DDR at the Las Vegas Antique Arms & Knife Show

[mndart]

I was honored to work at Darrel's table this year. The show was very busy with many great makers there. I thought I would take a thread to post some pix of the days on site.

Warren Thomas and Ryan Bailey

Some DDR and mndart friends posing while shooting the breeze about balis and folders

Koji Hara! Always smiling

Kirby Lambert!! Sold out on Saturday. Congrats Kirby!!

Dueling Gunhammers

Darrel, Warren and the boys!

Darrel joking around

"This is a knife fellas"

Ryan, slaving away, selling blades.

Bill Jury, Pete Johnston, Jody Samson!! DDR!

 

[mndart]

DDR Wally Hayes Bali in the Tactical Knives Invitational

Gunhammer lots of dammy, MOP inlay.

A Giant dammy AXD with IKBS system. IMO it eliminates the need for an auto!

Gunhammer with Dammy blade and dammy handle with a nickel silver mid-section. walrus inlay and tritium inserts inside the handles!!

Gunhammers. Bad pic.. MINE is the bottom one, orange/brown inlays!

Madd Maxx, all dammy with white lip pearl outer inlay with a black lip center inlay.

Gunhammer, dammy with ivory inlay

Gunhammer on a huge hunk of meteorite!!

Gunhammer, all dammy with fluted MOP inlay

 

[barrabas74]

OMG those are amazing, they look wow those GH's and the AXD's wow I am just awestruck at the way the look in damascus and with those inlays. Simply beautiful, just beautiful(dont even have a smilley for it). Darrel and Ryan are great guys, musta been a blast workin with them.:thumbup:

 

[mndart]

3 Gunhammers

An art piece!! A MiniMaxx, tortoise shell inlay, all mike norris dammy

dammy bali with ironwood inlays

Closeup of the DDR Hayes.

flipside of the DDR Hayes.

Damascus bali with walrus inlays

 

[mndart]

I thought I would slip this Pabu Frankenstein in here. One of the Pabu clan paid us a visit.
Nice guy, nice bali!!

Two balis, Gemini with CF inlays, and Venturi teist with anodized hadles.

Damascus bali with ivory inlays

Madd Maxx on meteorite.

Darrel's table

 

[Lambert Knives]

I had a chance to handle a good number of Darrel's knives in Vegas.
Simply amazing!!!! The all damascus gunhammers with the tritium inserts and the spring assists were by far some of the coolest knives I have ever seen!!!
Not to mention the bali collab with Warren!!!
Like I have said before, Darrel is definitely one of the most talented designer / makers in the biz.
Keep on raising that bar Darrel!!

Kirby

 

[mndart]

Here is a better pic of the tritium insert in the handle of the dammy/nickel-silver handle.

 

[Frank-H]

I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, " , " , " , " , ... ... ... ...


Frank H.

 

[GigOne]

3 Gunhammers

WOW !

 

[T.K.C.]

Thanks for the awesome pix!! WOW! Be still my beating heart!! I can't wait to get my GH-MT And AXD-NG!! Man, oh man, what fantastic knives he makes! AWESOME pix!! THANKS for sharing!

 

[brianml]

OMG! Amazing work. The tritium insert in the handle is amazing. I need to have it on my MT. WOW! DDR has become the top custom folder maker on the market .

 

[Joss]

Thanks for all the pics. I have to say, I love the minimax... I'm not a big fan of the gun-hammers, but that doesn't prevent me from enjoying the obvious skill and artistry.

 

[RogerP]

Thanks for all the great pics!

Roger

 

[Chefget]

Wow!

I must have a Damascus Gunhammer!

-Michael

 

[Bruce Bump]

Whew! That was dazzling! Thanks for the cool pics!

 

[Matteo Escobar]

Those balis look awesome!! Darrel is extremely talented!

 

[Larry B.]

Great looking knives and great pictures also. Thx

 

[Physics]

That is some of the best knife pr0n I've ever seen. My hands are sweaty and my heart is pounding. If I was a smoker I'd be lighting up right now.

 

[Dirk]

I wish I could have gone! I get to see a lot of these knives out at Darrel's, but they just take on a different aura at a big show!