Paris show 2002

flava

flava

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It was quite a busy show, on the first day there were so many people you could hardly move arround. The second day was calmer.
I had the impression that inspite of the big number of visitors, very few were buying knives! There were many full tables even relatively late sunday. This is bad for the future of this show in my opinion.
I had the pleasure to meet Larry from Baldeart. To put it in a short way, he is DA man! I am now the happy owner of this, thanks to Larry:
(just a scan for the moment...)
http://membres.lycos.fr/gmk2000/tnt.jpg

It was a great weekend. Me and my wife had a great time with Sergius Mitin, Gadi and his wife Cecile. I also got to meet Laci Szabo, he is a very pleasant fellow.
I would also like to thank Gadi for this beautiful and interesting Perrin knife that I'm wearing it in the watchpocket right now:

http://membres.lycos.fr/gmk2000/perrin.jpg
 
I'd love to see pics of the stuff presented by Michel Blum, Pierre Reverdy, or Philippe Viallon. I guess I'll have to wait for the next Passion des Couteaux...

JD
 
Unfortunately I have no digital camera so I did not take pictures. Reverdy had a stunning folder called "planet Earth". 6 bilion and something layers damascus (looked almost as homogenuous steel) with a beautifuly carved elephant ivory handle. Carved on the handle was the numbers that represented the number of steel bars, the number of initial folds, the number of added bars, next folds etc... If you did the arithmetics it gave you the number of layers.
Another stunning knife he had was a dagger with carved blue ivory handle (amazing ivory and carving) and a mosaic blade with sheep and dogs figures (I think). Truly stunning piece, integral with carving in steel and handle matching perfectly.
Unfortunately Blum and Viallon were not present :(
 
Glad to hear you had a great time at that Paris Show Flava, sure wish i was in Paris to go there. hehe

I love that Mayo, super hard to get a TNT these days and yours is a real beauty.
BTW i like the other one too.

tnt.jpg


Cheers!
James
 
For those who didn't know it yet. To the best of my knowledge, Michel Blum doesn't make knives anymore. He is now working fulltime with his birds of prey.

And Henry Viallon wasn't present in Paris. At least i didn't see him.

Achim
 
Originally posted by AchimW
To the best of my knowledge, Michel Blum doesn't make knives anymore. He is now working fulltime with his birds of prey.
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Thanks for the info - I didn't know. This is very sad for all knife lovers - he had a unique touch.

JD
 
Flava - thank you for the kind words.

The show was indeed beautiful - and much busier than I expected. I enjoyed both days - but Sunday was the better day - and indeed many makers had many blades still available on Sunday late afternoon - not so good for them - very good for the patient buyer ;)

All in all - I enjoyed it immensely and the best part was meeting Larry and Claudia for dinner - and spending time with Flavius and Serguiz at Flava's house.

a word of advice - if you ever get Flava angry - make sure his dog isn't anywhere near...

As for the Perrin - this is a rare version of his small FB - it's the first warncliff blade I saw by Fred - and I knew it has to go to Flava - being a fan of this blade type and in love with smaller blades...
 
a word of advice - if you ever get Flava angry - make sure his dog isn't anywhere near...

Gadi,

Are you missing a piece of your A$$$????? LOL!!!!!

Sounds like you had a blast. Larry is a TON of fun to be around.



Neil
 
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