The 30 Day "Traditional" Challenge!

[SAK Guy]

Day 30
 
It's not a small tomato, it's a really big knife.

 

[SAK Guy]

This has been a fantastic challenge, even if it has cost me money.   I really don't normally get into MTO challenges as I'm easily bored and struggle to restrict myself, but not this time.  I've loved seeing all the sumptuous photos that have appeared every day and the wonderful subject matter they contain.

Here's my carry for today, my yellow Case medium Stockman CV.
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[Poncho65]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

[Gareth]

Very generous of you Dean, but how did you know I've been lusting after a Case Mini Trapper?

I'm most definitely in.

[Dean51]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

[kaput]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

Nice. Do you see they are not exactly the same however. The mini one looks great tho. The mini one looks like the other 30days

[Gareth]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

 

[derekmac]

This has been a fantastic thread & I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Best of all it didn't cost me too much.   
But
How bout a chance for something more than a merit bade. A little GAW.
It is open to any one who has participated in the challenge before this post even if you have not finished yet.
I'll assign a # based on the order of your entry. I'll use a random # generator to pick the winner. Winner will be picked Saturday morning.
It's nothing Fancy, it's a used Case mini trapper. Tang is marked 6207, I don't know what that means but that's what it says. A bit of traveling in a tackle box but very little use on the blades.
You have to enter so to enter just say I'm in & post a knife pic.
You must be 18, local laws apply yada yada.

She's a Beaut Dean!!

Please count me in, and thank you!!!   

[SAK Guy]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

 

 

[SAK Guy]

This has been a fantastic thread & I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Best of all it didn't cost me too much.   
But
How bout a chance for something more than a merit bade. A little GAW.
It is open to any one who has participated in the challenge before this post even if you have not finished yet.
I'll assign a # based on the order of your entry. I'll use a random # generator to pick the winner. Winner will be picked Saturday morning.
It's nothing Fancy, it's a used Case mini trapper. Tang is marked 6207, I don't know what that means but that's what it says. A bit of traveling in a tackle box but very little use on the blades.
You have to enter so to enter just say I'm in & post a knife pic.
You must be 18, local laws apply yada yada.

She's a Beaut Dean!!

Please count me in, and thank you!!!   

Nice combo D-Mac!!!!!! 

[SAK Guy]

Great give away!!!!!  I have a lot of trads so I'm out so someone else can get a chance!!!!      

Good luck guys!!!!   

[derekmac]

This has been a fantastic thread & I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Best of all it didn't cost me too much.   
But
How bout a chance for something more than a merit bade. A little GAW.
It is open to any one who has participated in the challenge before this post even if you have not finished yet.
I'll assign a # based on the order of your entry. I'll use a random # generator to pick the winner. Winner will be picked Saturday morning.
It's nothing Fancy, it's a used Case mini trapper. Tang is marked 6207, I don't know what that means but that's what it says. A bit of traveling in a tackle box but very little use on the blades.
You have to enter so to enter just say I'm in & post a knife pic.
You must be 18, local laws apply yada yada.

She's a Beaut Dean!!

Please count me in, and thank you!!!   

Nice combo D-Mac!!!!!! 

Thank you good sir!!


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[SteveC]

Is there a badge made for the challenge  ?

Let's hope everyone like this one

 



         

 

         

[cody6268]

I'm in the drawing for the Mini Trapper!

Today's carry when I left for college was a Klein Tools/Utica  3 1/2" Coping Knife.   But not long after I arrived,  a friend in my class, a retired mine electrician,  gave me one another Klein hawkbill, this one marked "M. Klein and Sons", which I assume is at least a few years older than the one my grandfather had at Jewell Ridge.   After that, I put the hawkbill in my pocket, and the coping knife in my pack.  He told me a few days before he had several Klein knives he'd been issued and was meaning to give me one.  This one he carried until the bail broke.   Like the rest of the Utica's I own--it's tough and of great steel--it was already sort of sharp (he'd used a chainsaw file to keep it sharp), but didn't take long on the curved edge of my stone to get it sharp as I like.   Chances are, this will be what I'll carry through Monday the 18th, which is exactly a month since I started the challenge.   

2016-09-15_08-18-38 by cody6268, on Flickr

[NutSAK]

This has been a fantastic thread & I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Best of all it didn't cost me too much.   
But
How bout a chance for something more than a merit bade. A little GAW.
It is open to any one who has participated in the challenge before this post even if you have not finished yet.
I'll assign a # based on the order of your entry. I'll use a random # generator to pick the winner. Winner will be picked Saturday morning.
It's nothing Fancy, it's a used Case mini trapper. Tang is marked 6207, I don't know what that means but that's what it says. A bit of traveling in a tackle box but very little use on the blades.
You have to enter so to enter just say I'm in & post a knife pic.
You must be 18, local laws apply yada yada.

Awesome gesture Dean.  I owe you guys a couple of pics, and will be posting them in the morning.

#6207 Just means jigged scales, two-blade, mini-trapper.  Since I already have a couple from this pattern, I will bow out of the GAW.

[Dean51]

I'm in the drawing for the Mini Trapper!

Today's carry when I left for college was a Klein Tools/Utica  3 1/2" Coping Knife.   But not long after I arrived,  a friend in my class, a retired mine electrician,  gave me one another Klein hawkbill, this one marked "M. Klein and Sons", which I assume is at least a few years older than the one my grandfather had at Jewell Ridge.   After that, I put the hawkbill in my pocket, and the coping knife in my pack.  He told me a few days before he had several Klein knives he'd been issued and was meaning to give me one.  This one he carried until the bail broke.   Like the rest of the Utica's I own--it's tough and of great steel--it was already sort of sharp (he'd used a chainsaw file to keep it sharp), but didn't take long on the curved edge of my stone to get it sharp as I like.   Chances are, this will be what I'll carry through Monday the 18th, which is exactly a month since I started the challenge.   

2016-09-15_08-18-38 by cody6268, on Flickr

Great old knife

[kaput]

18/30 traditional carry

This thing slices and dices and is a joy to carry. Really love every aspect about it!

[kaput]

Generous GAW too, I'm gonna exclude myself as I won during the 10year anny. Would much rather one of these other fellows take home the prize. Thanks Dean51, you da man!

[SAK Guy]

18/30 traditional carry

This thing slices and dices and is a joy to carry. Really love every aspect about it!

 

[SAK Guy]

I'm in the drawing for the Mini Trapper!

Today's carry when I left for college was a Klein Tools/Utica  3 1/2" Coping Knife.   But not long after I arrived,  a friend in my class, a retired mine electrician,  gave me one another Klein hawkbill, this one marked "M. Klein and Sons", which I assume is at least a few years older than the one my grandfather had at Jewell Ridge.   After that, I put the hawkbill in my pocket, and the coping knife in my pack.  He told me a few days before he had several Klein knives he'd been issued and was meaning to give me one.  This one he carried until the bail broke.   Like the rest of the Utica's I own--it's tough and of great steel--it was already sort of sharp (he'd used a chainsaw file to keep it sharp), but didn't take long on the curved edge of my stone to get it sharp as I like.   Chances are, this will be what I'll carry through Monday the 18th, which is exactly a month since I started the challenge.   

2016-09-15_08-18-38 by cody6268, on Flickr

  

[hiraethus]

Now that's over I can carry a very non-traditional slip joint:

[Gareth]

I might not have gone quite as contemporary as H, but I have also put something other than a traditional folder in my pocket today.



Can't blame a chap for wanting to coordinate with his rifle can you?

[Poncho65]

Some excellent choices and pics today again guys

[SAK Guy]

Some excellent choices and pics today again guys

+100!!!!!

Will probably try to keep the trad carry thing up for a while....when I first came to MTO, a SAK and a Trad everyday was my standard carry. I have several on the way too.... 

[NutSAK]

Traditional Challenge, Day 30

#56 GEC/Tidioute Weaver's Jack w/1095 blades and rust red Micarta scales

This is the only traditional knife remaining in my collection that I haven't already shown in this thread.  So, here it is!  Unfortunately it's rainy here and the lighting doesn't do the Micarta slabs justice at all.

[NutSAK]

Some excellent choices and pics today again guys

+100!!!!!

Will probably try to keep the trad carry thing up for a while....when I first came to MTO, a SAK and a Trad everyday was my standard carry. I have several on the way too.... 

I'm going to keep going for a while also.  This has been such a great thread!  Thanks to all who have participated! 

[SAK Guy]

Traditional Challenge, Day 30

#56 GEC/Tidioute Weaver's Jack w/1095 blades and rust red Micarta scales

This is the only traditional knife remaining in my collection that I haven't already shown in this thread.  So, here it is!  Unfortunately it's rainy here and the lighting doesn't do the Micarta slabs justice at all.

That's completely AWESOME!!! 

[NutSAK]

Thanks!  Interesting thing about that knife...  It is a factory "second".  The reason it was a second is that the Micarta slabs didn't match when it was new.

Now that the scales have aged they match perfectly.  See the link below for pictures of it when it was new.  You might not believe it's the same knife.  It is so much prettier after the aging.:

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,6299.msg490351.html#msg490351

[Dean51]

It is getting better with age. 

[Dean51]

Traditional Challenge, Day 30

#56 GEC/Tidioute Weaver's Jack w/1095 blades and rust red Micarta scales

This is the only traditional knife remaining in my collection that I haven't already shown in this thread.  So, here it is!  Unfortunately it's rainy here and the lighting doesn't do the Micarta slabs justice at all.

I'm like you I've run out of users to post.
This last one didn't make the cut, it's an older queen workhorse canoe. It's starting to patina a bit so it's about time to polish the blades again. 
I'm not a patina fan and this one has a very slight blade rub between the two blades. Patina and scratches