My wife and I just got in awhile ago from the Oregon Knife Collectors Assoc. knife show in Eugene Oregon and wow what a great time we had.
Met some new friends as well as got together and spoke to some old friends. I met "Oregon" and had some great conversation with him as well as his son. What a couple of great gentleman and extremely knowledgeable.
I am glad I finally had a chance to meet him.
I met some of the individuals I have dealt with online or over the phone over the years and shook some hands of some great people.
Saturday evening my wife and I had a fantastic dinner and conversation with Bruce Dollinger and his grandson, Leroy Remer and Heath Stone, as well as Steve and Karen McGrath and their daughter whom are fellow BCCI members. All fantastic top notch individuals. I thank them for including my wife and I in their evening.
I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday helping out at the BCCI sales table and sold a few of my knives as well as displayed some of my collection along with some of Bruce's. I have never displayed any of my knives before and literally grabbed some of my knives along with a few display cases I had and took off not knowing how much space I had or what it would end up looking like. The end result I think was pretty good.
I also had a chance in between helping out at the BCCI table to go out and do some searching around at the 360 tables of knives and came up with a few great Buck knife finds which I could not walk away from so now I have some more subjects for future Sunday Picture Shows.
It amazed me how many people came up to our table and asked about or talked about Chuck Buck and the Buck family. Chuck has touched so many people in his life it absolutely amazes me. His life was truly successful.
I only took a few pictures so we will have to bug "Oregon" to post some of the pictures he took while there.