Blade 2012

[Murray White]

Steven Kelly does some very nice fixed blades and also folders including some for the tactical crowd.

a couple of fancy fighters

Rich MacDonald does some nice work in the frontier style of knife and sheath

a nice frontier fighter with matching genre sheath

this will be a short # of photos as I have to contend with BF photo restrictions and the next grouping has 7 images but they will be up shortly.

 

[Lorien]

very appreciative of this thread, thank you so much, Murray!

 

[Bruce Bump]

I don't see any knives in Rich MacDonalds shot

 

[Murray White]

While Rodrigo Sfreddo was unable to make it to the show and Ricardo Vilar brought some knives, unfortunately I missed seeing them but did spend a lot of time with RV talking about his new line of semi production knives.

including this closeup of the knife being held by Ricardo

all these knives are produced for various branches of the military and security forces in Brazil

here is an English youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgAieaZXiE

and more in Portugese but visually show the knive's capabilities

http://rvilarfacas.wordpress.com/videos/

Ricardo did bring a few traditional ABS knives also

Sandro Boeck also from Brazil accompanied Ricardo and had a couple of nice knives that also were very tempting

A nice Bowie and a hunter

Not sure if more will be added tonight as it is now time to go back to editing some more of the 260 image done for Blade 2012.

 

[Idlewild]

Thanks very much Murray for all the work you put into this review...much appreciated. I regret that I was unable to take advantage of the info and help you gave me to go to this show. I can see that I missed so much. Hopefully I'll make the next one!!!

Robert

 

[braillediver]

Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing this. It seems almost overwhelming.

Maybe in another thread some one could help explain how to do Blade Show? Buy the first pretty thing you see / rush to your favorite maker or stagger around drooling?

 

[SharpByCoop]

Thanks Murray. A monumental job, appreciated by thousands!

Coop

 

[Berno]

thank you for this transatlantic journey....

 

[lmeister]

Great thread. Much appreciated.

 

[RogerP]

I should have grabbed one of those military pieces from Ricardo - they were sharp as hell and felt just about indestructible.

Roger

 

[Buffalohump]

Oh man what an embarrassment of riches. There is no way I could ever go to Blade because I would surely bankrupt myself! Thanks so much for taking the time to take and post these pics, they are a terrific taster for those who cannot make it.

Particularly enjoyed the Camerer pieces and that insane bowie by the master, Fisk.

 

[jklein7401]

Another great Blade in the books. Thanks so much Murray for taking the time as you always do documenting this event. It was great seeing all my old friends, meeting new ones, & seeing some fantastic knives.

Jon

 

[Shaw Blades]

Thanks for taking the time to upload all these pictures.

 

[jjtjr]

Murray,

Another great Blade Show review. I always see things in your photos that I missed at the Show.

It was nice to see Phyllis and you again.

Jim Treacy

 

[Murray White]

The ABS as usual had lots of knives available for the Saturday morning auction.

Bertie Reitveld is on of many fine South African maker and his daggers and folders can't help but be enjoyed by all knife affecionados

some wonderful daggers

typical Reitveld folders

Bill Buxton always has great Bowies and Fighters

a variety of handle materials among these fighters

nice mammoth ivory

Brian Tighe had a successful show with his regular "tighe" knives and extraordinary good luck with his newest knife, the BiTighe

 

[Murray White]

Bruce Barnett had lot of knives for potential customers

a typical hunter with nicely presented sheath

a Bowie, folders and chef knife

a nice coffin handle fighter

Erik Fritz had a nice selection

including this hunter and fighter

Gary House has a lot of different knives available at his table.

dagger and a couple of other big one hanging out with a little folder

walrus fighter and bowie

 

[Murray White]

Jerry "the Gnome" Rados had a nice bowie and a single hunter at Blade 2012

Jerry Van Elzenga creates a wide variety of knives for the discerning collector or user

D guards and the Scagel influence are seen more each year

along with folders and unique daggers

and some utility blades

Lots of hunter and utility knives presented by Keith Bagley

Loyd McConnel has a wide variety of knives with some unique aspects to them

Bowies, fighters and folders

Gold and Ivory embellish this piece

 

[Murray White]

John Davis forges many knives with interesting handle materials that can't help but be enjoyed

and note the effort to make interesting sheaths for his work

Michael Tyre talks about his knives to a customer

folders are much of his fare

hunters and fighters

Anyone else creating the variety of different edged tools and weapons that does Reese Weiland?

here is the typical look to the Reese Weiland folder

with a typical and traditional liner lock folder he also offers

RL Welling seems to be well into the Scagel tradition

including this Persian style subhilt fighter

 

[Murray White]

Lon Humphrey certainly brings a lot to the table and to the Blade Show 2012

A collector's favorite at this show was Sam Lurquin with his mini and traditional sized fighters

including this very slick rig

A customer examines the knife that fits the sheath rig on the body of maker, Scott McGhee

all in a row

Shane Taylor is one of many a fine maker from Montana

making both folders

and also a fixed blade specifically made for this Native American sheath that Shane found in a pawn shop many years ago

Sandra Brady had lots of her Scrimshaw work available

 

[Murray White]

While a customer looks over a knife by SR Johnson, Steve keeps an eye on a grandchild

and here is something typical he is doing in collaboration with Barry Lee Hands

Tony Hughes talks knives with a customer

a hunter and fighter being offered

Vince Evans has them lined up to either get funds or permission to use them to acquire on of his artistic creations

such as these typical swords so well known to collectors of Vince Evan's cutlery

or maybe it was this Scottish Dirk that captured the collector's imagination

Stephan Fowler had a nice selection in addition to the one he sold at the CKCA mini show

Tad Lynch is proceeding very nicely with his damascus fighters

And while there are more to come from Saturday and a few from Sunday, we will close at the moment with Billy Mace Imel