Winner Picked -- Who Wants My Garbage?

[silenthunterstudios]

Not an entry, but a great gesture on your part. Watch out, they are addictive.

 

[Cory Hess]

Beautiful knife. Is that a Winchester?

 

[sheepdog229]

I have been collecting modern knives for years but I don't own any traditional knives . I recently decided to get my first traditional and don't know where to start. Thanks for the chance!

 

[iwouldhurtafly]

Other than the inconvenience of having to be careful when closing the main the knife is in great condition. I was fooled into thinking that it was untouched. Here's a picture:


This second one is intentionally terrible (the first one was unintentionally terrible). I used the flash to expose where the kick had been filed and the nick in the blade. You can see how the flash reflects off of those two spots.

Dont know if I am in or not LOL but I just wanted to let you know I wouldn't doubt her if she said it was untouched. I have seen a couple different examples from Case where the Kick was ground out from the factory looking very similar to this. I am sure that when they are doing their quality checks if blade tip is sticking up a tad bit they will just grind on the kick to get it to sit down. This one was probably done just a bit too aggressively. For example my Yeller Sodbuster's kick was pretty mangled albeit functional.

 

[Cory Hess]

I just wanted to let you know I wouldn't doubt her if she said it was untouched.

She just said it was new in the box. I didn't mean that she had fooled me. The knife fooled me. Other than the kick it doesn't look like it's even been handled. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the kick was ground down at the factory. I briefly considered contacting Case about it, but figured that if anything they'd just want to replace it. It's a very cool knife, especially considering it's 29 years old. I would think somebody here would appreciate it more than a new one. Either way, I'm sure that a couple sharpenings would fix the problem anyways. It doesn't appear to be hitting by much.

 

[iwouldhurtafly]

She just said it was new in the box. I didn't mean that she had fooled me. The knife fooled me. Other than the kick it doesn't look like it's even been handled. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the kick was ground down at the factory. I briefly considered contacting Case about it, but figured that if anything they'd just want to replace it. It's a very cool knife, especially considering it's 29 years old. I would think somebody here would appreciate it more than a new one. Either way, I'm sure that a couple sharpenings would fix the problem anyways. It doesn't appear to be hitting by much.

Gotcha gotcha! Just passing along a bit of info, and you're right. A couple sharpenings would probably remedy the problem. The winner could also just slide a little sliver of paper under the kick to help too. Either way very generous of you.

 

[glassjaw]

Don't worry too much about my threats, you'll be included either way. How cool would it be for somebody that has no knife to photograph to come here to try to figure out what knife to buy as their first and win this one? Then, ideally, we'd never see them again because they'd conclude that this is the perfect knife for them and they have no reason to ever frequent a knife forum again.

That would be a pretty perfect. But that person would be missing out on so many great knives!

Here was this mornings coffee with the tinker. It was just me and my 4 month old waiting for my wife and 4 year old to wake [/URL

 

[Cory Hess]

Here was this mornings coffee with the tinker. It was just me and my 4 month old waiting for my wife and 4 year old to wake

I love those times where you get to have them one on one. Do you always match your knife to which coffee mug you're using? I really hope so, because that's just another level of cool.

 

[mrapino]

I'm in! I decided to show 3 knives ... all Case. The red one in the back is a Christmas knife that I received on Christmas ... it has to be 5 years ago. That was my very first Case knife. My father started me on a Case collection, and he gets me a Case knife for my birthday, and Christmas every year.

I am just now really starting to appreciate the collection, and learn more about traditional folders in general. I have always loved knives, but I have never immersed myself in the culture.

Today is my very first day as a member of this forum. I am looking forward to learning and sharing as I grow!

 

[bleedingfinger]

im in thanks!!

 

[Cory Hess]

I am just now really starting to appreciate the collection, and learn more about traditional folders in general. I have always loved knives, but I have never immersed myself in the culture.

Today is my very first day as a member of this forum. I am looking forward to learning and sharing as I grow!

Welcome to the forums and thank you for sharing a picture of your budding collection. I am honored that you chose my thread as your first to post in. You're off on the right foot. You couldn't pick a better group of people to learn about traditional knives from.

 

[glassjaw]

I love those times where you get to have them one on one. Do you always match your knife to which coffee mug you're using? I really hope so, because that's just another level of cool.

Oh I should do that! Those just happen to be my favorites. The cup from my mom, the knife from my dad. My collection is dismal at best on the knife front. Still kind of new to it. And my wife is still in school so living off of my income alone doesn't let me buy what i want. Just what we need. So saving up for them takes a while. But it gives me a lot of time to figure out what I really want.

 

[5K Qs]

I am just now really starting to appreciate the collection, and learn more about traditional folders in general. I have always loved knives, but I have never immersed myself in the culture.

Today is my very first day as a member of this forum. I am looking forward to learning and sharing as I grow!

First, welcome to the forums, mrapino! I'm a relatively new member, too, but I've been lurking and learning here for about 8 months. The traditionals subforum seems to me to be an incredible place!

Second, I'm in for a shot at the peanut. Thanks for the chance, Cory; I'm a firm believer in trash-to-treasure!

Third, you asked for a picture, and you may regret that you didn't specify criteria for the quality of photos. Here's a really bad photo taken by the camera built into my MacBook. It's the first knife I ever owned, a Colonial Forest-Master I got about 1960 when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I carried it every day and everywhere until I went off to college. Then I almost never carried a knife for the next 45 years, although the scout knife was in my desk drawer through all that time. This past January, I came home from work one day and found a grungy old Imperial peanut at my place at the kitchen table. My wife had apparently received it from her dad sometime in the 1970s after he had carried it for many years, and she found it in a storage box. So I spent a very enjoyable Saturday afternoon cleaning it up and trying to sharpen it. Somehow that rekindled my interest in knives, and I told myself that I was going to start carrying a knife every day again, like when I was a kid, and start trying to find old knives to "rescue". While trying to do a little background research on pocket knives, I eventually ran across BladeForums and almost immediately adopted the site as my go-to knife reference.

-GT

 

[Cory Hess]

a Colonial Forest-Master I got about 1960 when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I carried it every day and everywhere until I went off to college. Then I almost never carried a knife for the next 45 years, although the scout knife was in my desk drawer through all that time. This past January, I came home from work one day and found a grungy old Imperial peanut at my place at the kitchen table. My wife had apparently received it from her dad sometime in the 1970s after he had carried it for many years, and she found it in a storage box. So I spent a very enjoyable Saturday afternoon cleaning it up and trying to sharpen it. Somehow that rekindled my interest in knives, and I told myself that I was going to start carrying a knife every day again, like when I was a kid, and start trying to find old knives to "rescue".

Awesome knife. My daughter is a Brownie, and my son is chomping at the bit to get into the Cub Scouts next year. I have been hunting down official scout knives for them. I love that you've had that one for so long. Fantastic.

Isn't it funny how all it takes is a little spark to ignite that flame. Your wife is going to be kicking herself for leaving that knife out for you.

 

[VictorLouis]

I'd love to own that peanut. To this point, I thought you had to pay premium for a Carhartt logo to get the satin finished
blades. Some refer to them 'as-ground'. I've never cared for the high-poligh bling on blades, but bolsters I can live with.
Satin blades, and subdued bolsters, both, on this old Buck.

 

[C Ben Susrool]

Don't worry too much about my threats, you'll be included either way. How cool would it be for somebody that has no knife to photograph to come here to try to figure out what knife to buy as their first and win this one? Then, ideally, we'd never see them again because they'd conclude that this is the perfect knife for them and they have no reason to ever frequent a knife forum again.

I think that is what happened as a result of my GAW.



A pretty dull photo of my Keith Johnson! Also attached is pic of my Menefee, Howser, and Polk knives.

Oh, I am in, Thanks.

 

[5K Qs]

Awesome knife. My daughter is a Brownie, and my son is chomping at the bit to get into the Cub Scouts next year. I have been hunting down official scout knives for them. I love that you've had that one for so long. Fantastic.

Isn't it funny how all it takes is a little spark to ignite that flame. Your wife is going to be kicking herself for leaving that knife out for you.

You're so right about my wife She just rolls her eyes when I say something like, "Hey, you know what I learned on BladeForums today?" But she really doesn't complain too much because I'm committed to keeping the budget for "my new hobby" under $20/month.

My friends and I always referred to a knife like mine when I was a kid as a scout knife, but none of us were actually in Boy Scouts. I grew up on a Michigan dairy farm, and the knife was a tool I used every day: cutting twine from bales of hay and straw, opening bags of feed, whittling out little shims of one kind or another, trimming split ends off milking machine hoses, cutting balls of dried manure from the end of cow's tails so they didn't whack you in the face with them, opening oil cans, punching new holes in various belts and straps, cutting up old inner tubes to make "bullets" for our rubber band guns, cutting and sharpening wiener sticks and apple slingers, and on and on. I apparently also occasionally abused the knife, because one of the back springs (on the cap lifter and can opener) is "warped" away from the center liner - about 1 mm gap at its widest point in the center. I probably am guilty of some youthful indiscretion like trying to use the bottle opener to pull a bent, rusty nail out of a fencepost or something. Kind of cool how a little old less-than-4-inch tool can conjure up lots of memories from quite a while ago!

 

[Fanglekai]

I'm in. Thanks for the chance!

This GEC #85 SFO is one of my favorites. It's sleek, beautiful and slices well.

 

[Cory Hess]

A pretty dull photo of my Keith Johnson! Also attached is pic of my Menefee, Howser, and Polk knives.

All beautiful knives. I'd like to hear more about that Polk. It looks like a trapper with a wharnie maybe? I love the shape of that thing closed.

 

[C Ben Susrool]

Arkansas knifemaker Cliff Polk. His own style heavily influence by his mentor Arvil Toon, with whom he worked early in his career. Knife is dated 1990, a grail of mine I only acquired in the last couple of years. File worked liners by Polk, beautiful stag, 440c blades. Don't know if he still makes knives, it has been a few years since I talked to him.