Happy New Year!

I can't remember the exact 2019 moment, and maybe it wasn't a single point in time, but I realized I could stop pulling the trigger on new purchases. Now I can enjoy the hobby without constantly spending. Whenever the urge strikes, I wade into the mounds I have.

Hopefully the trend continues.
 
I think when I got my Inkosi its one grate knife, I would like to wish spark and other mods on the forum along with other people hear ONE GRATE NEW YEAR.:)
 
Got this a few days ago and it was a great end to 2019. With so many new ones coming out in 2020 who knows what the best one will be for me. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! THANKS FOR A GREAT BLADEFORUMS SPARK AND AN EXTRA THANKS FOR THE YEARS WORTH OF GIVEAWAYS IN 2019. Kevin
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Happy New Year all!

Best knife moment this year was giving my father a knife I had engraved for him. He loves it and was carrying it today when I saw him. I really can’t ask for better than that.

In 2020 I’m looking forward to seeing more innovation, learning more, and enjoying what I have.
 
My best knife moments (and best overall moments for that matter) of 2019 came over the summer. One highlight was a four day camping trip with the family to celebrate my birthday. Also, this was a big year for my 14 y/o son and I to get out in the wilderness just me and him. We got out into the mountains for hikes at least 2 or 3 times a week all summer long, often up to alpine lakes or waterfalls where we could play in the crystal clear water to cool off and rest before heading back. Of course I always bring an apple to slice up for a snack at the top, which, if I did it right, was more about the contemplative father/son conversations we had while eating it than the apple.

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Also, my eldest daughter (17) asked for a knife for this year. She has a few SAKs, including a Trekker, but she wanted something more along the lines of the ones I carry. She's a southpaw and unfortunately a sufferer of juvenile arthritis, so I had her try some locks out to see what was best and she settled on the AXIS. I surprised her with a mini-grip, which I think was the ideal choice. Even though she had been asking for one she wasn't expecting it, so it was a nice moment to remember.

EDIT: Almost forgot hopes for 2020. Just more adventure and good times with the fam. Oh, and I've been itching to pick up my first Hinderer, so hopefully that pans out for me at some point this year.
 
Best of 2019 was September 22nd the day I joined Blade Forums. Been a great ride. Thank you to everyone that has made this place very welcoming. Looking forward to many years of sharing my hobby and love for sharp and stabie things. Happy New Years Everyone and a special thank you to Spark Spark for the live streams on the week ends. It's a great time. Looking forward to it's continuing success.
 
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Happy New Year to you as well sir !
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What was your best knife moment of 2019
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There have been several this year.
It has been a heck of a great year knife wise for me. Possibly the best I will ever have !
The first thing that came to mind was when not only did my job situation go from pretty messed up to being able to finally feel OK about buying a high end knife for the first time, my CRK 21 to, then getting it and finding out there are still competent crafts people left in the world. The 21 I got was truly well made. It far exceeded my expectations but not my ability to appreciate it.

I then went on to buy several other super steel blades that I had really, really, been wanting. That was great
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I just got something that kind of rivals the CRK and has surprised me at how much I like it. I just had no clue what I was getting I guess. That is my Case Teardrop 64137 Patriotic with the deeply engraved surface. I find the deep ?laser? milling of the bone handle combined with the red, white and blue dye to be extremely satisfying. I just expected the bone to be all the same hight and just dyed. Gosh this knife is cool !
Good job Case ! ! ! !

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what are you looking forward to in 2020?
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Well like abcdef said :
Now I can enjoy the hobby without constantly spending. Whenever the urge strikes, I wade into the mounds I have.
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Before I ordered the Teardrop (and then a Case Doctor's knife) I had been wondering if I just might go all of 2020 without buying a knife. I have SO MUCH that I really wanted and can enjoy that there finally isn't anything I'm pining for.

The Teardrop was a whim purchase to mark and later remind me of an event. The Doctor's knife will let me follow up an investigation of blade design that I was lightly toying with in my mind.

I know I said when I bought the CRK that there was no where to go from there for me. I think we all pretty much knew I was kidding around. But after this years knife purchases I am so well placed to just rotate them and enjoy all these great knives and blade alloys that . . . I just might not buy another knife in all of 2020. I think it would be pretty easy to do and not a "hardship".

Enjoy the new year all !
 
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I think my best knife moment happened about two months ago. I had a storage pod for three years after the divorce and finally had it delivered to my parents in November. In it was my Becker BK5 sharpened by Jerry Fisk, that I won here on the forums.

I showed it to my dad, and he thought it cool, something that would be excellent for all the work he does in the yard. So, on a whim, I gave it to him. He was shocked and thrilled.

I love giving gifts far more than receiving them, and this made both of our days.

In return he built me a hat/coat rack and a very high storage shelf for my room.

For those who don't know, mid 2016 I was diagnosed with liver failure, and was forced to move back in with my parents at age 37.

In those 3 1/2 years, this forum and it's members have helped me keep going through all my medical issues. 2018 was a liver transplant, cancer, and two strokes.

I started 2019 in a nursing home, barely able to walk.

Despite everything, I still bought knives, was active here. 2019 saw some setbacks, but mostly improvement.

I'm looking forward to 2020. My first niece will be born in April, right around my birthday, and I will be going to Blade show west in the fall.

Bladeforums really means a lot to me, far more than just advice on buying my next blade, etc. It's the people. Bladeforums is good people as the saying goes.

Lots of love.
 
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Best of 2019 was September 22nd the day I joined Blade Forums. Been a great ride. Thank you to everyone that has made this place very welcoming. Looking forward to many years of sharing my hobby and love for sharp and stabie things. Happy New Years Everyone and a special thank you to Spark Spark for the live streams on the week ends. It's a great time. Looking forward to it's continuing success.
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Live streams? WTF!? Where do I find these?
 
My best moment of 2019 was seeing my wonderful daughter-in-law carrying and using the custom Victorinox knife and pocket slip I made for her.

I've modded a few Vics and other traditionals and given them to my son. He refuses to use them for sentimental reasons since dad made them. I can't convince him to carry them and use them because he's afraid he'll lose them.

It was a joy to see my DIL carrying hers and using it as a tool the way it was intended.
 
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