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One Sam made for me...
I only wish I would have been there to pick it up personally, a great friend and Gentleman, as are the rest of The Gang.
One word for that knife: TERRIBLE! Congrats my friend.
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One word for that knife: TERRIBLE! Congrats my friend.
It was crazy . Way more people there than last time I went.
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I really enjoyed my first blade. I was glad to be there to support Tad and see him get his well-deserved MS stamp. I didn't take too many photos as I discovered my phone camera has a speck of spot lodged in it. But I'll share a few of my thoughts and photos here.
My first impressions were at the sheer size and scale of the show. It is quite intimidatingly large at the onset and slightly overwhelming. Sadly I was there with a pretty strict budget but the quality of work was outstanding. It was great to get to see knifemaker's work in reality and feel them. Photographs only tell you so much and can hide a lot too!.
It is a place of characters and I mean that in a good way. As much as I enjoyed the knives, I enjoyed chatting with knife makers and people throughout the show even more. People are very generous with their time and their merchandise. In particular, I have to say thank you to Tad and Amy as always, their hospitality is second to none, to Mike Malosh for his banter and to Ben Seward for letting me have a jam with him (we probably should apologise for the racket you heard if you were at the award ceremony on Friday evening, that was Ben and me!)
Some knifemakers who really caught my eye for their designs and feel in hand:
Liam Hoffman - I really wanted to see his axes and they did not disappoint but it was his chef's knife that really caught my eye. Lovely feel in the hand, great damascus pattern and chatoyance.
Ben Seward - I was always curious about Ben's handle style and wondered how it would feel in the hand with the way it slopes off at the end, turns out it is pretty good. If only he would stop making all those recurves . . . His dad's sheath work is also impeccable, the sheath he put together for that little fighter he was delivery was a great package - well thought out and weel executed..
Kyle Gahagan - beard envy abounded with Kyle and his knives aren't half bad either. Have to say that the axe him and Liam put together was a very impressive piece of work.
Mike Deibert - Mike's feather damascus deserves the accolades that it gets. I was really impressed by the smaller knives he had at his table.
Mike Malosh - I've never been a fan of the Scagel style of knives but if there is one guy who can do it, it is Mike Malosh. Some of his smaller hunters were some of the most comfortable knives I had in my hand at the whole show.
Tad Lynch - though I have a distinct bias towards Tad I thought that his MS set of knives hit it out of the park. The dagger was as clean and elegant a dagger as anyone could want for and the ladder pattern was superb. I particularly liked his harpoon integral Bowie but I decided to take the small hunter as Tad and I have a project in the work Bowie related. The large walrus handled Bowie was a stunning piece and epitomised everything I like about a bowie, but that's is because it's an 'on steroids' and fancy version of the fighter Tad put together for me.
Some of Tad's knives:
Ben Seward and myself:
Mike Deibert
Liam Hoffman:
My first impressions were at the sheer size and scale of the show. It is quite intimidatingly large at the onset and slightly overwhelming. Sadly I was there with a pretty strict budget but the quality of work was outstanding. It was great to get to see knifemaker's work in reality and feel them. Photographs only tell you so much and can hide a lot too!.
It is a place of characters and I mean that in a good way. As much as I enjoyed the knives, I enjoyed chatting with knife makers and people throughout the show even more. People are very generous with their time and their merchandise. In particular, I have to say thank you to Tad and Amy as always, their hospitality is second to none, to Mike Malosh for his banter and to Ben Seward for letting me have a jam with him (we probably should apologise for the racket you heard if you were at the award ceremony on Friday evening, that was Ben and me!)
Some knifemakers who really caught my eye for their designs and feel in hand:
Liam Hoffman - I really wanted to see his axes and they did not disappoint but it was his chef's knife that really caught my eye. Lovely feel in the hand, great damascus pattern and chatoyance.
Ben Seward - I was always curious about Ben's handle style and wondered how it would feel in the hand with the way it slopes off at the end, turns out it is pretty good. If only he would stop making all those recurves . . . His dad's sheath work is also impeccable, the sheath he put together for that little fighter he was delivery was a great package - well thought out and weel executed..
Kyle Gahagan - beard envy abounded with Kyle and his knives aren't half bad either. Have to say that the axe him and Liam put together was a very impressive piece of work.
Mike Deibert - Mike's feather damascus deserves the accolades that it gets. I was really impressed by the smaller knives he had at his table.
Mike Malosh - I've never been a fan of the Scagel style of knives but if there is one guy who can do it, it is Mike Malosh. Some of his smaller hunters were some of the most comfortable knives I had in my hand at the whole show.
Tad Lynch - though I have a distinct bias towards Tad I thought that his MS set of knives hit it out of the park. The dagger was as clean and elegant a dagger as anyone could want for and the ladder pattern was superb. I particularly liked his harpoon integral Bowie but I decided to take the small hunter as Tad and I have a project in the work Bowie related. The large walrus handled Bowie was a stunning piece and epitomised everything I like about a bowie, but that's is because it's an 'on steroids' and fancy version of the fighter Tad put together for me.
Some of Tad's knives:
Ben Seward and myself:
Mike Deibert
Liam Hoffman: