Free Okapi And Opinel Contest

Oh wow:) I actually won something!?:D I never win anything. Thanks so much for the contest Steve. You're a spot-on good guy;):thumbup: Once again, I want everyone to know that I was really just having a good time with this. It was all shameless BS for shameless BS' sake, and it was a good time;):thumbup:

Email to follow, Steve:) And thank you, Yvsa. for judging and wading through all of the crap to pic the winners:):thumbup:

Jake
 
Congratulations to the WINNERS!

It has been a contest to remember. I don't know about you guys, but I sure had a good time with it. I feel like I have made some good friends, too.

Yvsa, you have been a great sport. Thank you being the judge.

I will miss the post office today, but I'll ship the knives on my lunch hour Monday. Remember, winners have to post pictures of their prize knife and its packaging!

Imagine. This contest has five pages and about 1,000 hits. I had no idea it would get that big. I might have to buy a case of knives and have a monthly contest it was so much fun. All you contestants did a terrific job and had some very imaginative entries.

Thank you all for playing along!
 
See? Yet another reason for cheap knives...a guy can afford to give them away just for fun's sake.

Congrats to the winners for sure and welcome to the cheap knife club!
 
Nasty said:
Congrats to the winners for sure and welcome to the cheap knife club!
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Yes That is so ME ! :D

Anyways much thanks to Steve for putting up the knifes for this very fun and enjoyable contest.

And thanks to Yvsa for picking this undeserving winner. :o

Thank you.
 
VERY nice.

And now, with this as an initial motivator, Steely Gunz's International Campaign for Fwuzzy Puppies and Widdle Wabbits (SG ICFPWW), will file for tax-exempt status with the IRS, register as a limited liability corporation in Indiana, open a web-site, and begin to spread the faith on DOGS WITH DEPRESSION. (Random House, 2006, $46.73.)

Steely will begin to wear tailored white suits to work and have a tan 12 months a year, with a manager, staff assistant, and personal trainer to "attend" to him. Some of the donations will go to some puppies, somewhere, sometime.

Sadly, Astrodada will still be trying to get his prize through Custom's inspection. Concrete jungle and all that.


Congratulations to the winners.
 
Kismet. I do think that you deserve to win this prize more than I do.

I had emailed Steve Poll about this undeserving winner here :o, and hope this opinel goes to someone who can really make a good use of it. :o
 
Oh no, you don't.

You won it, you gotta take it. Them's the rules.

You richly deserve it. Besides, it will serve as a shining beacon of the good fortune to follow every day in the future of your life.

Think of it as an icon of joy-to-be.

Congratulations.


Be well and safe.
 
KISMET said:
You won it, you gotta take it. Them's the rules.
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Just send it to this guy, perhaps he will then be able to trim his ear whiskers.

n2s
 
Kismet, I have never won anything. Thing had turn bad lately.

I do need the good luck fortune icon.

But what you had said led me thinking. I have led a good life. My wife's lovely and my kids' growing up. Lovely as well. What can I ask for more. Well here I am back to thinking what's important in my life. Thank you Kismet for the kind words. I am aleady very lucky.
 
I have received the addresses for our two contest winners. I'm boxing up the knives for shipment. They will both go out Monday. Congratulations guys, I hope you enjoy your hard won prizes!

Gee, this was fun. I actually feel like a winner too. I've made some Cantina friends. Thank you all!
 
Steve had just agreed to paid extra shipping charges to HK to this unworthy winner of the prize.:o :*)

Grateful and shameful at the same time. Thanks Steve. Thanks Yvsa. And thanks to all.
 
Hey Jake, here's some tips to maximize your "Okapi Experience" :D

- Look at the blade, which is very decent carbon steel with a good temper by the way. You'll find that it's flat ground, with a fairly obtuse secondary or "micro" bevel at the cutting edge. That needs squaring away. Use a belt sander, diamond hone, carborundum, etc., to thin that edge down, convex it if you like, or simply establish a more acute edge bevel somewhere between 15 and 20 degrees. It used to be that "setting the edge" was a task necessary on just about any newly purchased knife, it was left up to the owner to decide what his final edge would look like. I liked that, and kind of miss those days. Think about it, on a three blade pocketknife, I could have three different edge profiles, each suited to different tasks. One old habit for the blade I used for whittling, was to "chisel/plane grind" it by honing a precise bevel on one side and polishing the other side nice and flat. Try that sometime on one of your old junker knives, I guarantee you'll go hmmmmm. ;)

- Okay, now that the blade's good and sharp, take a look at the pivot joint. Contrary to popular logic, a little bit of play or "wiggle" don't hurt a durn thing. Have to remember, a knife like this is intended for cutting only, not splitting kindling or prying hubcaps off of cars. Still, if the wobble is enough that it bothers you, you can square it away in most cases by lightly peening the mild steel pivot pin with a hammer. Don't get carried away though, you can get it too tight. A drop of mineral oil in the joint from time to time will keep it "walking and talking":D

- And last, but not least; "Quiet open and quiet close". All owners of the French made Laguiole knives will know right away what I'm talking about, Andy found out what I'm talking about the hard way on his Okapi. On many of the old school European clasp knives, the blade edge will contact the inside of the handle if allowed to snap shut. Cultivate the habit of opening and closing your knife smooth and gentle, instead of just snapping it open and snapping it shut, and it'll live longer. That applies to any slipjoint folder really, but especially to these.


Enjoy,
Sarge
 
Thanks for the info, Sarge:)

I'm a big slippy fan. I guess lockback knives have their place, but give me a fixed blade and any old SAK and i'll be happy. I've got a couple of carbon steel slip joints that had to be thinned way down to be great cutters. Heck, one of them was found last year in my GREAT-grandfather's tacklebox. Rusted shut with blackened blades. It hadn't been opened in at least 18 years (he's been gone that long). The main blade was still keen although worn down to nub:eek:

Once again, a big thank you to Steve and Yvsa and all the members of the Cantina. I hope i didn't lay it on too thick. I'm going to pick up a few more from Ragweed. Well I hope to. My game plan was to use a little berfday scratch to pick myself up a couple of cheap knives to play with. However, the wife decided that we needed to spend $175 on wine today:rolleyes: Don't ask. I don't wanna talk about it;) Actually, we bought 15 bottles, but it spread among several people. Anyway, my point is that even if i am now broke (although I have enough wine to last me for a good long time) I still at least came out with a great knife from a great guy that is attached to a great memory:)
Kis, I'm digging that idea. However, the full on tan and white suit might make me look like a young Mr. Roerk (sp?) from Fantasy Island.

Thanks again, gentlemen
Jake
 
Steely_Gunz said:
However, the full on tan and white suit might make me look like a young Mr. Roerk (sp?) from Fantasy Island.
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"We've come for your kitty. . . . ."

Ha, giggle, snork, Arrgh, me grog just went down the wrong pipe.

Sarge
 
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