Doc,
No blade show for me, this year. after discussing it with my Wife, "we" decided that finances do not allow a vacation this year.
I have never been to the blade show; it has always been one of my desires to attend. i hear nothing but good things about it.
But, there is an East Coast Custom Knife show in New York next month, on March 4,5,6th, which I am planning on sneaking off to. The City is only an hour or so from here,by train, so it is an east trip.