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First of all, I may screw these comments up somethin' awful. I hardly ever drink, but Friday nite caused Saturday to be braincell death day for me. So excuse the wandering in this post, but it's a dandy.
Most know I collect Curt Erickson's knives, among others. Well, this year Julie Warenski had three knives, plus a few more! The display included several daggers, etc that were both Julie's AND Curt's makers marks.
Well, if you've heard of how the AKI works, most knives have a fixed price, the number of "bidders" (read that buyers) is a fixed number. I imagine there were probably about the same number of knives as invitees, because some makers bring more than others, though there is a minimum and maximum number each maker can bring.
And these guys, if they decide on the knives they are NOT interested in, they more or less give their "option" to bid to a friend or guy who really wants that knife, and that guy collects as many of those "options" as he can because he will stand a MUCH better chance of winning "that" knife. Remember, all the knives are priced, no bidding, just drawing for the right to buy (a few expections to this rule).
Sorry about the long explanation. I knew little or nothing about this fun they have, no way could I deal with trying to do all the "optioning" WITH THIS HUMONGOUS hangover - so I only put my name into four drawings - just my single ticket. And they were four knives everyone wanted, but my chances were zilch because the boxes for each of these four knives were stuffed with every name in the house.
Lo and behold, 15 min after the drawing, someone comes up to me and says I have first right to a Jurgen Steinau - image below (sorry, no image hosting here). The title of the knife (LOL) is 'Big Knife with Hook".
When I got to Jurgen's table, it was all true. And there were guys lined up four deep who wanted to buy it from me. It was f'ing NUTS. Absolute pure luck. Up against boxes stuffed with every ticket, full to the brim, and I only put a single ticket on each of four knives and drew one of the biggies.
But beyond that, I got to see STeven again - we compare attire, since no one has ever seen me out of a Hawaiian shirt, LOL.
I met more people than I can remember, Steve Rapp, Larry Fuegen, Mark Strauss (dealer)- super good guy), Angelo Lobefaro, Don Hume, Walter Wells and Vic Wells, and on and on.
That's it. Unbelievable experience. And doubtless this is all incomplete in some way since I have, today, maybe only 10% of the braincells I had before the Fri nite chardonnay.
Most know I collect Curt Erickson's knives, among others. Well, this year Julie Warenski had three knives, plus a few more! The display included several daggers, etc that were both Julie's AND Curt's makers marks.
Well, if you've heard of how the AKI works, most knives have a fixed price, the number of "bidders" (read that buyers) is a fixed number. I imagine there were probably about the same number of knives as invitees, because some makers bring more than others, though there is a minimum and maximum number each maker can bring.
And these guys, if they decide on the knives they are NOT interested in, they more or less give their "option" to bid to a friend or guy who really wants that knife, and that guy collects as many of those "options" as he can because he will stand a MUCH better chance of winning "that" knife. Remember, all the knives are priced, no bidding, just drawing for the right to buy (a few expections to this rule).
Sorry about the long explanation. I knew little or nothing about this fun they have, no way could I deal with trying to do all the "optioning" WITH THIS HUMONGOUS hangover - so I only put my name into four drawings - just my single ticket. And they were four knives everyone wanted, but my chances were zilch because the boxes for each of these four knives were stuffed with every name in the house.
Lo and behold, 15 min after the drawing, someone comes up to me and says I have first right to a Jurgen Steinau - image below (sorry, no image hosting here). The title of the knife (LOL) is 'Big Knife with Hook".
When I got to Jurgen's table, it was all true. And there were guys lined up four deep who wanted to buy it from me. It was f'ing NUTS. Absolute pure luck. Up against boxes stuffed with every ticket, full to the brim, and I only put a single ticket on each of four knives and drew one of the biggies.
But beyond that, I got to see STeven again - we compare attire, since no one has ever seen me out of a Hawaiian shirt, LOL.
I met more people than I can remember, Steve Rapp, Larry Fuegen, Mark Strauss (dealer)- super good guy), Angelo Lobefaro, Don Hume, Walter Wells and Vic Wells, and on and on.
That's it. Unbelievable experience. And doubtless this is all incomplete in some way since I have, today, maybe only 10% of the braincells I had before the Fri nite chardonnay.
