8,000 posts! The Winners have been Chosen!!

Congratulations on the first 8,000 posts! Those are very interesting and beautiful knives, most generous of you to give them away and I think I qualify to be considered.

Although I am a steel junky, and I carry tactical knives as well, I find it interesting that 9 times out of ten I reach for my 8OT when something needs to be cut. I have to laugh when I see someone whining about this or that knife's tip being too thin for hard use, since they are usually twice as thick and three times as wide as the clip point on that stockman that has been used harder than most people will ever use a knife.
 
Congrats on 8000 Charlie,
Do not consider this an entry just wanted to wish you another 8000 and let you know how I enjoy your posts as they are always very well done and informitive. Heck I am not even a member for a year yet, Best of luck and nice knive's as a few people are going to be very happy.
 
Great giveaway Charlie. Thanks!

One thing I love about traditional knives is how varied they are. There is some consensus of course, but one person's definition of a traditional can differ greatly from the next. For example, traditional knives to me mean bolos and balisongs. Just what I grew up with. I didn't even own a slipjoint until a half dozen years ago.

- Christian
 
Wow!
That is most generous! While I don't qualify as a BF "newbie", I'd like to say thank you for your posts. I've learned a lot more about traditional knives in the few months I've been here than I knew in my entire life.

Slipjoints remind me of my dad. He gave me my first knife, his Imperial Barlow, after I drove him crazy for it. Whenever I look at it or use it, I think of him and smile. It's something that was his, given without fanfare, just a "here, you can handle this now" and a quick shoulder squeeze.
 
I want to be in this give away. My favorite thing about traditional knives is that they have personality, I think, more so than their "modern" knives with their bolt together designs and also more aesthetic handle materials (bone & stag & wood specifically).

8000 posts!! That's a lot of posts! And I enjoy them all (although I haven't read all 8000).

Ed J
 
I don't often enter these but I'm going to jump in on this one.

Congratulations, Charlie!

My favorite thing about traditional knives in general is the memories they bring back about the people who introduced me to them.

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Congratulations on the BIG 8 0 0 0, Charlie! Your spirit benefits traditional knife collecting as well as this forum. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for traditional knives... btw... I now associate vintage knives with a yellow background. :p ;)

One thing interesting about this old Remington sowbelly is that both blades share one spring.
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There are a lot reasons that I enjoy traditional knives. There are nostalgic reasons as well as practical ones. Many traditional patterns have stood the test of time and many are still being manufactured today --There's gotta be a good reason for it. :thumbup:
 
I don't do a whole lot of giveaways because I have a lot of knives and I like others to get a chance, but no way would I miss one of Charlie's knives.

Favorite thing about traditional knives is that they've let me meet a bunch of great people on this forum (usually at the Blade Show)
Me, Elliot (Blues), Yuko Tozaki, Ryuichi Kawamura and Gus (Bastid)
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Sencond favorite thing is that they have history
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Favorite thing about any one particular knife....I love the rounded spine of my R1123 bullet....it is so cool and I wish other makes would do it more (Tony Bose did on a bullet he reproduced :)
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Wow 8000! I'm new and can't imagine how long it will take me to reach that many posts. Congrats!
Traditionals? The history behind them of course.My favorite is a Case XX big Sodbuster that my Dad bought the week I was born(along with a jr.) The jr. was my first Case but Dad carried and used the big buster until I was able to open it,then gave it to me(though it still seemed to wind up in his pocket more often than mine) It's a 71 and 40 years later,it looks it age,scarred and faded,dinged and sharpened,but still cuts like a Case and is still my favorite Case and traditional knife.Dad passed when I was in my teens and didn't leave much,but I do have our Case Sodbusters and still carry that old black beast with me when I head out for some quiet time in the woods.Makes me feel he's still right there along with me sometimes,pointing out a good fallen tree to dig some fatwood from or a beautiful view across the lake at sunset.I've added others to the collection since then,mostly 71's.A trapper in redbone is my other most frequently carried traditional,but that worn old Sodbuster has too many memories in it to stay out of my pocket for long.Soon it will be time to hand the Jr. over to my little girl and eventually,but not too soon,the big buster.I can only hope that years from now they will carry as many great memories for her as they do for me.Don't think I qualify for the giveaway,but I had to share my thoughts on traditionals and why we love them.Here's to the next 8000!


My 40 year old Case XX Sodbuster 2138 LSS.Purchased by my Dad the week I was born.I may not have him anymore,but I've got memories and the best ones include this old Buster. There's a reason all knives are measured against a Case XX,it's the same reason I measure myself against my Father.They don't come any better.If only Dads really were made of steel like we thought they were when we were little,we could keep them forever too.
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As much as I would love to be in this, I just cant, as I have been a recipient of generosity of one of our greats here in Traditionals quite recently...so please do not consider this an entry, but I want to try and explain the feeling that you feel when holding a beautiful old Traditional.

Something that ties in the complete package of.... Quality that a Genuine Craftsman of qualities that are now few and far between has produced more than my lifetime ago, and yet that hard worked tool is more of a treasure to me because it still snaps like the day it was made, the blades are showing the 3/4's of a Century of work, yet yield another Century of use in wait, if your lucky enough to hold a Stag or Jigged Bone sample of these beauties, the deep Amber glow that is ebbing from those scales gives you such unmatched satisfaction... there are just so many things that a good quality Tradional gives.

And speaking of such, we have our very own Vintage Traditional... Charlie:D, I wouldnt call Charlie an Antique, but he has the knowledge of Several Antiques combined, and yet he shares this with us, and I just want Charlie and everyone else here to know that he is a way cool kinda guy, and we all are in indebted to him very much.
Please stay with us for at least another 8000, even better 16000 posts Charlie.
 
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Charlie,

Please do not consider this a entry but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for what you have done for the members here on Bladeforums and the knife world in general. You are a true asset to the world of traditional pocket knives.

A big congratulations on 8000 posts! I look forward to the next 8000
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Ken said it far more eloquently than I could. Like his post, mine is not an entry, merely a thanks for all you bring to this forum.
 
Thanks for 8000 helpful, informative posts.


What I like about my traditionals is the connection to the craftsmanship of bygone days. I appreciate and respect the skill it takes to make a nice knife like a GEC or a Schatt & Morgan.
 
Congrats on 8k posts.
I think I qualify.
I like traditionales becouse their carbon steel's smell, the sound when they snap, the well made they are.
 
I honestly really feel a connection to a simpler time when I use a traditional slip joint. When I am carrying or using one, I just feel like something is going right about the day. No flashy "quick draw" from a pocket clip. No spring assisted opening. No conversation about how tactical they are, or how I would use them to fend off multiple attackers, while using my situational awareness to respond to all threats with Ninja like quickness and righteous Samurai fury.

Just a pleasing weight in my pocket. A satisfying snap when I open one with both my hands, and an efficient and pleasant slicing of what ever tasty fruit is for the kids snack time.

When I cut a line fishing, the use of a traditional just makes it feel more like fishing.


These may not be "facts" but just how I feel.


Congrats on the posts, and thanks for the stellar giveaway!
 
Thank you for the information you gave and the knowlegde you shared.

Great idea about making such a giveaway!

What I like in traditionals, especially old traditionals is the history theese knives contain. Who was the guy who carried them? If it was any family member you can ask someone who he or she was. But carrying my own (new bought) traditionals a long time, using them, honing and sharping them and so on will let that tradition going on. I like the feeling that gives me a knife in my pocket. Without it I feel naked and not very well. Someone, I hope my children or grandchildren, will like once to know who I was. Giving them something useful on the way is more important than an amount of money, I think. Back to the roots.

Thanks for the chance!

Kind regards
Andi
 
Not an entry but id like to comment anyway..Traditional knives have become my favourite through personal maturity.The tried and tested patterns of REAL MEN who did more work with a slippy or basic fixed blade,than most of us could ever imagine..I carried my fathers generic solingen fixed blade on countless deer hunting trips from the age of 4 years (with my red plastic horse of course) and cannot remember a time in my life when i have not owned atleast one knife..I have collected and used from tactical to impractical and have now gone back to where i started (the circle of life perhaps?)...Who wouldnt like pulling out a pocket worn favourite with scalpel sharp carbon blades anyway???......To you Charlie...long life and good health Sir!!...... FES
 
My favorite fact about traditionals is the sparse variety of people who did and do carry them...they are so much more than a cold piece of steel, they could be memories of your grand father or that special camping trip you had with your family as a kid. What do I like most? I like that no matter how old, beat up, worn they get I can still see value in each piece I have had since new or have acquired well late in its life...my first real old piece was ironically a Remington half congress which came to me in pretty bad shape but after some real TLC I still carry it quite a bit and use it as it should be, its not too far shy of 100 years old with a good 100 left in her.

Thank you for the opportunity and your continued contribution to this great little section here on BFC, congrats on 8k!!! :D
 
Charlie, I'd be honored to be counted in on this giveaway. I'd be happy to win third to tell you the truth. Stunned to win second. Flabergasted to win first.

Fact about traditional, hum. I guess it could really apply to almost anything but I appreciate how a traditional knife can connect me to memories of those that have gone before. I hold my grandfather's tl-29 variant in hand and I go back in time to when I was a lad out hunting with my father and grandad and my brother, seeing granddad sit on the tailgate during a break and using his tl-29 to peel an apple and cut it up into pieces he could handle with his dentures. Priceless.

Thanks, Charlie. I think I'm gonna go find an apple to eat.
 
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