10 Years Here

glocktenman

glocktenman

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Dang guys and gals....I've been farting around on BF for over 10 years now. I was thinking about what got me involved and into the slipjoint culture. Oddly enough, I bought a kershaw JYD II and started searching the interweb for more info about it and found BF. I read and snooped for a while and then got drawn into the trads area. The draw was the craftsmanship of the customs I saw and the idea of carrying a slipjoint. Another thing that pulled me into this area was the people. When you read threads with banter and the sharing of knowledge and see friendships develop, even if over the interweb, that're as solid and trustworthy as many I have seen in person. It seemed like a great place to learn about the history of trads knives and to see some of the best knives in the world. We have members and people in the trads area from all around the US, the globe and travelers of the globe. It's really an amazing place considering all the problems some people experience on the interweb. I've had a great time here and besides having a few minor moderator demerits, I feel I may have contributed in some way.

The first slip joint I purchased after joining here was a GEC 23L with grizzly bone. I still have it and it's one BA knife. I think I'll bust the 23 out and run around with it for a few days in my pocket, if I can keep my pants up! LOL. I wonder how much money I've spent on knives since joining? I'm afraid to start adding......

I appreciate what is here and each of you who are active here in trads too. I hope I'm here 10 more years! I'm posting my first knife I purchased after joining BF. Maybe, if you recall your first after joining, you can post it too!

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Congrats on the 10-year milestone Randy.

I believe the first knives I posted were these two Bear & Son Barlow Knives on 2 April, 2010.

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I've since passed them on but they were well built knives with good fit and finish, sharpened easily, and held a good edge.
 
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Congratulations on the milestone Randy, that's 10 good years :) :thumbsup:

I already had trad knives before I started posting here, but I think the first I purchased after posting was a Rough Rider Gunstock Canoe. I'd seen the knives previously, but it was only after reading the RR thread that I decided to give them a try. I hadn't had it long when I gifted it to another member from Yorkshire, who was then active here, ScruffUK :thumbsup:

Here it is, together with a Frost's of Mora Lapplander with laminated blade that I gifted to Duane @sitflyer soon after too, I only found these pics a couple of weeks ago :thumbsup:

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Nice post, Randy. Congratulations on the 10 years. I always enjoy your posts and input and I hope to see you around here for another 10 years.

I couldn't remember what my first traditional knife purchase was after joining. I had to look at my spreadsheet and apparently, I wasn't very active at buying knives when I joined. I bought this GEC #66 Jack on 11/10/10. I don't have it anymore so I had to steal the photo from the GEC website.

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Randy, you’re definitely a great part of this little place we call “The Porch”. Thanks for all that you’ve contributed, over the last ten years. I’m sure that I’m not alone in saying that it wouldn’t be the same without you. First traditional, after joining BF? I can’t even remember! -Lance
 
Congrats on 10 years here, Randy!

My profile says I first joined in 2004. That's a bunch of knives ago. I was buying knives before the internet became the place to look and purchase. I'm not sure why I first visited this site, I suspect it was when I became interested in custom knives. I suspect the first knife I purchased after becoming a member might have been a Morrow slip joint or a Primos fixed blade. I spent most of my time lurking and occasionally posting in the Custom & Handmade Knives forum and ultimately made my way to the Traditional Forum. I think I've been a Trad forum moderator for about 7 years now, which is how long I've been a retired person. Moderating and posting in this forum pretty much eliminated most of my posting in other forums, since I can't spend all my waking hours here, although my wife might think I still do.

The fact that I still spend so much time here is pretty much because of the great members that frequent this forum. The overwhelming majority of you make the job of moderating almost unnecessary. You guys are the best and I'm proud to be a regular here.
 
Randy, congratulations on your milestone and thank you for your contributions here.

The first knife I bought after joining BF—and my first non-SAK slipjoint—was this Case Seahorse Whittler:

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It was a good knife, but not one that I ever bonded with. Fortunately it now lives with another member who has put it to more use than I did.
 
I joined in May, I had bought a Rough Rider 5 inch barlow and was looking for more info on RR. Google brought me here, after about 30 minutes lurking I joined :D. After reading good stuff about RR here I bought another, then a then a Klein electrician, then a Taylor Schrade... Then a Challenge harness jack, then a bunch of vintage knives at a antique shop....:eek: you guys and gals are a buncha instigators!:p where was I? Oh first after joining..
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I hope we'll all have more than ten more years here, glocktenman glocktenman .

I had to look it up in my profile too. I've been here about 5 years 10 months, but I started in axes, having bought a mysterious one that turned out to be a Maine pattern. I still haven't seen another one in real life.

First traditional knife since then, I've no idea. Probably something old and cheap from an estate sale, antique mall, or flea market, probably a stockman.

First GEC is easy; it's also my last.
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Congrats on a distinguished decade (so far), Randy! :thumbsup::cool::cool::thumbsup: I'll second your hope that you'll be here another 10 years (at least)! :thumbsup::D

I had to do some research to determine what my first knife purchase was after joining BF. Turns out I joined on July 20, 2014 and also had a big river order that day for an Opinel #6 (and 3 DMT credit card diamond hones).
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A couple of weeks later, we went on vacation and I purchased these two while we were gone:
a tortoise shell sunfish
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and a consignment shop Recruit
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I bought several knives before joining BF, four Cases and one Schrade. I think the first knife I bought after joining BF six months ago I still haven't received, but it should look something like this:

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I've bought a few since then, and am saving for my next purchase.
 
Congrats on the 10 years!

I joined in 2003, and I was hanging out in the Schrade subforum at that time. I don't recall what my first knife was on joining the forum, but it was probably a Schrade. I've acquired many knives since then, but the friends and memories I've acquired here are worth far more to me!
 
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I'm posting my first knife I purchased after joining BF. Maybe, if you recall your first after joining, you can post it too!
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Congrats Randy! Here is a link to my very first picture post :D

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/old-knives.527126/page-670#post-17674889

And this is one of the knives I purchased the very day I signed up for BF; a minty Schrade Walden fruit/melon tester. I figured what better place to get a melon tester than from the Florida Department of Citrus! :D It looks like cracks in the handle but there really aren't, it is totally in the handles like that... pretty cool really ;)

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May you have many more years and congrats on your milestone !!

I used to hang out at the long gone ESEE sub forum, in the beginning.. I bought a Izula II. Still carry the bullet ant in my pack. I was bitten by a bullet ant in the jungle of Costa Rica and you remember your first one :eek:
 
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Congrats on 10 years here, Randy! :thumbsup:

Apparently I also joined BF ten years ago -- just six days after you, in fact -- on July 26, 2008. I don't remember why, to be honest; probably had something to do with Benchmade knives, I suspect, which was all I really carried back then.

I didn't actually start posting here until April of 2015. At that time, I was looking for information on this old knife that belonged to my grandpa.

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After that, I started poking around here on the Porch, and quickly got started on my new favorite hobby. :D Before that point, I'd never heard of GEC knives, and now I have... well, let's say a few. :cool: These were the first two knives that I bought after becoming active here on BF.

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Been around 10+ years here. I enjoy this forum. Hope you continue to enjoy the forum.

When I first joined, I was all about SOG stuff.... not traditional by any means. I have been buying and using traditional knives for a long time and long before the internet. I suspect my first traditional purchased after joining here was a Case Trapper. But they all kind of run together memory-wise. It took some convincing to take the GEC step, but I did and the first one I purchased was a trapper pattern followed by a #56. I quickly moved to larger GEC's trying to figure out what I liked best.... 23's, yes. Settled on the #42's as my favorite, but I am beginning to favor things like the #73 or something akin to the 2012 forum knife.
(Corrected the forum knife year.)
 
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