Blade show 2013 haul + my experience! *Pic heavy*

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My first purchase of the day was a ZT 0170 had been meaning to pick one up and the where discontinued.....just couldn't resist for $90:D and I'm loving it so far!

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100' of coyote tan 550 cord...

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Got myself a plain Jain mini grip in 154-CM from knife works, this on cut me within a hour:o (really great people to deal with and just chat, not that they had much time to chat at blade lol) they actually had 1 black G10 para 2 for $117...
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Got 2 of these prybuddie XLs for $20 apiece from Sharpwerks (yes with a "E") I have been carrying one for the past two days and I'm loving it!

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Frog lube lol, food safe and it smells like mint....works good, I'll be ordering another bottle some time soon...

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Not much to say about this, did watch tuffthumbz make a video about the table where I got it though!

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Case pen knife, got this one making feather sticks...out of my hairs:D (ignore the card, just needed something in the background so I could get the knife in focus)
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now hide your kids and hide your wife, there's pirates around here:eek:
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.you guessed it.....me blade show swag!!!! Arrrrr you got to love some free crap:cool:

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That's what I got give or take some boar tusks lol...onto the people (IMO the best part of the show)


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I got to handle a sebenza (I understand now) they are perfect...a shirogorov model 111....

I met Todd Beggs briefly, and his brother, let me tell you his brother is certainly not what the show "blade brothers" made him out to be, he's defiantly not the kind of person to ride around Todd's shop on a bike screwing things up. I got to handle the "frontline flipper" which was amazing (it was a TI liner lock with G10 scales and LSCF inlays) did to getto handle a bodega though...

It got to meet Greg Medford and the crew and handle all the new knives...the viper flipper was sick! If your reading this, where's my hats man?

DJ Urbanovsky from American kami was a fun guy to chat with and this is easily my faorite pic from the hole show. I really want one of his TI sporks next year!

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John Grimsmo was fun to talk with, I especially liked the norsemans because I've been watching knife making Tuesday sense week 8! For anyone that's curious he's holding a wood (desert ironwood IIRC) inlay Norseman and a his personal carry knife (another Norseman)
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now my highlights,

I got to meet tuffthumbz (Geoff) gavko (Mike) anonymous (John) sugar creek forge (Dan) Sam and jdavis882...all really cool people, even if some of them couldn't slice paper:p some news, I talked to Geoff (tuffthumbz) and anyone that follows his work will know about the toads, thanks to blade HQ boker will be making them! ETA is next year.

Over at the Kershaw/ZT/Shun booth I got to meet Thomas W, jimmer, Jen, stickdrum, greenie, kershaw guy:) all great people....expet for stick of course:p also thanks to Thomas I got to handle the 888, 0600, and various other things (I'm just going to let everyone wonder) along with the protos and a 777! (Thanks Dave!)

The booth!
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Now, the best part of the show for me was meeting Todd Rexford and getting to handle his personal singularity (can anyone say grail?) he gave me some insight into the design of the 801/801CF and he was just a all around nice person!

His singularity! (Notice the damascus inlay in the pivot) sorry I know this isn't he greatest pic, but I was more interested in the maker:)

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And that's blade show 2013 for me, it was a blast, I enjoyed meeting some forum members and if you weren't there I hope to see you next year! Sorry if some grammar is off, frankly I don't give a d*mn:D feel free to ask questions, I'll answer them if I can:)

Have a good one!

-Kirby
 
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VENI VIDI VICI said:
sick pictures, must have been insane!!! oh ya, first responce!
also, what was the 0777 like?
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It was amazing, the acton was as smooth as can be, the ergot where phenomenal and an all around cool knife!

TotalDbag said:
Hope to see you, and many others next year Kirb.
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Ditto!

Just wanted to add a shout out to Nolan at the benchmade booth, it was a pleasure talking to you and your rant on battoning was first class:D
 
9blades said:
It was amazing, the acton was as smooth as can be, the ergot where phenomenal and an all around cool knife!



Ditto!

Just wanted to add a shout out to Nolan at the benchmade booth, it was a pleasure talking to you and your rant on battoning was first class:D
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would u say its worth the cash??? of course i cant afford one... yet. but I think that that will be my first "real" knife, (by "real" I mean around $500, I know that doesnt mean quality, but to me it means first hard earned knife, I dont consider a $30 pick up "real" I didnt "really" work for it,


derp, way too long... I mean real from my end, not the knife...
 
VENI VIDI VICI said:
where will next years be located?


yesss 343th post... halo... lol
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Atlanta:)

VENI VIDI VICI said:
would u say its worth the cash??? of course I can't afford one... yet. but I think that that will be my first "real" knife, (by "real" I mean around $500, I know that doesnt mean quality, but to me it means first hard earned knife, I dont consider a $30 pick up "real" I didnt "really" work for it,


derp, way too long... I mean real from my end, not the knife...
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I'd say if you can find one for under $700 then yes, it's worth it 100 percent! And I would work your way up before you start getting $500 knives, if you get one this early on you won't be very satisfied with cheaper knives lol (and you can't exactly go around spending $500 twice a week:p
 
You've certainly got broad taste. That's a good thing. ZT to Case. Before I die I aim to go to Blade, but I dunno if Ill ever get there. I'm eager to try that Frog Lube stuff, and see if it's all it's cracked up to be.
 
9blades said:
Atlanta:)



I'd say if you can find one for under $700 then yes, it's worth it 100 percent!
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cool,
and darn... alanta, wouldnt be able to go >:c too far for my parents to just drive me too and not commit to the thing... will they ever have it in tinypop?
 
Very cool, its about time someone posts some pics from bladeshow. looks like a blast.
 
Nice pictures. How much was that red thing? Looks neat. I hope you had fun, Kirby. I wish it could have been up North more. Then maybe I could go haha.
 
Holy crap, DJ Urbanovsky looks exactly like ?uestlove from The Roots! I totally didn't expect that.
 
jeffsenpai said:
Very cool, its about time someone posts some pics from bladeshow. looks like a blast.
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I'll be posting a few more tomorrow:)

MattyLav said:
Nice pictures. How much was that red thing? Looks neat. I hope you had fun, Kirby. I wish it could have been up North more. Then maybe I could go haha.
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I think it was $20, might have been $17 though...hopefully I'll see you there next year, and I did have a blast!

VENI VIDI VICI said:
oh, you get the joke name... i meant minnesota mini soda tiny soda tiny pop... lol
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This is confusing...

MattyLav said:
Lol tinypop :) I think Atlanta is too far for me lol. I wish it could be in Boston
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It's not too far, it's worth it trust me! (yeah I'm not one to talk, I live an hour away:p)
 
9blades said:
I think it was $20, might have been $17 though...hopefully I'll see you there next year, and I did have a blast!

It's not too far, it's worth it trust me! (yeah I'm not one to talk, I live an hour away:p)
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Haha thanks :) and maybe it will be closer to me soon :)
 
9blades said:
Atlanta:)



I'd say if you can find one for under $700 then yes, it's worth it 100 percent! And I would work your way up before you start getting $500 knives, if you get one this early on you won't be very satisfied with cheaper knives lol (and you can't exactly go around spending $500 twice a week:p
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Like me :D
Kershaw Blur to TiLT in less than 3 months :)
 
9blades said:
Atlanta:)



I'd say if you can find one for under $700 then yes, it's worth it 100 percent! And I would work your way up before you start getting $500 knives, if you get one this early on you won't be very satisfied with cheaper knives lol (and you can't exactly go around spending $500 twice a week:p
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ik ik, i mean my first real knife when im in my late 25s wont be able to afford one liberally (with spare cash) untill i have a real job, i just like to plan ahead, also, i lied, THIS is my last post for a month ;)
 
This was my first year to go and I had to work today so I was only there friday but its really an experience ill never forget
When I met todd rexford I didnt even realize at first it was him because I grabbed the zt colab they released at blade set down looked up and was like woah wait your todd rexford was prettu finny great guy
Best part of the show for me was talking to jake hoback tho so amazing
Definitely going back next yr

Did you not get to see mark beggs custom bodega he was carrying with him and his brothers surprised him with it because its modified to something he had designed someone actually tried to buy it off him lol
 
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