The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
; count me in for your fun GAW! I guess I haven't been around long enough to have formed an opinion of your "forum presence", but sponsoring annual birthday GAWs would indicate to me that you must be incredibly generous. I'll post a photo of a favorite knife. It's a little Imperial serpentine jack, probably from the 1960s, that my wife thinks her father used to carry and eventually gave it to her, maybe in the late 70s. Anyway, we've been married for almost 30 years and I had never seen the knife until last January, when my wife found it in a box and showed it to me. It was pretty grungy, but I enjoyed cleaning it up and trying to sharpen it. Once I was finished I decided that, after 45 years of going knifeless, I was going to start carrying a knife every day like I did when I was a kid; I also decided that I'd like to start finding other old knives that I could refurbish and carry. And so the madness began! 
Anyway, it's been a fun 10 months since I first saw this knife, and I've learned so much, especially in this forum.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway. I have been a forum member on several knife forums and none of them have the same type of atmosphere as this one. The generosity and the humbleness that exist here is what keeps me coming back day after day. Plus traditionals are the bees knees.
This is my only traditional right now:
It was in my grandmother's house among some of my dad's old things in the bedroom he grew up in. We found it while we were clearing everything out of the house shortly after she passed away. My dad couldn't remember if it was my grandfather's or his best friend Chris' when we found it, but he was confident it belonged to one of them. Since I have always loved knives he told me to keep it saying that regardless of whose it was, they would probably be be happy if I were to keep it. Both of them passed away many years before I got to meet them but I've been told countless stories about them both since I was young and I almost feel like I know them anyway in a sense. I had the blade kept in a box of "treasures" so to speak for some time. About a year ago I picked it up and held it and had a sort of eye opening experience with it. The rounded edges of the handle and the thin blade made me realize that there are some serious shortcomings with modern knives in the way that they slice and the way that they feel in the hand during extended use. It sparked my interest in traditionals. I picked up a Canal Street Cutlery Moon Pie Trapper in Cocobolo to try one out and loved it. Later on a close friend of mine was admiring the blade to a large degree and he had NEVER admired any of the knives I'd carried before. He's very difficult to please. At that time I told him to keep it. He's carried the Canal Street ever since. He never even carried a knife before that.
After that I didn't carry a traditional for a while, but my interest re-sparked a week or so ago so I ordered a GEC African Blackwood Dixie Stockman to try out. It should arrive tomorrow and will be my first carbon steel traditional knife. I am still VERY new to traditionals overall. Count me in on the Giveaway, please. If I had a better picture to submit I would, but I have only the camera on my phone and only this old heirloom knife to show.
I'm impressed that you are using your birthday as a time to give rather than to receive, by the way. You have me looking at myself right now and wondering if I'd be too vain to do something similar. I'm afraid it may be the case, so maybe next year when my birthday rolls around I'll consider taking your idea and running with it. It seems like a good way to improve one's character to give during a time when most would expect only to receive.
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Sent an email to the one linked to your account here. I really appreciate it! Thanks for the chance.
I would love some history on this one if anybody has it. Lastly, there's a little Schrade here. Saw cut bone with thin little blades. It's even smaller than a Peanut! I think someday it'll be a good first knife for a little one.