Traditional knife Giveaway box round 117 WINNERS CHOSEN !!!

At some point in the past 100 or so rounds, the box was split into 3 smaller boxes and 3 winners were drawn, one box/ winner to continue the passaround and two winners/boxes to keep.
 
seas165 said:
At some point in the past 100 or so rounds, the box was split into 3 smaller boxes and 3 winners were drawn, one box/ winner to continue the passaround and two winners/boxes to keep.
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RLB0414 said:
What about splitting into 2 boxes. This drawing would cost a little more total to ship, but subsequent drawings would be less to ship. Increases odds of winning.
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Gary W. Graley said:
Reducing the overall number of knives in this giveaway/passalong thing would probably be a logical step, plus the remaining knives being of better quality/higher value would set the bar as to what the winner would put in to replace the item(s) they selected. Value over Quantity kind of thing.

One idea might be to separate the lot now, and see if the Original starter of this entire giveaway @mrknife would be interested in taking the fallout and do with as he pleases. He may not want any of it and then I would say the person holding the bag now can keep/give away to friends locally and reduce the overall size that has to be shipped out.

Just a thought, being as I remember what a large quantity of knives that had to be packed up again and shipped out and the cost was pretty high.

G2
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Splitting things up and or culling the herd would be good, but I wouldn't know what to do.

There are a few knives that are fairly worn or have some form of damage , and maybe a knife or two that I just think are a bit roughly put together.
Who am I to decide what should be discarded or what's not a good knife though?
Even the worn or damaged knives have some life left in them, and a number of members still see value in such knives and carry them regularly.

Maybe I should gather what I consider to be the less desirable knives, list the good & bad along with some pictures and get some input ?


I think I'm going to let this run for an extra week while we get this figured out.
 
Sounds like a plan, start with the most obvious ones to set aside for removal. It is easy to get paralysis of analysis and not be able to choose, so approach it with a firm will.
G2
 
I'm glad the box is getting split. I'm sad the Bogdan knife is getting dropped from the ongoing GAW, since that was the only one I was interested in for myself, but I will stay in for this round. If I get one of the boxes, I will focus on whittling it down a little more so I can add less desirable knives to my Field Tech Bag o' Knives.
 
abbydaddy said:
I'm glad the box is getting split. I'm sad the Bogdan knife is getting dropped from the ongoing GAW, since that was the only one I was interested in for myself, but I will stay in for this round. If I get one of the boxes, I will focus on whittling it down a little more so I can add less desirable knives to my Field Tech Bag o' Knives.
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Tell me more about this " Field tech Bag o' knives " .
 
Hickory n steel said:
Tell me more about this " Field tech Bag o' knives " .
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Years back when 315 315 did a big cull of the box, and split it up into a number of smaller boxes, I got one of the boxes. The main box went forward with most of the most desirable knives, but each cull box also had an assortment of very nice knives. I ended up giving away all of the nicer ones here on the forum, but I still had a bunch of the less nice knives (and the old box had gotten epically bloated with a lot of knives that were just of no interest to most Porchenburgers).

After I had given away the nicer knives, I was left with a couple dozen knives I had no use or desire for. But I am an archaeologist, and I work with a lot of young archaeologists and field techs who are recent college graduates with no decent pocket knife. Pause for soapbox rant:

As someone who grew up very blue-collar in bush Alaska, but somehow managed to end up in an academic career, it never ceases to amaze me how many people just don't have a decent pocket knife. Especially young archaeologists starting out. Most of them grew up in settings where people just didn't carry knives, and even though archaeologists tend to be much more outdoorsy than the average person, a lot of recent college grads have simply never carried a pocket knife. Even if they have a "camping knife", many won't have just a little slipjoint for the little stuff. And that's what you need for field work.

I like to think that I am doing what I can to remind young archaeologists (and everyone else I can) that the ability to cut things when needed has been a hominin's birthright since Homo habilis first started flaking tools 2.4 million years ago. Every human and near-human relative since then has been, almost by definition, distinct from even other bipedal apes because we use tools. Especially cutting tools. Cutting tools came even before fire.

It is really only in the last 70 years or so that the idea that people shouldn't have a little knife on themselves became normalized. I think it is because of too much fear of violence (which is ironic, since the last 25 years has become statistically the least violent era in history for most people in western society), and people have come to associate pocket knives with violence. Which seems ridiculous to me, but I grew up around knives. Introducing people to traditional knives helps push back against that trend. When you hold a stockman or a trapper, it is much easier to understand that it is a tool, not a weapon. You don't carry a SAK to stab a stranger, you do it to open boxes, cut up your sandwich, and/or trim a line.

Sorry for the little soapbox rant, but this is something I truly (nerdily) care about. It's also why I give away scout knives every year and teach knife safety to my son's cub-scout troop. The fact that there is so much generosity in the knife-knut community definitely helps me out because I am able to give far more than I could if I had to buy all the knives myself. I only wish I could spread the knife love even further.
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I put all of the remaining Neverending GAW cull knives into a bag along with the various knives I had accumulated that I didn't care to keep or host a specific GAW on the Porch, and whenever I was working with a new tech who didn't have a decent pocketknife, I would let them pick one out of the bag. After years of giving away the knives, I had finally got to the point that my only knife in the bag was a Sheffield steel handled SAK style knife with several blades that couldn't open, so I hopped back into the Neverending GAW to snag some culls for the bag. In round #115 RLB0414 RLB0414 saw me say that I was down to my last field tech knife and he sent me a box of (frankly quite nice) knives to restock the bag:

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So I am currently OK for a while, but it is always nice to stock up the bag. Those newest additions are really all very solid good quality knives, especially the Craftsman stockmen. I had known that Craftsman tools used to be a very nice brand back in the day, but I hadn't realized they had pocketknives too, much less just what excellent quality those knives were. The black handled Craftsman with the eagle shield was the first one of that batch to be picked by a tech.
 
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I wonder how the round numbering will work with multiple boxes. My hope would be that the winners choose one box to be the ongoing Mr. Knife's Neverending GAW box, and the other is either given a different name or disposed of differently.

But obviously, I am not any kind of authority here. I just like clarity of naming conventions.
 
abbydaddy said:
I wonder how the round numbering will work with multiple boxes. My hope would be that the winners choose one box to be the ongoing Mr. Knife's Neverending GAW box, and the other is either given a different name or disposed of differently.

But obviously, I am not any kind of authority here. I just like clarity of naming conventions.
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I don't know either.
Maybe just Round 118 -A & 118-B...etc , or round 118 box 1 & round 118 box 2...etc ?

In hindsight I should have maybe put all the best stuff in 1 box then for box #2 each winner gets to just pick say 2 knives and send it along until everything was taken, but I wouldn't have known how to fairly judge what should be relegated to the "lesser" knives box.
 
Sorry for the delay its been a very difficult few weeks. I lost my best friend just before this round ended and its been hard to focus on much of anything. However the box is safe and i am slowly looking things over with my son and making selections. I will try to get the next round going this weekend. Hug your friends
 
seas165 said:
Sorry for the delay its been a very difficult few weeks. I lost my best friend just before this round ended and its been hard to focus on much of anything. However the box is safe and i am slowly looking things over with my son and making selections. I will try to get the next round going this weekend. Hug your friends
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Sorry for your loss, take your time and focus on what’s important.
 
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