The "My Turn for a GAW" GAW *WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!*

[Prester John]

Congrats, Gary! Lots of fun, Darren! Thanks again.

 

[RayseM]

Way to go Gary . More stitching ahead

Congratulations to you and Cheers to Darren - waverave for the nicely done GAW!

Ray

 

[r redden]

Congratulations Gary and well played Darren.

 

[JTB_5]

Congratulations Gary and thanks again Darren!

 

[Icky Thump]

Congrats Gary!

Thanks for the great GAW, waverave

 

[Henry Beige]

Congrats to Mr. Graley, and thanks to Waverave for an entertaining event.

 

[315]

Excellent

 

[Jack Black]

Congratulations Gary, and thanks again for a great giveaway Darren

 

[fishiker]

Congratulations Gary W. Graley and thanks to waverave Great giveaway!

 

[joeradza]

Congrats guys.

 

[BladeCommander]

Great giveaway. Thank you for letting me play. Congrats to Gary.

 

[Fodderwing]

Congrats Gary! Well done waverave and thank you sir.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

The folder arrived today, mailman took his sweet time, probably using it to cut bundles apart and didn't want to give it up until the very last minute

Thanks Darren, this is one solid folder, pretty amazing. Here are some photos taken just now, first one shows it beside a medium stockman from Boker, really dwarfs that a lot !

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Made my Friday as well as the up coming Labor Day weekend, nice timing there !
G2

 

[JohnDF]

Looks like a guy could get a lot of work done with that knife. Congrats again Gary.

 

[waverave]

Glad it made it to you safely Gary enjoy!
It is definitely a working knife in the hand it feels like you could skin a woolly mammoth with that thing

 

[5K Qs]

Belated congrats to Gary G on winning the fine knife!

And belated plaudits to Darren for a generous and very engaging GAW!! Even though I didn't enter because I thought lots of others would enjoy the knife more than I would, I followed the thread quite faithfully to read about entrants' happy places. The GAWs I enjoy the most are the ones in which participants are encouraged to provide some kind of info that helps us to know them a little better!

- GT

 

[waverave]

Thanks GT I enjoyed it a lot and can't wait to do another one soon.
Have a great weekend

 

[RayseM]

... it feels like you could skin a woolly mammoth with that thing

...but they are so cute



Have fun with your new knife Gary but please leave our furry friends alone. Nice one by the way

Ray

 

[waverave]

RayseM lol!

 

[waverave]

So after I notified Gary that he had won the GAW he asked for my address again so that he could send me a coin as a traditional way to say thank you when gifted a knife. I thought that was a cool gesture and looked forward to seeing what coin it was going to be.
I got home from work tonight and found a package waiting for me from Gary...and it was WAY to big to be just a coin but if you've seen his packaging before you would know he doesn't mess around. So maybe it was a well protected coin Nope...it was more than that.


So I thought wow maybe he used a cigar box to protect the coin! Nope...it was not a cigar box.



There was my penny...the "coin" he said he was going to send me lol...taped inside an awesome knife box along with a cool bead and a lanyard! The penny is actually from the 60's and very cool



Talk about making my whole day. What a great gesture and perfect gifts and I am taken back by all the generosity I have received from you, Gary, and so many others here (was gifted a knife today that I can't wait to take photos of and properly thank the one who gave it to me). Seriously, what a great community and great bunch of folks. In a time where there is so much to be worried about in the world, it brings me great joy to be a part of all this. Now, for real, have a great weekend! Thanks Gary W. Graley