Knives 2010 My first appearance

BrianThie

BrianThie

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Hi All

I got my Knives 2010 several days ago, and as I always do since I have been submitting photos, I went to the photo index to see if I had been published. I was a bit disappointed to not find my name, especially since I had been told by several that they saw me in there. I just wrote it off to me being confused with Brian Tighe.

Any way, I was looking through the book tonight and although omitted from the photo directory, you may find a knife of my creation on page 118.

Please forgive me for tooting my own horn, but I am a bit excited about this appearance.

Thanks
Brian

ps don't forget to pencil this in on your directory ;)
 
Good for YOU, Brian. Joe Kertzman tells me the photo index was last year's, not this year. A complete mess, and he knows it. Too late now.

It's a beauty!

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
Good for YOU, Brian. Joe Kertzman tells me the photo index was last year's, not this year. A complete mess, and he knows it. Too late now.

It's a beauty!

Coop
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yep,

unfortunately My name didn't show up either

happily two of my knife photos did

page 103 and 114

:-)
 
Congratulatios Brian. It appears that quite a few of the makers that hang around these parts got into Knives 2010.
 
Brian,
Just made a quick visit to your website and have to say you sure earned that journeyman rating. VERY NICE.
CP
 
Congats Brian! I need to get my copy too. I heard I have a bowie in there. I wonder if they will go on sale soon because of the screw up.
 
Bruce Bump said:
Congats Brian! I need to get my copy too. I heard I have a bowie in there. I wonder if they will go on sale soon because of the screw up.
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Amazon has had them for at least a week or two. IIRC, you have a fighter with a firestorm pattern lookin' blade in the book.:thumbup:
 
Two photos of my work showed up (pages 58 and 98) in this issue. But take note, the photo index shows the same pages as last year. everyone who has a knife photo in both 2009 and 2010 will have the same page numbers as the '09 listing.

When will they get this thing together? For the extremely small amount of text involved in only 312 pages, the proportion of errors is simply incredible. They need to get some real, professional editors on board. As usual, one of the two photos of my knives has my name mispelled: Vendeventer instead of Vandeventer. How do they do that in the same issue?.

And, two years is way to long a waiting period for knives to be featured. No wonder files get messed up, lost, transposed. Anybody here see their name attatched to the wrong photo this time around? That's been a rampant error in past issues. I didn't notice any glaring examples, so maybe they've fixed that. Other publishers don't have that kind of lag time with far fewer mistakes. At $29.99 retail the book is seriously overpriced. I hope next year they do better.

No more coffee for me this morning!

Cheers,

Terry


Terry L. Vandeventer
ABS MS
 
Congratulations Brian! It is kind of a kick isn't it?

I didn't know that they had used the photo index from last year. I thought that they had just left Charlie and I out of it, but included some of our knives. We didn't make the book last year at all but were in for several years before, but that was our fault for not getting pictures submitted. In other years they have left out the state listings, put some states in twice, left knives out of the index, miss numbered knives all kinds of stuff. To me it would be just as good without an index. Doesn't matter, it's still a great book and I buy it every year. The pictures are fantastic. All you have to do to appreciate this book is get out an old one and look through all the black and white photos.

In another life I had a group that put out a telephone directory every year. All you have to be is one number off and rather than the police dept you get a little old lady on Oak Street. You check everything and more than once. Yellow page ads are the worst. It takes time and people to do it right and it is expensive. Errors are something you can’t accept. With a book like Knives 2010 an error just doesn't cost you much except a little embarrassment. Most people other than those that hang around places like this will never know. So I guess they just don't worry about it.

I only got a brief look but it looks like to me they have gotten away from the "cute" remarks and are actually providing some information about the knives. If this is true throughout the book that alone will be a great improvement in my opinion.
 
Congrats Brian. Look at it this way - if they were going to omit something, better your name in the photo index than the actual photo of your knife. No doubt they'll fix it next year.

Roger
 
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