5K U-Pick-I-Pay Black Friday Giveaway

Congratulations to lambertiana and thanks to GT for a cool and generous GAW !!!
 
Congratulations Lambertiana :) Well done GT, this was a lot of fun :) Glad you're here my friend :thumbsup:
 
Congrats, lambertiana! Thanks for the chance, GT! And congrats on 5K posts, that's quite a feat!
 
Congratulations, lambertiana, and many thanks for a fun run, GT. Also, congrats to you for your 5K milestone.
- Stuart
 
lambertiana hasn't replied to my PM yet, and he hasn't been "seen" at BF since about 30 minutes before my "drawing". Maybe ending a GAW on Black Friday when so many folks are busy, traveling, etc. was not a great idea! :rolleyes:

So while I'm waiting for his reply, I thought I'd respond to a few entries (or non-entries) that caught my eye during the GAW.
abbydaddy said:
Congrats on the milestone 5K!

While I would love to participate in the GAW considering the 5K for 5K coolness, I just really really like it when a knife I try to win is chosen by the giver... if that makes sense. I honestly have all the knives I want (except for a nice elephant toenail and every bladeforum knife) and so it is the sentimental value of a knife that someone else selected to give that motivates me. All of which is a long and awkward way of saying, thanks for the opportunity, but this is not an entry.
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I completely understand your position, abbydaddy, and tend to share your attitude. I've received several gift knives that I'd have NEVER got for myself, and subsequently found that they were MUCH more appealing knives than I'd ever given them credit for. So that's a "practical" advantage of a knife chosen by someone other than yourself, in addition to the huge "sentimental" advantage. But past experience taught me that there was limited interest in my giving away some of my fine inexpensive knives. So I thought I'd try a GAW where almost everyone could enter for a chance to get a knife in which they were definitely interested, since they got to choose!

Henry Beige said:
Very well conceived, Gary. You might call this the eponymous giveaway.
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You have a way with words that I admire, HB, you silver-tongued devil! :thumbsup::D

J_Curd said:
We’ll be needing your entry too, good sir. Make with the details. :)
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One of my goals for the GAW was to "get suggestions" about knives folks were after, so I could do some research to see if someday I might be interested in such knives. (Of course, I do have my current "wish list", independent of this GAW. ;))

Ramrodmb said:
Not an entry, but wanted to say: Very generous of you, as usual, GT! I'd like to point out that almost every one of your posts is like 20-30 posts in one, so really, you are well above 5k. :) I think of your forum name as "5 thousand quotes" :thumbsup:
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Good analysis, Mark. :cool::thumbsup: This probably explains why my perception is that I reached 1000 and 2000 posts MUCH faster than I got from 2000 to 3000 or 3000 to 5000! :rolleyes:

Signalprick said:
I had a SAK ALOX Cadet that I carried everyday for over 2 years that I had to "give" to a security guard when I took my son to a Cub v. Brewers game back in September. Forgot I had it in my pocket. Been meaning to pick up another. Maybe I'll get lucky here and could win one of the more limited versions. Thank you kindly for your generous give a way and congrats on your 5K milestone!
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Signalprick said:
Her pocket! ;)
A day at the ball park with my little guy is worth any pocket knife. Just forgot to leave it in my car so I gladly handed it over. No biggie. Glad to have the opportunity here. :)
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Sad to hear you lost your Cadet going to a ball game. :( Alox Vics and baseball are a couple of "passions" for me. Looks like your son is a Cubs fan; me too! I've had this poster in my office for years:
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PM coming your way.

Kiteman72 said:
Congrats on 5000 posts! I have to admit, I am always "stalking" your posts hoping for some more dog content. :)

Your generosity is amazing, if I were to win, I would like the money to go to puppy cookies for your dogs, and maybe some cute Christmas sweaters. ;)
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Our dogs strenuously object to wearing sweaters of any kind! My wife has also tried to get them to wear "antlers" around Christmas, but that's been a major fail, too. My daughter had them all wearing little Christmas "neckwear" yesterday, though; maybe I can get some pics of that! :D

Amir Fleschwund said:
A bit humbled by your generosity here.

I joined this forum quite a while ago, mostly out of interest in one hand opener, pocket clip knives. When my oldest boy died of injuries from A’stan this past July, I had to go through his stuff. Among his things, I found a large assortment of knives- not one tradional folder. In sorting through them, I realized I’d lost my love for the tactical stuff - and other things as well. I let the weeds take over the garden, and the guitar body I was painting still sits on my bench. Except for a couple ( the Ek Bowie I gave him when he deployed, and a Tighe folder his uncle gave him) with sentimental attatchments, I’ll be selling those off. The clincher was in August, using one of his locking, half serrated Gerbers cutting plastic field tiles down in a muddy hole on the farm, sand and grit caused the lock to fail and it closed on my index finger cutting it to the bone.

I dug out my old Shrades and Grandpa’s old Camillus easy opener jack, rediscovered this forum, and bought a few too many traditionals. Now I’m at the point ( like many here, I suspect) where I have a hard time picking a couple for the day’s carry.

So this is not an entry... the only one I hope to come across someday is a Schrade Walden 881Y Lg Stockman in yellow delrin to match my old trapper. It’s hard to find one on which the blades have not been ground down by an angry beaver with a grinder.

Your posts are a joy, and useful for trying to keep up with the old knives and what’s in your pocket thread, so please don’t stop!
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Very touching post, Jeff; I'm so sorry for your loss!

- GT
 
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Wow, I just got home and saw this! After a really fun drive home from Utah (visiting parents for Thanksgiving) I needed something to brighten my day - a lot of my route is on I-15, which also happens to be the only corridor between the Los Angeles basin and Las Vegas, and half of the LA basin must have gone to Vegas for the weekend. One 150 mile traffic jam between Vegas and Barstow in the middle of the desert...UGH!

You can now count me as officially cheered up. Thanks!
 
Congratulations on your milestone, GT! 5k posts is no small feat.

Congratulations, L lambertiana ! I will look forward to seeing your new addition(s) in the not so distant future.
 
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