I would like to thank Les Robertson for all his excellent and accurate comments regarding shows and the internet. Les, your comment about sales at shows being good or bad based on the "personal economy of the collector" rather than the economy of the country is the way I see it too. I plan on attending the Santa Barbara show in April and while the economy in general might tend to make me spend less, I will still buy if something exceptional is for sale and I can afford it. I might even enter a lottery and get a knife I can sell immediately to a "custom knife entrepreneur" and make a couple hundred bucks. If I'm really lucky I'll go home with a Steve Hoel medium coke bottle, brand new from Mr. Hoel. Or a custom Onion, or a Boguszewski to add to the collection. I may go home empty handed, but the show will have been worthwhile anyway. While pictures on the internet are great there is nothing like getting up close and personal with the knives and makers.
On another note, isn't the new Boston show going to conflict time wise with the already established and worthy Plaza Cutlery show? That's the only negative as far as I can see.
