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Kohai999 said:
We could take up a collection amongst ourselves to pay for an airline ticket(say $100.00/individual) and he could make a knife to lottery amongst those that chipped in. or something.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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I'm in also. I think it's a great idea. I for one was so impressed with his knives I placed an order with him.
 
Here's some background on Gustavo, the text is the one in my website:

Gustavo Colodetti Vilar is one of a kind. He is a hard working man that learns fast and has been showing constant development on his craft. Maybe that is because he takes what he does in a very artistic perspective. Some words from him:

People told me that making knives was something for elderly people, that a Young man like me, usually, would spend all day in front of a computer.

It is not really that strange that in times of globalization people would say something like that, where cultural and human values are frequently forgotten.


The taste for the art of making knives, I must confess, did not happen for a necessity to rescue the trades of the knifemaker nor the blacksmith, but for the pleasure and will to crate something with my bare hands, and above all, for the inexplicable fascination I have for this object since childhood.

This is intimately linked to the activities developed by my father, who is an forged iron sculptor. Since early age I used to attend his atelier where I had the first contact with the tools and even tried my hand on making some “things”, always under the vigilant eye of my master.

Time went by and I started working with my father on the production of his sculptures. The fact that we were almost daily dealing with forged iron, making the tools needed for the sculptures has also influenced me a lot. So my first knife was born.

From that on everything happened very fast; I bought specific literature on the subject and made a few courses in the custom blademaking area. In Brazil this activity is very rare and fairly unknown, being the number of artisans producing fine cutlery very restricted.

That came to be by the difficulties that the steel working present, not counting the slow creation process and the ergonomics and functional aspects associated to it, without being careless for aesthetics.

Every piece to be created presents a new challenge. After being carefully created, satisfaction comes up and the dialog and harmony between the several materials used becomes visible, prevailing the limits of each one of them.
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Perhaps we should open another thread or work this out by e-mail...

STeven? Since it was your idea, what do you think?

Jeff
 
I don't have any experience with this kind of thing, but it should be fairly simple.

If Gustavo can find the ticket he needs, and the hotel to stay at, I can pay for it, and collect later.

You can e-mail me, Jeff, you know the address, and we can work it out.

I'll let everyone know the total, and see who wants to kick down, and then we will have a slip with that person's name to drop in a box at Blade next year, and Gustavo will pick the name, after he gets his JS stamp.:D

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
That is very generous of you STeven, thank you.

I will e-mail you later today.

We must also discuss what sort of knife are we talking about.

Jeff
 
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