My First Giveaway-GEC Boy's Knife in Ebony

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Well I'm pretty new to the traditional side of knives so my first traditional knife was a #66 Primitive Bone Calf Roper. The reason I went with this particular knife is because I was searching for a knife that was made on the same day my son was born. I found out that GEC has the serial numbered knives that come with a COA that has the release date on the card and this happened to be the knife they releases that day. Here is a picture of the knife I received. I have been wanting one of these boys knives in ebony with a clip blade so thank you very much for the chance!



They also released the same knife with the Blood Red Bone scales and I was able to track one of those down shortly after getting the Primitive Bone version.

 
Not an entry please. Just want to say thanks Bob. Thanks for your contributions and the great give away. :thumbup:

My first traditional knife and my first knife too, was a Camillus Cub Scout knife. My dad gave it to me when I was 7. This was long ago. I wish I still had it but unless it's squirrelled away somewhere I haven't looked in decades, I fear it is lost to the sands of time.
 
My first traditional was a small lockback buck knife. It was like a miniature version of the 110 that my stepdad had. I used that knife for a long time and then it just disappeared... I find it funny to think of all the knives that kids have that meet the same fate of vanishing. A memory of it that I carry with me is a scar on the outside of my knee. I was whittling a stick when my brother startled me while I was carving the stub of a branch down. With the extra effort, the knife slipped and gave me a good 1 inch slice.

Thanks for the opportunity, especially since the boy's knife is on my short list, in ebony no less.

Erik
 
I got my first traditional knife from Goldman's a little country store in Tennessee owned by my great aunts husband. My dad got it for me and as I recall it was a pearl handled (possible faux) two blade jack knife of some sort. I do know it was a Case. I also remember having to get stitches that same day from a whittling incident with that same knife! Later that week I became a victim of "Swapping Knives" with the old timers in front of that same old country store. I wound up with a crusty old Anvil stockman that I still have. Bitter sweet memories I guess.....Im in! Thanks for the chance!
 
My first traditional was a little Klein lockback from an uncle when I was 6 or 7, looks like hals a Buck 110. The first traditional I bought was a little Premier brand, single clip blade, black handled barehead jack with no shield. Haven't seen that one for decades, your sweet giveaway is patterned very similarly.
 
My first traditional pocketknife was an Ulster scout knife that my parents gave me around 1968-69. Not too long after I got it, a friend of mine lost it.

Not long after that, my father gave me a two-bladed Victorinox pen knife, it is a pattern you don't see very often.

The next traditional pocketknife was a Buck stockman that I bought in the mid-70s.
 
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My first traditional was probably a SAK. Or maybe a boker pen knife I inherited from my father that was originally my grandfather's. it's missing a shield, a weak spring, and the blades are proud of the liner. Not very photo worthy!
 
:cool: My first traditional knife was a Gerber Folding Sportsman II in 440C that I bought because I needed a small, flat folder that I could carry without being obvious that I had a knife. I also needed something that woud perform utility tasks in a science laboratory and on field trips. The nice wooden inlays and brass frame were also good features, and the prce at the time was very reasonable.

Sadly, I somehow lost the knife while sitting beside the ocean drinking beer, and I have never found a replacement. Several Buck and Schrade lockback folders have come close but have not had the classy looks of the Gerber.

Please count me in for the drawing.
Faiaoga
 
Good luck with everything Bob. That's a fantastic knife and hard to pass up. My own first knife was a very long way away in terms of build and quality. It was a Richards of Sheffield 'Little Chief', with a Native American image on the hollow scales, a worn and slightly rounded clip blade, and a screwdriver/bottle-opener combo as the secondary 'blade'. The knife came from my favourite uncle, and it was passed to my dad to hang onto until I was older. The knife was mine though, and it sat around without any restriction, until one early evening when I was seven, on my way out to play leg-cricket with friends in what is now a busy Sheffield street, I just slipped it into my pocket. And I've been carrying a knife ever since. Thanks for the generous giveaway, and good luck to everyone.
 
My first true traditional (not counting SAKs) was given to me by a traditional subforum member.

I was blown away when I was gifted not one but 3 knives that I was interested in.
It was a Case Tiny Toothpick, Med Stockman, and a Peanut.

I still carry them and fondle them ;)

KG
 
It was a made in Poland slippie, unidentifiable 'stainless' steel blade and spring, brass liners, unidentifiable plastic scales... About 3 inch something between sheepsfoot and pen blade.
The thing would not keep an edge even if just exposed to air...
But it was my first knife, my very fist knife. I've lost it. :( I was 7 or so...
Tried to find a pic of one like , but no luck.

My next was a SAK clone.
 
Congratz on the dealer level! And of course, thanks for the chance, it's a beautiful blade.

About my first traditional, well that would have been an Opinel 6, 7 or 8 that I used quite often when I went on summercamps with my youth movement (something similar to boyscouts). None of those first Opinels survived though, and I don't have them anymore. Some of them broke when I thought it would be a great idea to use them as throwing knives at trees. Several blades snapped off before I realized they probably weren't built for that. I did get good use out of them though. I do have one from when I was a bit older (11-12 yo). It's a 10. I dropped it once by accident, on a stone, and the tip broke off. My dad roughly restored the tip on a grinding wheel. You still see the marks of his rough patch-up, but since it was a user I didn't care. The deep belly is pretty much all gone.

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Some other knives I got pretty early are the following ones. One is a small yellow pocket knife made in Solingen, and the other is some kind of fake Victorinox. Both belonged to my grandfather -who I never knew since he passed away when I was 1 year old-, and were given to me by my grandmother when I was still a little kid (7, 8 years old maybe).
None of these are being used new, they're just reminders of times that are long gone, but not forgotten.

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My first knife was an Old Timer pen knife given to me by my grand father. No idea what happened to it.
My longest kept and used knife was a 2000 Case med stockman in blue bone. Sadly this one went missing about a 6 months ago after 10+ years of use.

I replaced the blue stockman with this nice Queen/Robeson.

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Thanks for the chance.
 
My first traditional must have been some kind of SAK clone, that I lost ages ago. Then I did carry SAK´s and opinels for years. A n07 Opinel was in my pocket for many years, and then a SAK Explorer.
Used them a lot, and enjoyed carry them, I think they are the ones that started my habit of carrying a pocket knife. Just because I enjoyed them.
 
My first traditional knife was my first real knife. A Wenger SAK. It was my 16th birthday present. My passion for knives started a bit before that, when I started sharpening our kitchen knives so I could carve a mini crossbow for a school project. Plus I was watching a lot of MacGuyver back then because it was on after I got home from school, but before my parents got home (I wasn't supposed to watch a lot of TV back then). I honestly don't remember what happened to that knife. I usually had a Leatherman in HS, so maybe I sold/traded it to get a Leatherman.

Thanks for the chance in your giveaway, Bob, and good luck in your venture. I typically don't go for single-blade traditionals (unless it's a straight edge), but I've been drooling over the #15s in ebony that I've been seeing (both the Boy's knife and the Barlow). Something about the simple look, the ebony handles, and the clip blade with the long pull has won me over. I also typically have a hard time letting my carbon steel knives develop a patina, but the #15 is one that I think would look great with a deep patina.
 
My first knife was a Victorinox SAK given to me by by Grandfather back when I was about 8 or 9 years old (over 20 years ago now). I vividly remember him giving my cousin and I a "safety" talk before putting them in our hands. He then gave us a leather belt sheath and we dyed them both black. Having to wait for the sheath to dry was one of the longest waits ever.

I still have the SAK and the sheath. I no longer carry the SAK for fear of losing it, but the sheath is still used every weekend and right now I carry my 2012 BF Trapper in it.
 
when i was in Arizona some years back visiting my aunt i got a schrade mini trapper in a little sports shop and it stayed with me the entire trip doing all the things i could think of. cutting potatoes and gutting fish for dinner, whittling on my aunts porch, mumbley peg with one of the neighbor kids (we stopped after it hit my foot a second time). when i returned from the trip i had to wait to get the knife in the mail but being so excited i got another traditional (a case peanut which after years of on and off now is an edc for me), so when the trapper came, i decided to spread its joy and gave it to an old friend of mine who could appreciate it as much as i did. today he still carries it and there is an edc battle between a new mini trapper of mine and the peanut! thank you for the opportunity for a new edc contender and woohoo for your dealer level.
 
My very first slipjoint was a swiss army classic given to me by my father. I promptly opened it and then let it snap shut cutting my finger. All the while I was ignoring my father telling me not to do what I just did. He took the knife back in anger because my mom was giving him the "I told you so" verbal beat down while tending to my wound. He gave it back later that day when mom was not around. He told me the cut would serve as a reminder and that he expected me to not make the same mistake again. I treated that knife with respect and eventually he gave me an old Barlow next. I really liked that one and kept it with me all the time. He is an electrician so there was always a Barlow on his work belt. (I recently gave him a vintage Camillus electricians Barlow.)
I later earned my scout knife. It was a nice white handled Ulster with the BSA crest on the side.
Unfortunately I no longer have any of them to take pics. Like most kids I used them up or lost them somewhere along the way. Thanks Bob.
 
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Very Generous, Bob! This is NOT an entry; I just wanted to post this old Western States Coke Bottle that was my grandad's. I remember dad skinning many a deer with this knife.



They're long gone, but the knife and memories remain. Both dad and grandad left their mark on the poor old thing (looks like someone took it to a bench grinder with a 36 grit disk), maybe one reason I take better care of my knives! I'll pass it along to my son one day, scars and all.
 
Thank you very much for doing this giveaway and the chance to win a great knife.

My first traditional was a little Imperial key chain switch blade knife from around the 1950's. The knife belonged to a relative of my wife that she inherited and had it in a drawer for years before it dawned on her that I like knives and might want it.

She gave it to me several years ago and I've had it since. It shows some age but still works and really captures the beauty of the old traditional's, despite being a switchblade.

Thanks again for your generosity in doing this giveaway and good luck all!

 
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