BCCI 25th Anniversary, Post Falls



Cool gift, seen here on the dash of my car parked outside the Buck Factory building, from a forum member and oracle of multi-tools who lives a stones throw from the factory, had an incredible display at the hotel and is an generous as the day is long. You know who you are MW. Thank you kindly.

Speaking of kindness. I asked Jared, brilliant knife maker from from just North of the border in Canada, about Canadian Tire in his home town. He takes out his smart phone, searches CT's inventory for 424 Bucklites and gives me the price and in stock info in about 2 seconds flat. The he schools me about the border crossing and cutlery plus gives me road information on my intended route. Wow. Thank you Jared. I made it as far as Kootenai Wildlife Refuge near Bonner, Id. but reversed course South to explore Sandpoint and giant Lake Pendarey (sp).



Deer on the Kootenai Refuge.
 
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Thanks for posting all the videos Oregon I enjoyed watching them very much .
 
D-RIG said:
Thanks for posting all the videos Oregon I enjoyed watching them very much .
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You are welcome D-RIG. It is my pleasure. This is an amazing forum and I'm pleased and proud to hang out here. You all have given me a great deal of enjoyment/excitement/knowledge over the well-spent years.
 
After a long journey I am back home again. I missed wife and kids, also Ranger, the dog. But I enjoyed the meeting and it was great to meet you all over there. I am sure that was not the last time I get into a plane and meet you at one of the next BCCI-celebrations.
God bless you, guys!!!
Herbert
 
I've never been around such a large group of friendly people. Thank you all for the kind words. An experience of a lifetime for me :)

Here's my favorite photo of the trip:

 
Haebbie said:
After a long journey I am back home again. I missed wife and kids, also Ranger, the dog. But I enjoyed the meeting and it was great to meet you all over there. I am sure that was not the last time I get into a plane and meet you at one of the next BCCI-celebrations.
God bless you, guys!!!
Herbert
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I am happy that you arrived home safe and sound. It was a pleasure to meet you and walk with a giant of the forum who I am a fan of.
 
110 Dave said:
wow what a great thread !
one of the best I have ever seen of a show
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You were so kind to introduce yourself because I really wanted to meet you. Thank you kindly for showing me your good fortune find salesman sample clear resin 110. It was absolutely perfect on all fronts. Quite the find and a thrill to see and handle. WTG.
 
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I've never been around such a large group of friendly people. Thank you all for the kind words. An experience of a lifetime for me :)

Here's my favorite photo of the trip:

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Leroy, who's Birthday it is today, is a giant in my eyes. I took the factory tour with him and he was on the workers like white on rice, like a long lost friend to everyone. That is a great photo and thank you for sharing it.
 


A chart with some 2011 market information from a presentation to members. Buck shows a healthy share of the market. I've never seen these statistics before. Good news to me.
 
A picture is worth a thousand words.



Talk about saturating the members! Even the cookies were BCCI. Those cookies were baked by Larry Oden, I think, because he was the engine behind every sweet surprise during the 25th.

Larry has contacted me making it clear that the cookies tasted real good so he couldn't have had a hand involved in their making. :) Thank you Larry. Get some much deserved rest my friend. You are a champion.
 
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A terrific collection of vintage 110s that was 35 years in the collecting process and was offered for sale @ $4k. A real treat to see. The seller had another one, like this one, to keep for himself. Awesome.
 


Knife swap high point for me was the Michael Prater adulterated adults only automatic that, as a BCCI donation by the maker, auctioned for a wade of cash. Thank you Mr. Prater for your generosity and incredible talent. One of the hard-working auction runners was kind enough to stop and put this down so I could photograph it quickly as Craig was calling out the bids.
 
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A terrific collection of vintage 110s that was 35 years in the collecting process and was offered for sale @ $4k. A real treat to see. The seller had another one, like this one, to keep for himself. Awesome.
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Amazing!! Just out of curiosity . . . did it sale?
 
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I saw it during my last go around the room before I left so I don't think that it did sell. However, I am not certain. Kind of like a three-ring circus the swap was held in a large banquet room with tables around the perimeter where vendors/collectors/employees/attendees offered their goods. An auction was in progress with runners showing the goods. And, it didn't close down till very very late at night. I did not know the seller but was told that he was the master 110 collector and I am certain that someone knows him and whether or not the set sold. George Stinzel, I believe, is the collector/vendor.
 
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What a trip. It was great to put names with faces and meet so many new people. A Thank you goes out to the BCCI and its members for a wonderful event. Here is a picture of my Dad and I on the lake cruise in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
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Looks like a great time! I sure wished my wife and I could have made it. Thanks for all the great pictures and stories.

Eric/arksknives
 
Steve, you've outdone yourself with this thread and all the wonderful pictures that you and others have posted. It just makes me very sad that I wasn't able to attend, but sometime life just gets in the way.

Thanks again, your efforts are truly appreciated!
 
It is a excellent thread ,glad i could be here to read it.Would have loved to get to be there in person and take it all in.SOME DAY!
 
I appreciate all of the kind words as I am sure all the posters of comments and photos do. Thank you.

Joe Houser may very well be the busiest man on earth. Really.

I figured that I could corral him last week in person because I can't tell you how many times I wanted to email him with this or that question. Didn't happen. He was always doing several things at once, folks were constantly queued up to speak with him, he was zooming here and there and pitching in at every turn to get the work out.. Because the Buck plant is of finite size so it only holds so much in terms of materials, machines and people AND because Buck isn't farming out as much work to other (foreign or domestic) manufacturers everyone has to work harder/longer/better.

For example, Joe had so many buildouts for the BCCI attendees that my head is still swimming with the choices I was presented with in the form of unique Buck knives I could buy. I brought as many of them home as I could and there were lots left over after the event (future goodies already exist).

Why isn't he on the forum you ask? A certain Jamaican sprinter would be hard pressed to keep up with this terrific fellow. He is a real gem. Another friend of the forum at the table.

The big picture of how this outstanding forum fits has many BCCI members never having seen it and have only heard of the Buck forum. I showed the forum to one attendee and no skyrockets went off for him immediately. Many BCCI member don't embrace the internet at all. Old school person to person only members. Acceptance of computers, internet and this forum has a hill to climb.
 
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