lambertiana
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It's hard to believe that today marks 20 years on Bladeforums. When I heard about BF I signed up and at that time there were a lot of folks that I had known from rec.knives. BF has grown a lot since then, and people have come and gone over the years. Since I feel most at home here on the porch, I will do a giveaway of traditional knives here.
First, some background to this giveaway. As many of you know, I love spending time in the Sierra. One of the things that make it special for me is that now that I spend a lot of time going off trail, I can find places with little or no human impact, and have those places to myself. I have to admit that I am not fond of large crowds; I grew up in a very small town and living in larger cities still gets to me. I need time to decompress away from traffic, work, and crowds. Hence one of the reasons I go off trail in the Sierra. For a place to qualify as a solitude-inducing location it needs to have no visible human impact. A few examples of places I have gone off trail where few or no other people go are these:
Now, for the giveaway rules. First, you need to be someone with at least 20 posts in the traditional forum, and not just a bunch of "I'm in" for other giveaways. Second, you can't just turn around and sell the prizes, but you can give them away if you decide that it wasn't for you after all, and third, I can ship the prizes to any location in the continental US. If you are overseas and have an address in CONUS that you can use, feel free to join in. If you are overseas and want to take a risk (I have had issues with shipping overseas, including the local PO telling me that they can't ship knives overseas) join in anyway and maybe you will get lucky. There will be three winners and they will choose from these knives (all are in used condition):
GEC 29 with GBM acrylic scales (comes with the original tube):
Buck 110 with ebony scales (comes with leather sheath):
Buck 501 with script stamp and burgundy micarta scales (1977-1981):
French Violin knife with kingwood scales (at 4.25" closed it makes a good picnic knife):
Now for the actual contest. First prize and first choice goes to the person who can identify the location where a picture was taken. This was a true solitude location, with zero evidence of human presence (and off trail, of course). Since my last giveaway was solved so easily by people identifying my favorite summits in the Sierra (most likely through image recognition software) I want this one to be a little harder. As far as I know, I (and the one person I was with at the time) am the only person to go to this location in recent history, so it will be harder to find pictures to match. The view is looking away from our campsite. First you will have to get an approximate location based on what is visible, but determining the location of the lake I was visiting will be more challenging. If this goes a week with no one guessing, I will start to offer clues. The winner will be the one who first tells me the location of the lake (it has no name, not even on the 7.5' quadrangle map, so a name is not necessary). Edit to add: the guess needs to be more than a generic mountain range or general area. You need to pinpoint the location. And it is in Sequoia National Park, which is the only hint that I will give right now.
Second and third picks will go to the people who can post their own pictures of places they have been that offer a real feeling of solitude with no evidence of human presence. It doesn't have to be in the mountains; I have been in places in the desert and on the high plains of western Nebraska and Kansas that also had a sense of real solitude. It doesn't even need to be a big landscape photo - look at what @Prester John posted in post 26, I like it. As long as there is no sign of human presence and I can imagine sitting there with the only sounds being the stream, a breeze in the trees, and some birds, with no sound from roads because it is far enough from a road, it works. The winners will be the ones who post pictures of places that I really want to visit the most.
Please note that even if you are not making a guess regarding the location of the mystery spot, you can still enter with a picture. If no one guesses my spot, all three winners will be taken from those who submit a picture. This contest will go for one week (until 6PM on July 13) unless I have to extend it because no one has guessed the location for the first prize. And what is this location, you ask? Here it is, and good luck!
First, some background to this giveaway. As many of you know, I love spending time in the Sierra. One of the things that make it special for me is that now that I spend a lot of time going off trail, I can find places with little or no human impact, and have those places to myself. I have to admit that I am not fond of large crowds; I grew up in a very small town and living in larger cities still gets to me. I need time to decompress away from traffic, work, and crowds. Hence one of the reasons I go off trail in the Sierra. For a place to qualify as a solitude-inducing location it needs to have no visible human impact. A few examples of places I have gone off trail where few or no other people go are these:
Now, for the giveaway rules. First, you need to be someone with at least 20 posts in the traditional forum, and not just a bunch of "I'm in" for other giveaways. Second, you can't just turn around and sell the prizes, but you can give them away if you decide that it wasn't for you after all, and third, I can ship the prizes to any location in the continental US. If you are overseas and have an address in CONUS that you can use, feel free to join in. If you are overseas and want to take a risk (I have had issues with shipping overseas, including the local PO telling me that they can't ship knives overseas) join in anyway and maybe you will get lucky. There will be three winners and they will choose from these knives (all are in used condition):
GEC 29 with GBM acrylic scales (comes with the original tube):
Buck 110 with ebony scales (comes with leather sheath):
Buck 501 with script stamp and burgundy micarta scales (1977-1981):
French Violin knife with kingwood scales (at 4.25" closed it makes a good picnic knife):
Now for the actual contest. First prize and first choice goes to the person who can identify the location where a picture was taken. This was a true solitude location, with zero evidence of human presence (and off trail, of course). Since my last giveaway was solved so easily by people identifying my favorite summits in the Sierra (most likely through image recognition software) I want this one to be a little harder. As far as I know, I (and the one person I was with at the time) am the only person to go to this location in recent history, so it will be harder to find pictures to match. The view is looking away from our campsite. First you will have to get an approximate location based on what is visible, but determining the location of the lake I was visiting will be more challenging. If this goes a week with no one guessing, I will start to offer clues. The winner will be the one who first tells me the location of the lake (it has no name, not even on the 7.5' quadrangle map, so a name is not necessary). Edit to add: the guess needs to be more than a generic mountain range or general area. You need to pinpoint the location. And it is in Sequoia National Park, which is the only hint that I will give right now.
Second and third picks will go to the people who can post their own pictures of places they have been that offer a real feeling of solitude with no evidence of human presence. It doesn't have to be in the mountains; I have been in places in the desert and on the high plains of western Nebraska and Kansas that also had a sense of real solitude. It doesn't even need to be a big landscape photo - look at what @Prester John posted in post 26, I like it. As long as there is no sign of human presence and I can imagine sitting there with the only sounds being the stream, a breeze in the trees, and some birds, with no sound from roads because it is far enough from a road, it works. The winners will be the ones who post pictures of places that I really want to visit the most.
Please note that even if you are not making a guess regarding the location of the mystery spot, you can still enter with a picture. If no one guesses my spot, all three winners will be taken from those who submit a picture. This contest will go for one week (until 6PM on July 13) unless I have to extend it because no one has guessed the location for the first prize. And what is this location, you ask? Here it is, and good luck!
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Some great knives there. Not an entry from me, but I am really enjoying the photographs. It must be fantastic to get away from humanity in such breathtaking surroundings. You're a lucky man my friend 