Going Gold Giveaway

Cvrobinson said:
A web search for details of an old knife brought me here. In 30 minutes the members here showed genuine concern and took their time to help me. From there I spent many hours from forum to forum learning and exploring.
But it wasn't just about knives, I've cried with the man who lost his dog, felt the pain of the gentleman who lost his brother, laughed so hard I cried at "clean jokes", played games, met people, taken advice, gave advice, and feel pride to be part of the community that rushes to others members needs.
I got my membership to support this place, to be part of this place.
Your knife is pretty sweet, that I want one like it is a fact, but more important if you read this whole post is that you have given me a chance to tell someone else besides my dog what this place means to me. Thank you
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I love it! Thanks for sharing and good luck in the giveaway!
 
5K Qs said:
Congrats on the gold membership, JTB_5 JTB_5 , and thanks for the generous GAW! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool::cool: I'm also a big fan of the GAWs that have entrants telling personal stories of some kind. ;):cool:

I recently told HFinn that his Ankermesser was iconic and impressive, so I'm definitely interested in entering your GAW! ;) I like "international" knives and the anchor on the Otter has always appealed to me, although I didn't realize it was an early Christian symbol. (Rough Rider and Case both have at least one model with the "ichthys" fish symbol also used by early Christians, and I intend to get one of those some time.)

Here's my story (basically cut-and-pasted from posts in which I've told it before for one reason or another).

My first knife was a Colonial Forest-Master scout knife I was given about 1960 and used every day for the next 9 years.

I became re-interested in pocket knives almost exactly 4 years ago (after 45 essentially knifeless years that followed this farm kid going off to college). The knife below is a small (3.125" closed) Imperial serpentine jack that I found at my place at the kitchen table in January 2014 when I came back into the house after a couple of hours of snow-shoveling during a blizzard. My wife had found it in a box of her old things, and is quite sure her dad gave it to her back in the 1970s (after carrying it for years himself) when he got a new knife. I spent an afternoon cleaning it up and getting it functional and decided that I was going to start carrying a pocket knife again like I had as a kid back on the farm where I grew up. Within a month, I had discovered Blade Forums and The Porch, and life has been different ever since! :D
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I didn't officially register at Blade Forums until July 2014, but I think of January as my "anniversary". As I thought back over my first year, I realized how much I'd learned from this site, what nice folks I'd "met" here, the amazing amount of generosity of various types I'd experienced here, and how much enjoyment I get from logging in here probably at least a couple of times most days, and it was a no-brainer to "upgrade" to gold in January of 2015. (Plus, I kicked a 40-year cigar habit starting on Christmas Eve 2014, so the savings there easily covered the minimal cost of a membership upgrade. What does a gold membership cost? Less than a dime a day, for sure. Even though my monthly knife budget is relatively small, I can certainly handle the cost of a paid membership!)

Good luck to all the other entrants! :D:D

- GT
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oooo that poor pocket watch hinge, well loved watch there professor?

op, congrats!!! and thanks for the generous chance! not an entry :thumbsup:
 
Well my $0.001 is basically an echo of the others. I have carried a small pocket knife my whole life but was happily clueless beyond "this one is thin and doesn't pull my shorts down" (I've carried a Gerber STL 2.0 for a number of years).

Last fall I saw a picture of a knife that piqued my interest; I don't recall where I saw it. At any rate it was a GEC bullnose in OD green micarta. And believe it or else I had zero clue who GEC was! So a search had me zipping through various sites just to satisfy my curiosity. The crazy thing was I actually thought I could just buy any ol' knife GEC has from their store! F-U-N-N-Y. :rolleyes: The only place that I visited during that brief search that I came back to again was BF. I lurked for a while, learning this and that, all the while greatly desiringadmiring your knives. It didn't take long to say "wow, these folks are fantastic". Taking baby steps I became a basic member for no other reason than to say "you all are great" and support the site in a small way. And also so I could PM Jack Black Jack Black to chat about Yorkshire. :D

Thanks for your generosity JTB_5 JTB_5 , and the opportunity to play along.

Still learning a lot from all of you generous, knowledgeable folks. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

EDIT: to add pic of said Gerber

 
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A Google search about some traditional knives that I had acquired, particularly Parker-Edwards knives, led me here about 12 years ago. I had signed up as a basic member, but only recently rediscovered my knife addiction and decided to go gold to take advantage of all the awesomeness this forum has to offer. So glad I did and I'll never look back. Happy to be here.

Thanks for hosting this gaw and welcome to the gold side!
 
peanutsxx said:
Well my $0.001 is basically an echo of the others. I have carried a small pocket knife my whole life but was happily clueless beyond "this one is thin and doesn't pull my shorts down" (I've carried a Gerber STL 2.0 for a number of years).

Last fall I saw a picture of a knife that piqued my interest; I don't recall where I saw it. At any rate it was a GEC bullnose in OD green micarta. And believe it or else I had zero clue who GEC was! So a search had me zipping through various sites just to satisfy my curiosity. The crazy thing was I actually thought I could just buy any ol' knife GEC has from their store! F-U-N-N-Y. :rolleyes: The only place that I visited during that brief search that I came back to again was BF. I lurked for a while, learning this and that, all the while greatly desiringadmiring your knives. It didn't take long to say "wow, these folks are fantastic". Taking baby steps I became a basic member for no other reason than to say "you all are great" and support the site in a small way. And also so I could PM Jack Black Jack Black to chat about Yorkshire. :D

Thanks for your generosity JTB_5 JTB_5 , and the opportunity to play along.

Still learning a lot from all of you generous, knowledgeable folks. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Thanks for sharing! I'm definitely with you on the admiring/desiring divide (a line thinner than any blade edge, for sure). Good luck in the GAW!

navaja said:
A Google search about some traditional knives that I had acquired, particularly Parker-Edwards knives, led me here about 12 years ago. I had signed up as a basic member, but only recently rediscovered my knife addiction and decided to go gold to take advantage of all the awesomeness this forum has to offer. So glad I did and I'll never look back. Happy to be here.

Thanks for hosting this gaw and welcome to the gold side!
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Thanks for sharing. Being around people of the same interest definitely feeds desire. Good luck in the GAW!
 
Ok, last chance for the GAW is tonight. I'll pick a winner tomorrow and post it in the thread. But please don't stop sharing your stories if you've got them. I've enjoyed the ones people have shared so far.
 
Congratulations, lambertiana!! :thumbsup::cool::cool: Anchors aweigh! ;)
Thanks again for the generous GAW, Joshua! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
I really enjoyed reading other members' stories. :cool::thumbsup:
I hope you'll be a gold member for many years to come! :)

- GT
 
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