BCCI 25th Anniversary, Post Falls



Chuck Buck talking with a guest at the lunch at Chuck's home.



Chuck and friends just outside his garage on a rainy day Friday.



Lunch guests inside Chuck's garage Friday.
 
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Charming, disarming and gracious hostess Mrs. Chuck Buck and son chat with my lovely wife (on left) as they watch the many busy humming birds dart about the second story porch with several feeders and many colorful flowers.

One of the throngs of HBs:

 
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Lunch continues in the garage as it rains upon the intended outside park-like forested yard.
 


Photo of the venue from tents just off the drive for lunch guests who had a ball. Great people, excellent food and real good times.
 
See if you can follow this one. A gift from son to father of a boxed/glass display with what is supposed to be a set of prototypes. Obtained from Camillus bankruptcy. Turns out to be a set of Mission Knives and not prototypes (after it is inspected by those with knowledge of older model prototypes) from the old old days when things were rough for Chuck.



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Father/son, CJ & Chuck, great story with a twist.
 
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I could not have been made to feel more at home by everyone involved if the dog had fetched my slippers and pipe. Really. What a great time. Never a moment to spare from early morning to late night. The motel and all meals were arranged. Meals were brought in to the factory for us or served at the hotel or at the Buck home. There were constant seminars by experts in each aspect of cutlery. A DVD is available to those not in attendance at them all.

There was a surprise buildout gold rush the morning of the lunch, but at the factory. A huge amount of buildouts for members were arranged on a table in the lunch room with prices, good prices. You had your name drawn at random to spend on minute picking any two knives. Everyone picked and there were some left to return to the vault. I scored and will post pics. I won first pic after a fundraiser paid to go first. I picked a 111 and a Strider. What excitement!

You were missed ITE. Yes you were.
 
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Oregon, you are the man! Thanks for this thread and keep'em coming brother.
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I have 200 photos and several videos. This thread will take me until snow flies and then it will only be a skeleton of what happened. Nobody is not exhausted and overwhelmed by a fantastic avalanche of extraordinary cutlery and exemplary people from all over the world packing extremely rare and valuable knowledge. Heck, I had dinner with the head of the factory store and the warranty dept. The employees are tip top and lovable. Really.
 


one minute to grab two knives, first picker paid over $100 (fundraiser for the club) to pick first. I was picked to go second. This is the table of goodies/buildouts. Prices were very reasonable.



Haebbie's haul of loot (jigged bone folder and 119, both buildouts) from the one minute dash. My heart is racing right now remembering this. I had left the room looking for my wife, who was lost in the crowd in the lunch room, when Stumps hollered for me as my name was drawn first to my complete disbelief. If he hadn't come after me I would have missed my one minute window. Thank you Stumps. You are all right.
 
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The factory uses in-house 3D printing to make prototypes out of resin in minutes. I handled one but, unfortunately, had to give it back. Modern methods! Beats whittling for speed.

The prototype that CJ has been carrying for months is metal and it employs bearings @ the pivot and a continuous loop lock.
 
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Giant John Foresman, broad-shouldered President of BCCI, gets roasted a bit by lovely and gifted ladies on cruise on Lake Couer d' Aleane.

Larry Oden, now in hiding, kept the musical roasts, which were planned months in advance, a secret until the last minute when the victims were called upon on the boat.
 
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Joe Houser, busiest man alive, talented knife maker, historian, brilliant one minute dash master of ceremonies, and outstanding husband is roasted on melodious coals by gorgeous women.
 
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Shoot Straight celebrities perform at the opening nite's banquet.
 
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Young moose dining on shrubbery in Turnbull Reserve near Cheney just before dark and a few feet from a swampy lake in the Scab Lands. A sibling was nearby plus the some tall plants were swaying from something, possibly the mother who I didn't see.
 
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Casual and awesome lunch panoramic Friday @ the Buck's terrific home on a hill.
 
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Upstairs at the must see pride-generating Buck Factory, panoramic of this museum/factory floor viewing windows/entry to offices/entry to seminars.
 
Leroy Remer and I did a swap/Birthday present for each other. I gave him a vintage Geo Schrade large hawkbill Wire Jack from WW2, he has ideas and I would like to see this design brought back to life with modern materials. He gave me this fat Sambar Stag beautiful 303. Background shows what cutlery followed me home from this journey of delight.






Group photo, kitchen table background, of the rich and excellent cutlery that followed me home (my heart races when I see this photo):

Left to Right: 2 580BKS disco, 500 RWS current production, 286CMS11 skull and antler inages, 424 Bucklite blem, 730RDX last one disco, 184 vintage sheath, Leroy Remer Sambar Stag 303, 501 jigged buffalo, 880T tanto ATS-34, 111Classic Al Buck blade 1 0f 17, 535 with 531 blade, 916 BO jigged buffalo,405BO1 ATS-34, 110BO18 154CM & 901BO1 cherry scimitar.

 
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To treat us like potentates lunch was brought in to the Buck Factory freeing the hungry to attend copious seminars on cool stuff presented by experts of renown. Cool pizza truck/fire truck. The food was tip top. Barbecue the next day. Oh boy!
 
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