The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Oh Boys, it's me again!
You have to be very careful when you say something on the Porch!...
For sure this little guy will spend a lot of pocket time! Randy, Thank You again!
well in memory of my Old Man I'd like to borrow from Honda's old ad campaign.... I'm comin' to my point, honest I am.
I've found the folks on the porch aren't tough or mean they're a tight knit group of friends who know and care about each other. There's a lot of great folks who hang on both sides of forum, the light side and the dark side. A few days ago I met one of those people and heres the knife he gifted me.
That is sweet, I'm a big fan of the Ol' Yellers, somethin' about the utilitarian look of the yellow delrin. I see I'm goin' to have to check out Case's site more often if this is the kind of knife they're offering.
On the porch, off the porch, doesn't really matter it's the dynamic of this sub forum and the friendships that dynamic fosters. My Old Man was one who liked to quote others and wasn't above paraphrasing other people to get his point across. Back in the late 60s, early 70s, Honda North America had an ad campaign trying to combat the post war negative image of Japan and Japanese manufactured goods. Their tag line was:
well in memory of my Old Man I'd like to borrow from Honda's old ad campaign.... I'm comin' to my point, honest I am.
You meet the nicest people on the porch.
One of the things about the porch is the open sharing of information, history and validating the authenticity of the old knives we love so much. I think many have come to expect that from the folks who make the porch a place they regularly hang their hats and put up their feet, including the people who make the porch a regular stoppin' place on their way about the rest of the forums, I'd like to believe they make it their first stop is the people who congregate here. I find knife people overall are good hearted generous people and threads like this are evidence of that.
I got a PM from a new member with some questions about a knife, we communicated back and forth about his concerns and what I knew that could help him identify what it was. Just doin' what the folk here like to do, sharin' what we know. As a result of just doin' what comes natural the member who I had been messaging back and forth with decided to send me the knife we were discussing. I just wanted to say thank you for the knife, it's found a home with me and is currently occupyin' real estate in my pocket.
It's funny how I hear people say how tough the folks in traditional are and how the only infraction they ever got was in traditional. Hey one of the two I ever got was here.
It was carried by someone who loved and cared for this knife. You can see the worry wear on the scales and bolsters but you can see it was cared for and loved by someone. Here's a knife that tells a story of a knife that was care for and loved. Not over sharpened just maintained and givin' a few swipes on a stone when needed. These joints were oiled when needed yet this knife as you can tell by the natural patina on the blades was well used and not put on a shelf to just look at. I can't recall the last time I saw such a nicely worn, well loved and cared for knife. Worn because of use but not over worn from abuse. The more I handle it it reminds me of a knife I might have owned or more accurately what the knife I owned will look like when their new owners have them.
A knife like this has more value in the story it's 40 year old life had to tell so far and as long as I don't lose it the stories it has yet to tell. You'll be seein' more pics and hearing more stories involving this '77 Case 6249, thanks Gunther85 for thinkin' of me. This is part of my user knives now and will taken care of and used in the manner it's been accustomed to every time I take it outta my pocket to show or use I'll remember where it came from and a new friend I met as a result of the people and the porch.
:thumbup:It's funny how I hear people say how tough the folks in traditional are and how the only infraction they ever got was in traditional. Hey one of the two I ever got was here.
I remember when I first started posting here regularly, I was dum enough to make this post (I'm embarrassed to read it now)! 
Gary sent me a nice PM saying that he'd only meant to give me a warning, but pressed the wrong 'button', and not long after Elliott, who used to mod here, generously gifted me a Gold membership I ran a giveaway by way of apology - and made sure I read the forum guidelines! :thumbup:
The Levine forum, now that was TOUGH back in the day! :thumbup:
Like myself, Randy loves to read books, and he recently sent me these two volumes, which I am looking forward to reading, together with a lovely little Uncle Henry Stockman, and a special coin. Thank you very much Randy, you really are a great guy :thumbup:
:thumbup: Leghog's giveaways have been extremely generous :thumbup:
