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Well folks, it's that time of year again - and what a year it has been! 
- Time to select your Traditional Knife of the Year 
The Old Salts will be familiar with the rules of this thread, newcomers should read them carefully 
Quoting from previous threads (except for updating the year):
In 2020, if you’re lucky, you may have bought, found, or been given, an EXCEPTIONAL knife. Maybe it was a knife you didn’t think was going to be that special, but it has absolutely CHARMED you. Perhaps it was an inexpensive knife, which you picked up somewhere, slipped in your pocket, and then found you couldn’t stop carrying it. It must be a knife you have gotten since the start of the year. If you’ve come across a knife like that, perhaps you’d like to nominate it as YOUR knife of the year.
Now, it could be that you’ve been perfectly happy carrying the knife you bought or were given many years ago, a knife which has served you so well, why would you want to change? If that’s the case, good luck to you my friend, but that knife doesn’t qualify.
It could be that you’ve had lots of knives this year, and liked many of them, but none of them really stood out. Don’t worry, maybe something will come along next year, which will absolutely knock your socks off. You can tell us about that knife next year.
Also, and we always get a couple of these, you may be one of those indecisive folks who just can’t make your mind up. Maybe you have two, or three, or four knives you really like, and can’t decide which you like the best. If that applies to you, feel free to start another thread, because if ONE of those knives doesn’t stand out, it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for this one. By all means mention a number of knives, but in the end, YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE. If you can’t…on yer bike!
It gets worse, there’s no prize* for this, and there’s no winner!
We’re just talking knives, and telling each other which single knife has made all the difference to us this year
So, we're not looking for the fanciest custom you picked up this year, we're looking for a knife that you've CARRIED, that has absolutely hogged your pocket in a way which may have taken you by surprise. Don't worry if you can't choose one, you're not being asked to choose your favourite child, just sit back and read the posts, and maybe you'll find a knife to nominate next year. I'm going to make a slight change this year (2019), you may nominate a knife you received last Christmas, (and did not carry before Christmas Day), so long as it fulfills all the other criteria.
Hopefully everyone gets the idea, not the fanciest or most expensive knife you've acquired this year (or since last Christmas), but one which is really special to you I signed off my post last year by hoping 2020 would be kind to us all 
That really hasn't been the case has it, what a stinker?! 
I think we all deserve a medal for having gotten through it, but while I don't have any medals to give out, I do have a couple of mementos, so as per the asterisk above, there are actually a couple of prizes this year. Even if you don't have a knife to nominate, you can still enter, as can everyone else who follows the rules (just say you're in for the giveaway). Exceptional posts will get a second shot. The prizes are these wee patches, made up by some funny chaps in Finland. They're Velcro-backed, and well-made, and will hopefully raise a smile in these troubled times This thread will be open until the 2nd January 2020, and I'll draw a couple of names by random then.
Thank you to everyone who joins in the fun, and thanks to you all for helping to keep me more or less sane in a crazy year in a mad, mad world Hoping we have better and brighter days ahead in 2021 And remember, in the words of the late Sean Connery:
All the best
Jack
Some links to past Traditional Knife of the Year threads:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-traditional-knife-of-2019.1701068/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-2018-traditional-knife-of-the-year.1627912/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-traditional-knife-of-2017.1536817/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-traditional-knife-of-2016.1452776/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-knife-of-2015.1352217/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-knife-of-2014.1248497/
- Time to select your Traditional Knife of the Year The Old Salts will be familiar with the rules of this thread, newcomers should read them carefully Quoting from previous threads (except for updating the year):
In 2020, if you’re lucky, you may have bought, found, or been given, an EXCEPTIONAL knife. Maybe it was a knife you didn’t think was going to be that special, but it has absolutely CHARMED you. Perhaps it was an inexpensive knife, which you picked up somewhere, slipped in your pocket, and then found you couldn’t stop carrying it. It must be a knife you have gotten since the start of the year. If you’ve come across a knife like that, perhaps you’d like to nominate it as YOUR knife of the year.
Now, it could be that you’ve been perfectly happy carrying the knife you bought or were given many years ago, a knife which has served you so well, why would you want to change? If that’s the case, good luck to you my friend, but that knife doesn’t qualify.
It could be that you’ve had lots of knives this year, and liked many of them, but none of them really stood out. Don’t worry, maybe something will come along next year, which will absolutely knock your socks off. You can tell us about that knife next year.
Also, and we always get a couple of these, you may be one of those indecisive folks who just can’t make your mind up. Maybe you have two, or three, or four knives you really like, and can’t decide which you like the best. If that applies to you, feel free to start another thread, because if ONE of those knives doesn’t stand out, it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for this one. By all means mention a number of knives, but in the end, YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE. If you can’t…on yer bike!
It gets worse, there’s no prize* for this, and there’s no winner!
We’re just talking knives, and telling each other which single knife has made all the difference to us this year So, we're not looking for the fanciest custom you picked up this year, we're looking for a knife that you've CARRIED, that has absolutely hogged your pocket in a way which may have taken you by surprise. Don't worry if you can't choose one, you're not being asked to choose your favourite child, just sit back and read the posts, and maybe you'll find a knife to nominate next year. I'm going to make a slight change this year (2019), you may nominate a knife you received last Christmas, (and did not carry before Christmas Day), so long as it fulfills all the other criteria.
Hopefully everyone gets the idea, not the fanciest or most expensive knife you've acquired this year (or since last Christmas), but one which is really special to you
I signed off my post last year by hoping 2020 would be kind to us all That really hasn't been the case has it, what a stinker?! I think we all deserve a medal for having gotten through it, but while I don't have any medals to give out, I do have a couple of mementos, so as per the asterisk above, there are actually a couple of prizes this year. Even if you don't have a knife to nominate, you can still enter, as can everyone else who follows the rules (just say you're in for the giveaway). Exceptional posts will get a second shot. The prizes are these wee patches, made up by some funny chaps in Finland. They're Velcro-backed, and well-made, and will hopefully raise a smile in these troubled times This thread will be open until the 2nd January 2020, and I'll draw a couple of names by random then.
Thank you to everyone who joins in the fun, and thanks to you all for helping to keep me more or less sane in a crazy year in a mad, mad world
Hoping we have better and brighter days ahead in 2021 And remember, in the words of the late Sean Connery:
All the best
Jack
Some links to past Traditional Knife of the Year threads:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-traditional-knife-of-2019.1701068/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-2018-traditional-knife-of-the-year.1627912/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/your-traditional-knife-of-2017.1536817/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-traditional-knife-of-2016.1452776/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-knife-of-2015.1352217/
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-knife-of-2014.1248497/
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But I'm looking forward to seeing yours 
