Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

Will Power said:
Midsummer is a big holiday here still-despite the govt. despicably moving it from the actual day to a Friday some years ago in their ceaseless appeasement of corporate dictates..Thursday I receive a customs notification only I hadn't ordered anything, didn't recognize the sender's name and it was from the US. Went online to clear the parcel and waited with some anxiety over the week-end holiday. Monday afternoon package comes through the door (which is unusual these days, you normally have to collect from the supermarket or from a locker. )

Inside is an amusing card and a Redbone CASE Stockman 087 pattern with the unusual Clip, Spey, Pen arrangement. I was shocked yet delighted and then spent some time sharpening it and rubbing it down as I do with all new 'oldies'- beautiful knife and a real piece of altruism too. The thoughtful presence behind this was ephsea ephsea and I'm really grateful to him for his gesture :cool: It is said that things go in threes, well Monday was the Red Letter Day and not just Redbone, soon after a PM alerted me that another Forumite had been able to secure me a knife I can't get in the EU, bit later another PM offered me a knife so I could complete a trade I'd been working on.

Don't know what I've done to deserve all this...but I'm revelling in it let me tell you :D

The photo is poor but this small Stockman and the thought behind it is rich.
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What a great prize! Beautiful knife. Thanks for sharing Will and well played ephsea ephsea 👊🏼
 
A couple more for the Case collection:

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Today I got my Mazer Walkabout in S90V and blue jeans linen micarta, and GEC Urban Jack in green jigged bone. This is my 3rd Mazer, and second Walkabout. The first in AEB-L which I've carried and used, and had to put to the Spyderco sharpmaker once; and now the same model in S90V for a longer lasting edge.

My first Urban Jack in green jigged bone was a safe queen, then I gave my second one to my new son-in-law as an engagement present, so now I have a user. Thanks JasonInVa JasonInVa !

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Just got this off the 'bay.
My understanding (and I hope to be corrected if wrong) is that the Boker USAs, when owned by J. Wiss (from 1973(?) into 1977) were manufactured on Market St. in Newark, NJ. Newark is a city that has great significance in my life, so I thought it would be supercool for my collection to include a Newark-made knife.

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Couple new knives for me this past week.

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I also got this one in a couple weeks ago when we were in St. Louis. I had the seller send it to my brother’s place, since I knew we’d be there all week and didn’t want it sitting with my held mail.

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As said in previous posts, I’ve found the traditional knives crowd to be very welcoming, helpful, and friendly. I’ve acquired a few GECs from the exchange here at what I consider to be very fair prices, in part, from what I could see, to aid in getting me going on carrying a GEC.
Anyways, part of the fun in all this is sharing with others, so in my recent travels back to visit family, I wound up giving one of my few knives to a very dear friend. Him and I haven’t lived close to one another in a long time, but when we were in college both bonded over hunting and the outdoors, but also traditional pocket knives. Needless to say he loved it, and I believe will carry it often.
The two GECs I have remaining I’ve been carrying daily, in a random rotation along with a couple of new case knives.
Overall, my thoughts on GECs has been amazement, and almost a disappointment in that I’ve just now really discovered them. I just think it’s so darn cool knives like this are being made.
The Spey blade has really won me over. Useful for about any task I could think of, and it just looks good.
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315 said:
I don’t know how I landed this one, but I am extremely happy with it. It has to be the most exquisitely built knife I have purchased to date. And it goes well with the new slip that I just picked up from EEEICE EEEICE


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I'm always a sucker for a worm groove.

When I was a kid I had an old traditional with extremely organic looking worm grooves and jigging (I actually assumed it was natural until I started hanging out on the porch). I've often wished that I hadn't lost that knife decades ago so that I could figure out what exactly it actually was. I used to spend a ridiculous amount of time tracing the grooves as a kid.

GEC jigging and worm grooves are pretty much always more precise and scultpted looking than I really prefer, but it doesn't change the fact that I get a little thrill every time I see a worm groove.
 
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btb01 said:
Couple new knives for me this past week.

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I also got this one in a couple weeks ago when we were in St. Louis. I had the seller send it to my brother’s place, since I knew we’d be there all week and didn’t want it sitting with my held mail.

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All nice one's Barrett. The opinel is an interesting one to see.😍
 
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