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Who is our Featured member of 2016?

Every quarter we name our featured members. How do you become one?

Posting. Better yet posting something you will see comments from. Basically, being active. At the end of every year we look over the members that have achieved that status over the year and where they are in the featured members line up month by month.

Our Featured Member of 2016 was not only featured almost every month (at or near the top), he contributed to our knowledge base consistently. He is regularly posting in the Knife Repair, Modification, Restoration & Improvement Group, the KNIFE MAKING BEGINNERS and now also a regular contributor to the newest group Tools for knife enthusiasts. As if that is not enough, he contibutes to the forum and blogs also.

A man that balances his love of collecting and his skill to learn to the next level and brought us along on the journey. Thank you D ale, for all you do to make iKC The Best Knife Site on the web!

OH, AND WHAT DOES HE WIN??

This is the one time of year I get to tailor the gift to the member. For D ale, we have chosen a gift certificate to Jantz Knife Supply! I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy your postings!!

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Permalink Reply by John Kellogg on January 26, 2017 at 19:24

Congrats Dale! Great Job!

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Permalink Reply by Roger Russell on January 26, 2017 at 20:47

Congratulations D ale!

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Permalink Reply by andrew fowles on January 27, 2017 at 12:46

D ale

Congrats you were also the first to provide a good tip to a new member.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Fletcher on January 28, 2017 at 18:19

Congrats, D ale !!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Squier on January 29, 2017 at 9:25

Fantastic D ale, a great choice, I always read his coments even if I dont coment back.

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Permalink Reply by allanm on January 30, 2017 at 8:03

Congratulations Dale!

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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on January 31, 2017 at 14:50

It was a GREAT mail day for me yesterday.

Two knives .. a full color JANTZ catalog ..&.. a gift certificate good for ANYTHING & EVERYTHING in said catalog.

WOWZA .. did I have a good day !!!

The round keyring knife .. was a bust.

Blade steel is not that great .. spring is weak .. more on that later.

The small OTF .. was purchased for the frame & mechanism. The blade steel ..well.. a std (cheap ..so, perhaps.. sub-std) needle file readily gouges any blade surface to which it is applied. Need I say more ? It was purchased for the parts.

The full color JANTZ catalog.

Visualize .. proverbial kid in candy store.

I would submit .. in house for under 24 hrs ..&.. note the frayed edges & corners.

It didn't arrive that way.

And .. full color .. that's just plain cheating !!!

It seems, I'm stuck in the blade blanks section .. go figure.

D2 tempered to a 60 +/- 1 HRC is looking pretty interesting !!!

I'll see you in the "Repair & Mod" group.

Thanks all.

D ale