Traditional Knives you really liked and gave as a gift

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A good friend of mine has a birthday today. As a gift I gave him my Enzo necker with birch scales. I really like the knife, but gave it anyway. He has back problems and I first used the knife to make him a walking stick, we were out on his and her wives cabin. What would be the point of giving second class items to someone special?

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Show the knives you really liked and gave to someone that matters to you.
 
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My introduction to 'real' pocket knives was a well loved Opinel No.8, which I traded from a friend at age 10 (I think I traded him a Chinese Winchester). That knife, to me, was the coolest ever. It was my first carbon blade, and the only one I could get sharp- and how sharp it was! I forgot to twist the lock ring one day, and sliced off a generous portion of my thumb when the knife folded. By that time, I had an SAK alox and a few other decent knives, so the Opie went in a droor. I rediscovered it maybe a year ago, and decided to carry it that night to the house of a friend who's big into bushcrafting, backpacking, etc. but only carries fixed blade knives. I showed him the Opie, and he was instantly smitten. I knew from the look on his face as he was coonfingering it that the knife just had to stay with him.

Anyway, sorry to ramble, here it is, pictured with my peanut, another favorite.
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Opinel will probably be the #2 most popular behind the SAK Classic.

Both of these I've gifted to many friends and family.

I've probably given away a dozen SAK Classics and most of not all of them were bought at yard sales for usually a buck a piece of less.
Every set of keys has an SAK Classic on it and it's what I gave my daughter when she got her licence.
 
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NorthWoods Madison Barlow, still have to ship it haha!! I'm going to try a clip point in ebony whenever I get the chance. :)
 
I generally try to give away knives I would like to receive myself if I was on the other end. I have also had others that gave me great knives that I really like, but can't say how they felt about them on their end of the deal.

I have given two Geber Silver Knights away. These knives are a favorite from weill over a decade ago. The recipients might recognize them from these fotos.

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A Case Texas jack went to Bavaria (maybe that's it...). It's still one of my favorite patterns and I went out and found a replacement for it soon after.

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There are some others, but I don't want to hog the thread.

Given to me by friends here:

I won the wharncliffe trapper in Jason Baker's give away and Wilgoy here gave me the matching Copperlock.

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Thejamppa sent me this Pukko:

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and these two:

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and this S&M Swaybelly trapper came from Duncan in NZ:

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There are others as well. This is a great forum with great knife people in it. I just try to pay it forward, but it is hard to keep up...

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Bought a RAT-1. Liked it very much. Bought 10 more... and gave three away to friends (they all needed a decent knife to carry, and I didn't really "need" a dozen RAT's, so what the heck, right?)
 
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I gave my brother my Dozier knives pro guides knife several years ago. He still uses it and brags about it in his deer camp.
 
Love them Case in the Winterbottom Bone, that's one of my favorite scales I still carry the Sowbelly I got from you Ed, it's my favorite single blade traditional. And I love the Silver Knights the pearl is gorgeous I have the same one. Not trying to hijack just a sick question Ed if ya don't mind, how does the quality of the Silver Knights compared between the first generation and the second with the two blades?
 
Let's limit our responses to Traditional knives, please. I've edited the title to help reinforce that request.
 
My AGR curved regular jack a wharnecliffe in jigged amber bone. I gave it to a friend LNIB back in February. The blade was perfection and the bone was a sight to behold. I'm missing it now.
 
Gave this Laquoile to a friend with similar interests. Still miss the knife and propably I will get another soon. Her husband received a RR Barlow.

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I've been lucky enough to have been gifted a number of very special knives by fellow forum members, knives they carried themselves and thought highly of. They mean a great deal to me because of that. Examples are the Bladeforums 2011 knife that Duncan gifted me, the knife he carried himself, and which was my first GEC, or the Kabar Peanut that Pete (Stich2442) sent me around the same time, a knife he'd carried and used, and posted about.

In terms of giving knives away, I've tried to do the same, and have gifted a number of knives I regard as being very special. Here's one I did a thread about (http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1057711-Passing-on-your-Precious), which I am glad to see now rests with one of our many great members :)

 
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