GAW - Annivesary - One Year of BladeForums! GEC History Book Giveaway.

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Hale Storm

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Hello Everyone,

September 18, 2014 will be a full year since I joined BF. It has been a wonderful experience. I was and still remain, proud to be a part of this great community. It is the greatest collection of honest, and honorable people I've ever met.
I have learned more than I can say and made a few friends so far. I've had the time of my life interacting with like minded knife knuts and even trying to help a noob when I could.

One area where I learned the most is the Traditional forum. A passion was created for days gone by and for new adventures. That rebirth of new adventures in slip joints started with this book, shortly after I bought my first GEC.

Now I've read it, enjoyed it, and learned a lot from it. Time to pass it on to someone else new who has developed a passion and love for these knives.

Simple rules:

1. Must have been on the forum for one year or less.
2. Must post at least one traditional pic.
3. Tell me a story of why you like/love traditionals and what you get out of owning them.

I will pick a winner on 09/18/14.

Thanks and Good Luck.

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I really get a lot of enjoyment out of the thought I am crying a knife my grandpa would have loved.

I have his old worn out barlow, and remember him using his slip joints and old fixed blades growing up.

They just give me an old timey feeling.


When I fish, or hunt, or butcher a cow, I'm thinking a lot about him.

I'm trying to get my hands on the old knives my grandfather used to butcher his own cattle. My family still has them.




I read the rule as at least a year on the forums, but looking again, I think you meant a year or less, so this would not be an entry under that rule.
 
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I've always loved pocket knives, but mainly carried moderns. One day I was looking through an old box of my father's and found a few traditional bucks and other knives. I fell in love with the Buck, it was a 500. Problem was my father had been gone for maybe 8 years at the time. I couldn't bring myself to daily carry it. But, after a few more years I found this forum. Now I have 5 traditional knives that I can carry. My fathers knives are now my prized safe queens, no matter how used they were.
Down here where I'm from the young guys carry moderns, but the respected men carry traditionals. I just feel like part of a fraternity of sorts when carry my GEC.
 
I love traditionals for 2 reasons, they have soul and they take me back to my childhood when every man worth his salt carried a pocket knife.
 
Wow!

This is going to be tougher than I thought. Three great photos and three great replies. It's gonna be a long 9 days I hope.

Thanks so far.
 
Well, I've been on BF a while,mostly reading (lurking, some call it). I've always had/carried traditional folders, a couple Bucks, a few Case knives, but mostly my ole Uncle Henry Signature. It hurt my feelings to see Schrade go under. RIP Schrade USA. When I first joined, I was intrigued with the Bushcraft/batoning deal. Why not use a hatchet?, but still it was/is somewhat neat. But recently, I've paid more mind to the traditional side of cutlery. I just got a Fremont Jack the other day. Usually I carry a smaller pocket knife and a clip-type folder, but I wanted a more "robust" traditional blade. Boy, did I find it.
Anyway, thanks for a great giveaway. Good luck to the winner. I'll buy a copy for myself for now and maybe when I'm finished, I'll pay it forward. Maybe in this same manner.
 
Not an entry, but thanks for doing this. Great idea for a GAW.
 
Wow!

This is going to be tougher than I thought. Three great photos and three great replies. It's gonna be a long 9 days I hope.

Thanks so far.
 
jone said:
Not an entry, but thanks for doing this. Great idea for a GAW.
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Thank you Jennifer. I was hoping that but as a noob, I wasn't sure. I just really enjoyed the book and thought I would share.
Like our knives are meant to be used as tools and enjoyed, I thought this book should be used and enjoyed as well.

My next GAW will be a knife of course. :D
 
kenash said:
Well, I've been on BF a while,mostly reading (lurking, some call it). I've always had/carried traditional folders, a couple Bucks, a few Case knives, but mostly my ole Uncle Henry Signature. It hurt my feelings to see Schrade go under. RIP Schrade USA. When I first joined, I was intrigued with the Bushcraft/batoning deal. Why not use a hatchet?, but still it was/is somewhat neat. But recently, I've paid more mind to the traditional side of cutlery. I just got a Fremont Jack the other day. Usually I carry a smaller pocket knife and a clip-type folder, but I wanted a more "robust" traditional blade. Boy, did I find it.
Anyway, thanks for a great giveaway. Good luck to the winner. I'll buy a copy for myself for now and maybe when I'm finished, I'll pay it forward. Maybe in this same manner.
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Now that would be a great thing to do. I loved the book, and ironically, the Freemont Jack is next on my list. I know the book will just sit on a shelf so I just felt someone else should enjoy it the way I did. Maybe they'll pay this one forward too. That would be awesome to see it passed around the forum. It would age and develop it's own "patina" if there is such a thing for books. Either way it will have a history.
 
Congratulations on the anniversary Ronnie, and thanks for doing this giveaway for our newer members, that looks like a fascinating book :thumbup:
 
Great GAW!! I started out with modern folders and enjoyed some of them but never really felt attached to them or like they were anything special. After my son was born I read a thread somewhere here on Bladeforums about a "birth knife". Somebody else had bought a knife for the birth of their child and I really liked that idea so I started searching but I really wanted one that actually had the date of manufacture either on the knife or at least on the box proving when it was made. After some searching I found out about Great Eastern Cutlery and their serialized knives that came with a COA that had not only the year but the exact month and even day listed. I spent a lot of time on their site and eventually found they made two different versions of the 66 Calf Roper on the exact day my son was born. One is the Primitive Bone version and the other is Blood Red Jigged Bone so of course I bought one of each. :) From there it has been a downhill slope for sure and within days of receiving my Calf Ropers I was hooked and haven't really carried a modern folder more than 3 times since. In fact I've sold all but just a couple of them to be able to fund my traditional addiction. :) I will post a picture of them now but will be replacing it later on tonight when I get home from work because this picture is pretty poor & taken with a camera that is at least 12 years old lol.

Thank you again for this GAW and if I happen to win I would pass the book along in the same manner you are doing after I have completed reading it. :)

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& this little guy was made on his 1st birthday. :)
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Jake
 
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I have always been a major fan of blades, especially modern. Trads just never caught my interest. A little while ago, I was perusing the Exchange, just looking around when I saw two traditionals for $12 shipped. An imperial and a Camillus. Since then I was hooked. I love the history behind these blades. One of the ones I bought was over 100 years old! I just wonder who has owned this before me, what it has been used for etc, etc.

Thanks for the chance, mate!
 
I have always been the "knife guy" among my friends and I was not biased towards traditional or moderns, I just liked them all. Well ok, not the fantasy wall hanger knives. I never understood those, to me a knife is a tool to be carried and used but to each there own.

Back in October my girlfriends dad passed away from pancreatic cancer and he was a bit of a hoarder. But he hoarded the cool stuff like knives, guns, western memorabilia, fine whiskeys, and tobacco pipes. Neither his wife nor any of hid kids had any interest in his knives so the charge of selling them landed on me. That was my reason for joining Blade Forums because I only knew enough about knives to get myself into trouble and had zero clue about collectible knives. I have spent countless hours on here researching, reading, drooling, and learning to educate myself on what I am selling off. I found the traditional forum here to be very warm and welcoming and it rekindled a passion that must have been asleep inside me because I now find myself leaving my moderns at home and carrying a traditional in my pocket everyday, as well as spending way too much money on new GEC knives for myself when I should be selling instead! :)

Anyway.....it inspired me to dig through some old boxes of mine where I knew I had some old traditionals given to me by my grandpa when I was just a young boy scout. The last thing I needed was another hobby to take up my time, but I think it's here to stay. I find myself not complaining now when the girlfriend wants to go into a antique store because I secretly want to go to and see what they have for old knives.

Here's a pic of my grandpa's knife that had rusted away in a drawer. I attempted to clean it up a bit but was only able to make it operational, not pretty. Here's a link to a short thread about it. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1188413-Rusted-Folder-Needs-Some-TLC?highlight=maverick299

Great giveaway!

 
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When I first started getting into knifes I thought I was going to be into modern folders. Then I got a couple. Nothing againt them, but to me they all felt the same. I love the character that my traditionals have. Its like each knife has its own story. Also, all of the forum has been great but I feel an even stronger sense of community here in the traditional sub forum. Thanks for doing this give away. Even if I dont win I'll probably have to track down a copy of the book.
 
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Thanks for a great GAW. I've been eyeballing that book, so this is a great chance for me. I am into traditionals because I despise the cookie cutter world that we live in. I don't like new neighborhoods where every house looks alike. I don't like new cars, where everything is regulated to the point that people can no longer work on them themselves, thus making them their own. I don't like the identical phones that everybody has glued to their ears, and how they argue about which is the best even though they're all nearly identical. I don't like modern knives that all look and feel the same to me. I look at my knives, and they are all unique in their own way. They are "mine" like very little else that I own. I like that they become more unique and more mine every time I use them. When I was younger I moved to the city. I craved a fast paced life with fancy toys and gadgets. Nowadays, I like living out on a country road where everything and everybody is comfortable and familiar. Traditional knives just fit this lifestyle.
 
I would love to win that beautiful edition.

My father always carried a pocket knife. This one.



I won't go through it all again, I recently reviewed it here http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1218019-Always-had-an-Eye-for-this-one but I shall elaborate a little. I remember when I was a child, my father would pull it out of his pocket and use it for just about everything. I remember being handed it one Christmas to open presents with for the first time and my dismay at being unable to open it's extremely strongly sprung blades - dad had to do it for me. The sense of responsibility and adulthood that I associated with it. Carrying a knife like that meant that Dad was capable of anything. Mum was always saying; "Mike, cut that for me..." This weekend gone past, my old man gave it to me because he now struggles with the springs and favours a softer SAK. I'm so pleased.

I may have been a copper for years but now that I have it; I'm a big boy now.

Thanks for the opportunity,

Paul
 
We have a WINNER!!! Congrats to Kleingra.

This was actually a gift from my son. He'll be proud and pleased that I have passed it one for someone else to enjoy.

I've copied and posted a few quotes from the entries. They are below.

"When I fish, or hunt, or butcher a cow, I'm thinking a lot about him".
"Down here where I'm from the young guys carry moderns, but the respected men carry traditionals".
"I love traditionals for 2 reasons, they have soul and they take me back to my childhood when every man worth his salt carried a pocket knife".
"I love the history behind these blades".
"I found the traditional forum here to be very warm and welcoming and it rekindled a passion that must have been asleep inside me".
"I love the character that my traditionals have. Its like each knife has its own story. Also, all of the forum has been great but I feel an even stronger sense of community here in the traditional sub forum".
"I look at my knives, and they are all unique in their own way. They are "mine" like very little else that I own. I like that they become more unique and more mine every time I use them".

This is the very essence of traditionals.

Thank you to everyone that posted and entered. A special thanks to those who posted and were not eligible or decided not to enter.

I'm proud to be a part of this great community and enjoyed passing on something for others to enjoy.


Congrats again to Kleingra. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

Last but not least, a pic of one of my favorites. A Keen Kutter K440/SS, made only from 1910-1920. 4 blade with Solid Sterling Silver handles.
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Thank you so much for the chance to win this great prize. When I finish reading it I plan to pass it forward in the same manner. It would be cool to see it get passed around the sub forum. I sent you an email with my contact information.

Thanks again!
 
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