1st Annual Knife Dogs Awards

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I am liking the idea of the traditional, fancy awards.
I was looking at the link you gave Steve, and this one seems fitting.
Then just have all the info etched in.
I like the gold reflection in it, they also offer colors. Maybe silver?

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I agree that it will be difficult to go back through all of the posts from the past year and locate all of the pictures posted in numerous sub-forums. Maybe all of the pictures of nominated knives can be copied and posted in one thread or galley?
 
I think you are right, Mike.
If we have a separate thread with eligible knives, how do they get there? Some makers won't put up a knife to be judged. Somebody will need to dig through the archives and ressurect the entries.
This will be a challenge for sure.

Oh Boy, details, details...
 
I would suggest those nominating a knife locate the pictures of the knives they wish to nominate and submit a link to the original thread or copy the picture. That puts the job on the readers who wish to nominate a knife or knifemaker. When it comes time to vote it would certainly be good to have all nominees in one place for review.

The question about how to define or identify a new maker is another tough one.
 
Let's consider that most everything about this (except a max of 10 slots) is NOT settled at this point. We are discussing until we get tired of that or come to resolution or a couple weeks -- which ever comes first.

I would think any maker can self nominate. If you are knife maker, in most cases you have to self nominate at shows to win. In some cases you don't but let's not block self nominations.

These are my opinions when I am part of this conversation, not decisions. I have no intention of deciding all this. I am not the decider.
 
clancy said:
How about a plaque with a carved knife shape? I have a CNC router that I use in my sign business. I can convert a drawing and cut the shape along with any text desired.

You can see samples of my carved signs at our web site.

ernie balch
www.balchsigns.com
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Nice offer. Thank you.
Let's keep this on the table for an option.
I am going to PM you for a quote on some work for me.
 
Self entry would insure that the knives are found and do get into the proper category. This would also help with the new makers being sorted properly. Let's face it, this will be 100% on the honor system. Not sure if I would eliminate nominations by others if someone can come up with a good reason for both systems.

This open forum works great. This is how things get decided.
 
I agree that self nomination is a good idea as well as nominations by others. I just think it would be to hard to go through all the pics, there are 39 pages in the gallery alone.
As far as new makers go, I think our little group here should operate pretty well on the honor system.

Sean

Edit: You posted while I was typing Mike. :)
 
I don't think we should worry . Part of being a Knife Dog is operating on the honor system . Again , that's why these are going to be the most sought after of all Knife awards .
 
Maybe going forward we could open the 2011 thread early and leave it open all year. That way people could make nominations as they see them rather than going back through all of the post at the end of the year.
 
I think looking back is good way to get started but I'd like to start this year's now and plan when it will end for the 2nd annual Doggies..
 
BossDog said:
I think looking back is good way to get started but I'd like to start this year's now and plan when it will end for the 2nd annual Doggies..
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I think that is a good idea. I think we start a thread now for next year and we end it 12-31-11 and vote the first week of January 2012
 
I completely agree with Mike. There should be a thread for nominated knives and makers open for the entire year. Would be a one stop shop for the voters making the voting process easier, thus, encouraging more votes. Correction of errors for next year is already taking this idea from good to great.

Ernie, I am with you on your point. I would never nominate myself because it just wouldn't feel right.
A point was brought up that most knife makers have to nominate themselves by entering a knife into a contest for it to be judged and hopefully win. I think by not allowing self nominations the award would be just that more special because someone other than the maker took the time to look at the knife, admire it and decide that it was worthy of an award. To me, that is what the award should be about. If someone nominated my knife for an award it would be a huge confidence booster.

I think that no matter if self nominations are allowed or not, there is a good possibility of feelings getting hurt. The two scenarios are:
1) self nominations are allowed; I nominate my knife and don't win I could be upset and
2) self nominations are not allowed; non of my knives are nominated and I could get upset.

At this point its is the lesser of two evils and a matter of perspective. I would rather see someone take the time to nominate my knife rather than me just nominating myself. This way I at least have the opportunity to look at the glass at a half full perspective. I hope you guys are seeing what I'm trying to say.

Just my .02

EP
 
I also agree with Boss, no bone shaped awards...if by some miracle I did win an award my dog would try to eat it then I would want to strangle her...as it stands, she gives me plenty of reasons to strangle her and doesn't need any help with that:9:
 
Boy, you don't show up around here for a couple of days and who knows what you're going to find when you get back and that was a lot of reading to catch up on.

The idea of KD awards sounds great. Thanks Steve for putting forth the idea. And to all the posters, kudos. There have been some great ideas.

I have one that I'd like to toss out for consideration. Every time I see award results, the poor guy who just make user knives with no glitter or glitz never even get an honorable mention. There are a number of makers on KD who make good, honest, user knives who will forever get left out of any kind of awards if a category for them isn't included for consideration.

Just a thought.

If I can help, let me know.

Carey
 
If me/my knives aren't nominated by my peers, that means I/my knives didn't make as much of an impression as others. I'm OK with that. If it was up to me, I'd disallow self-nominations. That just clutters things up.

Of course there's going to be an element of "popularity contest" and maybe even "backroom politics", that's part of how awards work. Again, I'm OK with that. Popularity comes to folks who do outstanding work and/or contribute to the community; politics smells like, well, politics and I bet that won't be a big factor here.

Let's not make this too complicated for the guys who are just trying to encourage makers/fans/KD itself. The cream will rise to the top.

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I think looking back is good way to get started but I'd like to start this year's now and plan when it will end for the 2nd annual Doggies..
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Of course you realize that I and others are going to keep that in mind and do the very best we can, hoping for a nom next year... hmmm that's not such a bad thing after all, is it? ;)
 
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