My first show!

Chiro75

Chiro75

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Well, I finally bit the bullet and made it to my first Gun/Knife show. I am not a gun guy at all, but the Quad City Gun and Knife Show was held this weekend, and I was bored, so I went. There were lots of guns I don't know anything about. Not so many knives, unfortunately. A lot of CRAP was abound, with tons of "Japanese" swords as well as the other Home Shopping Netword assortment of crap. Lots of bayonets, but I am not a collector, so I can't tell you what pricing was like. I saw a good number of old Marbles (overpriced) and new ones (overpriced). Lots of Ontario stuff, a smidgeon of Spyderco, lots of Benchmade stuff. Most everything was priced REALLY high. I saw some decent custom work, and a few old EK's, Blackjacks, a Tommy Lee damascus sub-hilt fighter, a beautiful tomahawk with curly maple and siler inlay (they wanted $800!), etc. Not too bad for a 95% gun/4% "knife"/1% knife show!
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My only purchase was an Ontario Black Wind katana that I got NIB for $40. Seemed like a pretty good deal. Anyway, it was interesting, and nothing like a real knife show, I'm sure. I also spotted a NIB Benchmade butterfly of some type. They wanted $150. They had two obvious, total crap, cheap-ass fakes that were stamped with the BM butterfly/bali-song logo, and they were willing to take $100 for either of them. Yeah, right! I definitely knew 10x more about knives than the most knowledgeable fellow there! It was fun, though.

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Sounds great. Glad you had a good time. I've been to lots of gun shows, toy shows, doll shows, record shows, antique shows, reptile shows, and probably plenty more shows than I would care to remember. But I have yet to attend a real live knife show. Hopefully I will catch the Atlanta Blade Show in June (which happens to fall on my birthday).

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It is a sad fate but knives normally take a back seat at the "gun & knife" shows. If you are like me, you love them both. But to see the best knives go to the Blade Show in Atlanta or the Southeastern Custom Knife Show in Winston-Salem. Once you attend one, you'll count he days till the next. It is at these shows that you'll see why knife makers are really artist.
 
Greetings,Chiro57.(Fellow Iowan) I too started going to gun shows back in january,looking for a gotta have knife.I went to the Davenport gun show 1-14-00 aprox. I can relate to what You found,but I find Cedar Rapids show better for 1 reason,a dealer from Straight River Knife Inc. was there.SRK had something for everyone,for Me Sebenzas.Prices were a little higher on factory knives,compaired to internet,but much cheeper than the Davenport show knife dealers IMHO. SRK gave me a break on a decorated sebie at the Dubuque gun show.Made my day & paid for a meal an gas with the savings. SRK has a large inventory of nice quality knives factory-costom. SRK will be at the Cedar Rapids gun show 3-10,11,12-00 Hawkeye Downs fyi.Any great knife shops in the Quad? Good Luck at the shows...Bill
 
Hey Chiro,
I hope you are not too burned on knife shows to come up here to Wisconsin for the Badger show in a few weeks! I think you will have a much better experience.
 
The QC Gun & Knife show was just a warm-up, man! I have National Boards Part III the week before the Badger show (they're on my birthday, of course!
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) and I have to get in touch with the guy I was going to go with, so if everything works out I will still go. I'm excited about attending an actual knife show, although I won't have much money to spend!

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As long as we're on the subject, I'll throw out what will be the first of many invitations to all BF members and their friends to join the TKC-L crowd at the Badger Show for ribs, beer, show-and-tell, and more beer on Saturday night at Damon's, across the parking lot from the Holiday Inn.

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[This message has been edited by Brian_Turner (edited 03-02-2000).]
 
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