I went down for Saturday and turnout seemed decent, handful of the people i know with booths said sales were so-so. few did great, most sold a couple, some sold none. The show seemed more geared for knife makers than knife buyers was impression i got. And i think a lot of regional knifemakers know this too as there were A LOT of bigger names who showed up, but opted to skip having a table this year who DID last year.
And just like last year, very little PR done for the show. A quick google news search shows not even a handful of articles talking about it in the week leading up to, and the week after the show. As a former Web marketing/advertising firm partner, that shows a lack of effort in my mind. I've gotten clients with budgets under $2,500 10x the exposure this show got on the web. They did a great job utilizing instagram to get the people already into knives to come, but essentially zero effort put into getting people maybe curious about knives, or who have never been to a show to come and check it out. Portlands a decent sized city too with a lot of young money, they could of definitely increased the attendance and sales for table holders if they'd gotten word out more.
As coop mentioned above, these shows need more photo exposure to lure new people in for the next year.
