What was your favorite CRK purchase in 2012?

[lisantica]

2012 was a great year for obtaining CRKs.
I love to see the acquisitions, thanks all for contributing.

 

[hoodep]

Too many to choose from...I'm going to have to go with the mammoth bark annual and special box elder Mnandi

 

[lisantica]

Two more beauties there, thanks for posting hoodep!

 

[NYCMD]

This is a great thread!
Wonderful to see the favored CRKs purchased by fellow members.
Lisa thanks for starting this one up, cool idea

J

 

[tomhalv]

This annual mammoth bark is my favorite for 2012

 

[MVG]

That's a true beauty Tom!

 

[Sonnydaze]

Lisa, that River of Fire is so beautiful. Can't hardly believe it.

 

[Mad_Maxx]

I see some AWESOME scores for this year, Chris must be proud!
for me it's these 2 (out of 7 new CRKs this year of which I still have 6)

November trade
Small 21 S35VN Micarta

the second, a new entry (10 days) is fighting with the above to be first, love and carry both
Small 21 Gabon Ebony S35VN

 

[BlackEnd]

Some beauties here friends. 2012 was pretty nice to me. These are my favs for this year tho.

 

[lisantica]

Just woke up to find lots of additions to the thread. :thumbup: Thank you all for posting.

 

[fespo276]

I keep upgrading to nicer and nicer users. I think this is a sweet spot for me.

 

[lisantica]

Beauty there fespo276!

 

[franzdom]

I must be reading this wrong. There's no flippin' way you've only started collecting this year!

hehehe, I bought my very first one in September. I have sold 22 and have kept 9, I guess that means I bought 31 in four months

 

[NYCMD]

I've acquired two CRKs this year (both in the past 4 days), but only have one on hand at present.
My Mammoth Bark Damascus blade Mnandi is special to me as it is my first.

Cheers
J

 

[lisantica]

Keep that one! It's a beauty!

 

[franzdom]

Wow that is a beauty for sure!

 

[NYCMD]

Thanks Lisa and Franzdom,

I'm blown away by how amazing this Mnandi is.
Feels great in the hand, all of these colors really pop on the inlay and the blade is gorgeous.
I understand the drive to acquire a number of these now at a different level.

This feels like a long term keeper to me, kind of thing I'd hand down to my son

Cheers
J

 

[1SHOT1KILL]

All of mine...from 2012. I have a couple of questions as well. How rare/hard to obtain are the LDC Sebenzas and the 9/11/01 Lg Sebenzas? Where should I start looking? It looks like Dinokay is on his way towards picking up all of the LDCs...hey man...leave some for the rest of us

 

[franzdom]

Tom, this is completely off the chain!!!

Definitely one of my all time favorite knives.

This annual mammoth bark is my favorite for 2012

 

[Lone_Wolfe]

My true fave of all so far was bought last year, so it doesn't count. My fave for this year may well be one that's still inbound to me... Rare damascus and all.......