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Kohai999

Kohai999

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Kyle Royer got BOTH the George Peck award, AND the Moran Award.

Rodriggo Sfreddo got the B.R. Hughes award for MS.

Wally Hayes, MS was sold out before hitting the floor yesterday.

R.J. Martin reports good sales, maybe slightly down from last year, won the Blade Tactical Folder(Handmade) Award....(I got's a lotta cell phone numbers, lol)

Will add to it as it is reported in.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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Kyle Royer got BOTH the George Peck award, AND the Moran Award.
Rodriggo Sfreddo got the B.R. Hughes award for MS.
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Congrats to both...although this is no surprise to me and many others I think.

Marcel
 
Thanks for the info David i hate to hear that. I was really pulling for Bill nice guy. Once again thanks.:thumbup:
 
Mike Ruth won Best Bowie.

Jimmy Chin picked up the Best Damascus award, and also his Master Smith Stamp.

I had to leave before the show awards were officially announced - heard about those two from the makers themselves.

Also new Master Smiths: Lin Rhea, Brion Tomberlin, Rodrigo Sfreddo, Billy Bob Sowell.

Attendance was noticeably down for the Friday - a lot of poeple thought the same.

I don't know about sales overall - not there long enough to get a real good picture. A lot of the guys who usually sell out on a Friday did so again, but there were some very good makers who usually do quite well (if not a clean sellout) who as of Friday night had sold few or none.

Memorable pieces:

1) Sfreddo's dagger. :eek: :eek: :eek:

2) Kyle's subhilt. :thumbup: :thumbup:

3) Burt Foster's laminated fighter (that was a delivery for Thor - lucky bastid!) :):) Burt could have sold that knife five times over.

4) Daniel Winkler's Indian gunstock war club, hand painted and decorated by Karen Shook - why don't we have a drooling icon?

My haul included a damascus Persian fighter by Bailey Bradshaw, a couple pieces by Dan Farr, featuring his new carbon fibre reinforced walnut burl and the brand new Crucible forging steel, CrewForge V. Too cool. I also picked up the ambonya bowie from Matt Gregory that he has posted previously and a little piece I absolutely fell in love with the instant I picked it up: Kyle Royer's first slipjoint (clip point blade of O1 with damascus bolsters and creamy walrus ivory scales).

I have VERY few pics, as I was only there for Thursday and the half-day Friday (not a good day to try for table pics as makers are pretty focussed on trying to make early sales) and for not even half an hour after opening this morning.

CKCA dinner was a fun and classy event that I very much enjoyed, though I had to leave shortly after the meal.

Met some new forumintes (JParanee is a cool dude) and got together with some old forumites, but missed some of the guys I really enjoy hanging with, like Garsson, Gill, Riad and a few others.

Even in what may be viewed by some as an off year, Blade rocks like no other.

Roger
 
Some updated awards:

Best Tactical: R.J. Martin

Best Sword: Vince Evans

Most Innovative: Dan Winkler

Best Hunter: J.R. Cook

Best Art Knife: Tim Hancock

Best Fixed Blade: Jerry Fisk

Best Fighter: Harvey Dean

My peeps tell me traffic picked up significantly on Saturday. :thumbup:

Roger
 
Roger,

Thanks for the info. Did you take a pic of Rodrigo's dagger or do you know if it got photographed, because I'm really interested in what he came up with. A pic of your Persian Fighter would be really nice too.

Hope to see you next year.

Marcel
 
Hi Marcel,

Regrettably, I don't have a pic of Rodrigo's dagger. But I will say that I have rarely seen a knife send such a ripple through the upper ranks of the ABS. No less than about a half-dozen Master Smiths - including the likes of Greg Neely and Ron Newton flagged me down to ask if I had seen that knife. And across the board they raved about his damascus.

I know that the show award knives are photographed as a matter of course, but I'm not sure if the same is true of the ABS awards. If that knife isn't professionally shot, a gross injustice will have been perpetrated on all of knifedom.

I do have a typically crappy show pic of Bailey's Persian dagger which I will post up when I can get some photos resized.

Roger
 
Here you go Marcel:

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Roger
 
Thanks everyone for the updates and congradulations to everyone who put themselves up for testing...pass or not.
Chad
 
I met Kyle (he is a tall drink of water), and took a good look at his blades. That kid has it goin'-on. Nice guy, but way too young to have that much talent. He must have been dreaming about making knives in the delivery room.:)

Spent a good bit of time with Bill Buxton. I have wanted to meet him for some time, and though we didn't discuss pass/fail, I could tell he seemed a little less than exuberant. Great guy who makes some killer stuff.

"Shrek"......., or Brother Fritz is a class act. His blades were first class also.

So many new friends as well as spending time with old acquaintances. Man, what a ride.

Robert
 
Hello from Atlanta!!

Rodrigo had his knives photographed just before the came to the states, but may not be able to post for a few days. Maybe someone got some good snapshots before any were taken away. It was an honor to get to see such fine work. Just wait till you see them.

It's one Blade Show that I will not soon forget. Lin
 
I'm slated to shoot all five of Jimmy Chin's MS set tomorrow morning. (He laughingly was cursing Rodrigo. He said there was talk that had Rodrigo not shown up he may have been tops. Jimmy(from Taiwan) is fluent in English and has a great sense of humor.)

Brion's set is drool worthy, indeed. Jimmy has to work HARD to exceed his pieces!

I shot a passing JS set for a maker 'Quesenberry' (Apologies, I don't even know his frist name.) I WILL say his knives were extraordinarly clean. WOW!

We have been swamped with work since thursday night. I have spent every hour in the studio room, and I have yet to be able to venture into the show. I have knives and deliveries when I return in the morning. Busy like crazy!

Susan and I walked over on thursday night and wished Eric and Beth a successful show at the Point Seven studios. They have been even busier than us, as he is putting in the LATE hours producing prints at the show.

There has been a number of folks who just came by just to say hi. Gus, Gig, Ren, So-Lo, AG Russell, and so many others I can't remember. :(

I'll be away till tuesday or later. Photos in a week or more.
 
Oh yeah,

Gus Cecchini (GTC Knives) told me he came with 19 knives or so. 12 for delivery, and he sold all but two by friday afternoon. I am sure they all went by today.

Why am I not surprised? :D

Coop
 
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