Harrisonburg Show

Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith

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I'm back from the show. Really good show this year. I did well.
I took about 30 Ron Frazier knives as well as a large collection of his memorabilia and photos. Quite a few of the nicer ones were sold before I took the photos.
I also took my Bill Moran collection of blades and other forged things as well as his catalogs and other personal items.

You can see the colored bins I store, transport, and display my wood and ivory in. I have six tables plus a free table (not set up yet in the photos) that is never used next to me. I still don't have room for everything to fit on the tables.

I took a stack of plastic explorer's hats to give to kids who came with their parents.

I love the SVKC. I decided that I would donate 10% of all Frazier knife sales to the Shenandoah Valley Knife Club. They got $385.00. I also took up a bag full of Ron's arrowheads he collected over his life. I sold them for $5-$15 each and gave all that to the club.
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Shot of a new nikiri in stainless san-mai. The edge area looks like a crazy hamon. Other is an atypical katana I call 13th Warrior. It has 1300 layers of damascus with every 13th layer 52100. Koshirae is sterling and gold. Habaki says "13" on both sides in gold inlay and kashira says "samurai" the same way. Munuki on both sides says, "13th samaurai".

Behind the 13th Warrior is a WW2-Korea era Mameluke with original case.

Notice the table covers. The cloth is all sorts of photos of folders and folder diagrams.
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Very cool pieces Stacy and your show set up looks very clean and classy. Nicely done 👍
 
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