll take #174, and you'll have to send the whittler if I win.

[RM81]

RM81, thanks for the input, this is definitely a family atmosphere here on the traditional subforum.

Unfortunately, the contest is only open to paying members, as stated in the opening post. Basic membership is only $10 a year. If you pay up and update your user profile, I would be happy to take your entry in the drawing.

Sorry about that. Not sure how I missed that. I've only been here a couple of weeks and planning on upgrading to gold soon. Nice gesture on your part for the giveaway all the same.

[Chief]

One of my coworkers and a good friend is an alcoholic. He has been through AA more than once but still having a serious problem. His drinking was severely affecting his wife and kids and jeopardizing his job. I told him that if he quit drinking for 30 days, I would give him the finest knife he had ever owned. 30 days later he hadn't had a drop, so I brought half a dozen NIB knives to work for him to choose from, and he became the proud owner of an LCC/DA. The stipulation was that if he drank, I got the knife back until he had been sober for another 30 days. It excited him to have a symbol of his sobriety, he told me that when he felt weak, he would feel that knife in his pocket and he didn't want to give it up. It's been almost 3 years, and he has never had to give it back.

Thanks for your generosity, #777.

[Knife Crazied]

655 and 924 (Most my post are here according to my stats)

The greatest memory I have with a knife happened this Christmas. My mom took me to K-Mart to see if I found anything I wanted for xmas. Well I checked the knives and the wenger evo 18 yellow was in the selection. I quickly noticed they had it labeled with the wrong price tag. Well as you know most stores will honor the price marked. So I found a manager and showed her the boo boo. I then ask if I was allowed to get one at that price. She said yes because it was advertised at that. So I had my mom get me that Wenger. A normally $60 knife at k-mart my mom got for $19.88. It was also the first knife my mom ever bought me.

Thanks for the chance.

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[Campbellclanman]

Wow Jeff!, what an incredible give-away...some very very nice knives up for grabs.
Its always great seeing your knives, and I appreciate greatly what you share with us here in Traditionals....so thank you my friend!

I havent been into knives for all that long, but when it got me...it got me good.
Neither did I grow up on a farm or with a family who used knives, but one very fond memory I have is when I was pretty young, from memory I was around 10 .... my brother who was nearing 15 owned a Wildcat imperial folding knife.....when I saw it it was WOW!!! I got hold of it and asked him if I could have it, he said no...but he showed me how to open the knife with out slicing my fingers to bits ( I had never opened a knife before ).. but I can just see him there taking care of his kid brother, Andrew has gone from us over 20 years now, but as the tears form very easily with me typing this, ...its a real neat memory, Im 48 verysoon, and its a very clear memory.... a nice one.
I own that Impreial Wildcat now, as ugly as that darned knife is, its a very dear one to me.

Jeff, could I pick 52, because Andy would be that now.

Thank you for your generosity Jeff, and Congrats on the big 3K.

[oxmav3rickxo]

Just recently joined this forum but boy is it a great wealth of information. I have been collecting knives here and there but i plan to further my collection tremendously by using this site. I guess my best knife experience at this moment is going to be: I just recently took my father hunting for the first time, ya i know weird for a son to take his father hunting... And he got his first Boar, so i just recently (yesterday in fact) ordered my father a Buck 110 from Buck's Custom Shop (Mirror blade, nickel bolster, elk horn scales and some personal engraving) to commemorate his first kill. Im sure when it arrives, he'll absolutely love it and he can now have his own little hunting knife for all those future hunts we will be going on. Thanks for letting me tell my story and thanks for this generous opportunity. I'll go with #387!

[Smaug]

Well, I'm a long-time member, and have found my knife interest re-kindled lately. I've been thinking of donating to the forum, and this post pushed me over the edge. Nice job.

My first choice would be the toothpick, followed by the S&M. I'll take numbers 1 and 1000.

Knife Story: When I learned the proper respect for knives

I was about 5, and my dad stopped in the gun shop at my request. I was not allowed into the gun room, as I was still 10 years shy of the legal age. But I could ogle all the nice knives, mace, etc. I found a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife that had 'POLICE' on the scales instead of the Swiss shield. I think it was a Super Tinker. I was very proud that I had made such a good purchase with my hard-saved money. That would have bought a LOT of comic books!

The next day, I was using the scissors inappropriately. I can't recall or imagine what I was doing. Probably trying to whittle by using the scissors as kind of a reverse gouge. I slipped and stuck that straight through the web of my hand, between the thumb and index finger. Ouch. Blood everywhere.

I can't recall for sure, but I think I got a few stitches. I do know that I never saw that knife again. My dad, probably at the "request" of my mom, decided I was still a bit young to be trusted with my very own pocket knife.

[Leek_Freak]

First, thanks for the chance.

Second, I will go with number 900.

Third, my story. My wife used to joke about me always carrying a knife. Then one day she needed something to open a package. She was looking around for a pair of scissors...or anything to open up this package. I was just watching her, waiting for her to ask. Finally she came to me and asked to borrow my knife. She hasn't bugged me since then

[comoha]

In 1992 I went on a fishing trip on Minnesota's north shore as a final single guys trip with my brother before being married the following year. While at one of the outfitters up there I purchased a nice Schrade lockback with wood scales. I carried it for awhile but soon put it away as it meant alot to me because it signified such a fun, bittersweet trip with my brother. Well eventually he too got married and in time had a son. Recently, now twenty years later, I gave that good old Schrade to my brother's 11 year-old boy and told him the story. He was visibly touched. He's my fishing buddy and he knows to come to his uncle for the good knives.
I'll try #680 and #212.
Thanks for the chance.

[Sonnemann]

Thanks for the chance. I like giveaways where the stories and/or pictures come out!

One of my favorite knife stories happened this Thanksgiving at my uncle's place in rural Virginia. My two brothers and I had recently lost our mother (the youngest of 7 siblings) so our uncle (the eldest of 7) wanted to make sure we wouldn't drift apart despite living hundreds of miles away, and organized a Thanksgiving reunion. It was a great weekend of fishing, hunting, shooting, and activities with people I don't get to see nearly as often as I'd like. Anyway, on the last night we were all sitting around the woodstove talking about our occupations and schooling when my youngest uncle, a general contractor, pulled out his multitool and asked me sharpen it for him. At that point everyone started digging into their pockets and pulling out their pocketknives, which invariably had a story attached. Many had $5 Chinese hardware store knives, but some had quality oldies like a Case, a Buck, and a Primble. It was a rare but much appreciated example of how the small things we carried in our pockets could help us find some common ground.
I'll go with #96 and #516. Thanks!

[Dane.Chichester]

Thanks for the give-away even if I'm not eligable. Wanted to share anyways.

Just recently I had the opportunity to go tour the infamous Chris Reeve knife shop in Boise, ID. It was great, shops a decent size, people were wonderful and best of all I was toured by Mr. Reeve himself! The guy is an absolute pleasure, only downfall is I tried to buy a Ti-Lock from him that day but true to his backorders, he wouldn't let me. Luckily enough, I picked up a different blade that was put together right infront of me.