TRADITIONAL KNIFE GIVEAWAY - WILL THIS BE ANOTHER EPIC?? WINNERS CHOSEN

[Campbellclanman]

FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS- SEE POST 129
Hey everyone here in Traditonals.....

PHOTO COMPETITION THREAD: The theme? Traditonal Knife Photo - perhaps even with your lovely animal friend

The second mystery Knife is for Our friends who include your animal friend in a awesome outdoor setting- try to take new shots if possible - unless your friend isnt with us any more.

Conditions:, you must have at least 25 posts here in Traditionals.

I will let this run for a short while as we dont want to hold up the works- Frank, Gary ..please let me know if things go on or something doesnt fit right.

Well its been quite some time since I have put up an actual Give-away Thread, we - I say we because my good friends have come in and joined forces at times on a few occasions, a couple of times to help our good mate Bob out, also we have had to join forces in another giveaway to combat another Give-away Thread fella who was making all kinds of threats and Chief came in to sort him out lol - that was a lot of fun and a lot af Banter going to & fro , so...
I am going to put up a couple of Knives- the first one that was gifted to me - actually by the great guy who had to be put in place when he was mis-behaving, I feel really guilty that I dont use such a beautiful Knife.


Animal -& Outdoor shot ? your just going to have to wait and see what that knife is- in fact you wont know until you unwrap it

I am inviting my friends to contact me through pm - please not in this Thread - so we can put up a few knives - to give our Traditional Friends incentive to get out there and take some snaps, I will edit this first post - and ask my-co founding Trad mates to write a paragraph and I will copy and paste it in section here in post #1 with their chosen knife.



My first Knife is a Nice Red Bone Case Canoe- drop dead mint..( Mark side is very dark- almost brown ), there's oil on the Blades - please forgive bad pics...

Just had Jeff contact me- we all know BLACK MAMBA...A long time respected Traditional...he has very generously put up a Gorgeous Queen here is Jeff's Photo and Description- Jeff Thank you, this is extremely generous of you my friend...
"It's a Queen 4" Bird's Eye Maple #9 Stockman in D2, NIB. Here's a pic of both sides".

Another chap we know well has come in- my friend Mr. Paul Hilborn, Paul has put up this awesome Boker, Paul matey- many thanks for your generosity my friend, thats fantastic of you guys to come in like this! Here's Pauls Photo's and description....
"A beautiful Red Bone Boker One Arm Jack knife with Pen Blade. Nice tight knife with no play in blades. 3 1/8 closed. If box is found it will be shipped to the winner. If unable to locate knife will ship solo".

We just had another Great guy come in and put forward a real nice Knife- Our Mate Ron- you know him as Half Stop! Ron my friend- Thank you So much for this matey- thats fantastically generous of you Buddy Thank you!
Here is Ron's description and photo folks...
"This is a 6292 Case 1998 Large Texas Jack. Chestnut Jigged Bone and CV steel. It may have a few pepper spots, but never sharpened and I don’t have a box so let’s just call it excellent condition. It is a solid great looking Jack Knife. I will ship it in a black Velcro Case Pocket slip"

I had another great Traditionalist ask if he could add another Knife to the Give-away- Emspop ( Clay ) - Thank you so much for your generosity kind Sir- Clay is offering a real nice Knife, here is Clays Description and photos......
This is a mid-late 70’s Camillus made Buck 303. To the best of my knowledge it’s never been carried. Factory edge on the blades and it’s box and paperwork. It’s had a mineral oil bath and was wiped down. It’s as close to NIB as you are likely to find...ENJOY!

Well- if you check Post # 58 Jake has come in and offered a stunning 66 Calf Roper to the stash of Knives we have collectively now, Jake THANK YOU my friend for coming in here with this great show of generosity.......
Duncan, Would you please add this knife to the giveaway?

Heres your chance everyone- Knives and Pets- Remember- you dont have to include a pet - but if you do- you get into another draw- the draws also depend on the generous people who have donated a knife to this give-away- they will each judge a section and choose a winner through their own chosen methods...so we have a great stash of knives now up for grabs- dont forget I am also adding a mystery Knife to the Pet/ animal section as well!
Lets Go!!!!!!

OK.....Mr. Paul Hilborn contacted me and asked, if I could also add this knife in- on top of that beautiful Boker - Case CV- Beautiful Bone Trapper- wow! Thank you Paul - this is so generous of you my friend....
"Duncan, forgot to mention, lets add this knife to the give away. A CV Case mini trapper in beautiful Chestnut Bone. Box included if I can find it."

 

[onojoe]

I must be in the minority, because I don't have an animal friend. Sounds like a fun thread, but I wont be able to compete.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Onojoe
You got me thinking - I'm going to Edit the OP so it will be fairer my friend.

Op edited

 

[paulhilborn]

I have to post here my friend. This is current but not new. This is Mocha at her finest. Sending you a pm after this post Duncan...by the way, this is NOT an entry but a THANK YOU as your always so generous with your Give Aways

 

[SVTFreak]

Not an entry but thanks for the chance!

I’m allergic to cats and dogs lol. I keep swearing I’m gonna build me a chicken coop but other projects keep popping up.

 

[meako]

My beautiful pythons Boris and Oz not available to me right now for photogs.
So I will sadly forego my chance.
I also feel that Duncan needs time to recover from the crushing defeat of the All Blacks by the Wallabies in the final test match of the Bledisloe. Ok Ok yer won the cup but Australia needed that win.
Cheers.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Folks- Thank you for your posts...remember - theres two sections..

1, Outdoor photos of a Traditional Knife

2, Outdoor photo's of the knife and your mate!

Meako my friend... Oh man...whats up with that? Aussies beating the All Blacks- actually to be honest- the All Blacks need to loose - it gets tiresome to see them win all the time and I would rather anyday the Aussie boys give us a reminder that we need to keep on our toes- especially when the Aussies are down because they are at their most dangerous when they are at that position!

The All Blacks need to be alert- there was a time when playing for instance Argentina - that we would wipe them off the Board- but now every team is getting extremely competitive- what with importing players etc...so its good to close the gap now to make it a game of real interest!
In saying all that - we also have to give you guys a win now and then to stop you guys dragging the bottom lip- oh Lord we never hear the end of it- so - its all in the game plan my friend

try to get a photo Meako- you pets are probably the most interesting that we see here - Pythons 'n all!

 

[Ernie1980]

Here is one of our cats, Frisky. Whenever I am working in my shop he and our other cat will join me. I came back from a break one day and Frisky had decided to make a bed out of one of my storage boxes.

Edit to add- I know there is not a knife in the photo but I guarantee there are several in various stages of completion just out of frame!

 

[Rookie82]

I usually pass on GAW's but I'll try my hand at this one. My only "pets" are my flock of chickens, and they don't sit still very long to snap a photo with a knife. Here is a nice shot I took recently on a walk through the woods. Thanks for the opportunity!

 

[joeradza]

I'm not positive where these two photos count but I'm always glad to show 'da boyz'. Bosco and Oreo were my two Newfoundlands. Both are gone in the last year. Finest animals I've ever been around. The second photo is of a new Northwoods Little Bay on an iPad display of them. I guess to show that life goes on.

 

[abcdef]

Nice gaw.

 

[TheFactor]

My little Princess Mercedes Striking a pose and let me tell you it wasn't easy lol . Guess she wasn't feeling photogenic this morning but she was a trooper when I told her it was for a good cause

 

[r redden]

I would love to participate in both parts of your GAW. First pictures are of Nyla we just got her yesterday she's a 9 week old mixed breed and sweet as can be. She is very hard to photograph outside as she's running everywhere so I'm posting 4 pictures and one is inside hope you don't mind.

 

[gonebad395]

Well here are my pets

And my lambsfoot

 

[r redden]

For my entry of traditional knife outdoors here's some of my favorite GEC's out side on my wife's deer. Thanks Campbellclanman.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Great idea for a giveaway, how can me and buttercup not participate.
I can never get her to sit still for photos, so I wasn't planning on posting any picture of her, but then this happened.
Here's my first attempt at the knife pic I was going to post.

Here's the pic I was trying to take.

Lastly here's my favorite pic of buttercup and one of the few decent ones I've been able to take.


I don't expect to win this because my photography skills aren't on the same level as others here, but it's a pretty nice day out today and great for hanging out in the yard with my best friend, so we're happy.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Theres some neat shots coming in of some great Knives and even better some of your Buddies - thank you so far, and so far I have a couple of lads coming in with Knives- I am just waiting for their input or paragraph to add and we will post them, also another has expressed interest in donating- Awesome Stuff!

Dont worry too much about Photography Skills- as there will be a section as to there is an overall " throw them in the hat " chance, also probably a section for the real awesome shot - and you dont have to be a pro to get that- most times it's getting out there- looking and taking a chance shot!

Keep them coming everyone and thank you so far!

 

[Will Power]

Great stuff Duncan, mate! It could be epic but with you in the chair it's already become the stuff of legend

I'd like to have a shot but I can't promise anything too recent, you see we're rapidly heading for winter here in the Arctic and the weather's foul and getting darker by the day. By December, we barely have 4 or 5 hours of twilight per day, not ideal conditions for getting outside for pix

My first is a picture of some 'mates' who regularly visit the garden of my place in the city, a couple of rather tatty Hares (they were moulting) having a wash&brush up. We get a lot of Hares in city centres lately and I put out hay, carrots&rabbit pellets for them in January when the temps can reach -32 C. Also Red Squirrels visit a lot and Hedgehogs in summer. I've seen a Fox and cubs not too far away either and they're turning urban too (rich pickings from fast food litter)

My cat Pipp not long after she turned up as a stray at the country place after being abandoned as a summer cat. The cruelty of humans...no knife visible here but there's a nice Stag 73 liner lock in that knee pocket of my trousers.

Knife content: an outdoors shot of the impressive 2016 Forum Knife

More knife content and animal magic. Not exactly outdoors, but outdoorsy. I was trying to set up a shot of this year's Forum Knife on an old bird book when Pipp walked in on it!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Awesome Will- Just awesome, my friend... maybe this is wrong to Judge people - but I do so on how they treat an Animal- You my friend are the Legend- what wonderful , kind reading throughout your post towards animals!
Great Shots! Thank you so much.

 

[rockman0]

I think he likes the beer more than the knife, Flavius is his name and the next picture is of him and his litter mate William. They each tip the scale around 15 lbs so on the bigger side for Yorkies.