Blade Show 2006 Photos - pt.2

[UnknownVT]

From Saturday, June/17/2006

Ernest Emerson ............................................... Mel Pardue

Ken Onion & Frank Centofante ............................ CRKT - Doug Flagg & James Williams (of Bugei)

Kencrest booth - my best pic of the show

Pics from Friday June/16 -

Blade Show 2006 Photos - pt.1

Blade Show 2006 Photos - Tameshigiri!
Japanese Sword Cutting

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[UnknownVT]

4th Annual Blade Show World Cutting Championship -

Reggie Barker (last year's champ) chopping 2x4 ...... Burt Foster - severing rope hung only with thread

Michael Bouse - piercing bladder ......................... Dickie Robinson - chopping wood

The last chopping wood to kindling damaged and elminated all but two of the contestants - leaving only Burt Foster and Lin Rhea......

Lin Rhea's winning rope cut.

Award presentation .......................................... and new champ - Lin Rhea.

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[224477]

Great pics Vincent, thanks for sharing them

 

[SharpByCoop]

I commend you not only on having and posting photos, but on their superb quality! Fantastic work. :thumbup:

Coop

 

[David1967]

Great pictures - thank you.

David

 

[lwrhea]

I just now run across this thread and I appreciate your great photos. I hope you dont mind if I keep some for myself. I was hardly able to take any pictures the whole show. I've been relying on you guys to supply me and I must say I've seen pleased with your photography. Jim Crowell was nice enough to mail me some prints! Thanks again, Lin Rhea

 

[Wulf]

Cool pics! I'm just noticing this thread for the first time too. I even see my ugly mug in the background of one of the shots (blue shirt, sunglasses in the photo of Lin cutting the rope).

 

[UnknownVT]

I hope you dont mind if I keep some for myself.
Lin Rhea

Of course - I'm flattered and honored.

Congratulations on your win.

Perhaps some thoughts/comments please -

during the bladder burst section a number of knife tips were damaged - initially the damaged knives were eliminated - then re-admitted with a penalty. It's hard to determine whether the tips were damaged by the baking (steel) tin or the supporting glass case -

what was the reason a supporting glass case was used instead of say just the wooden table top - where any damage to the tip would be from only the baking (steel) tin?

Chopping the piece of wood into small strips of "firewood" - I was really surprised that so many edges were damaged from this test - eliminating all but two - can you please help shed some light on why this was so - and how did you avoid damaging your edge?

Thanks,

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[golok]

Great pictures. Thanks.