SHOW TIME: Displaying our collection for the Buck Collectors

Great pictures and stories and thanks David for being such a great ambassador to the club.
 
Great collection pictures, David. Thanks for sharing them with us.
I've never been to a gun show with a Buck display. Hope to change that some day.

John
 
soldier, thanks. Which is the point several have made. At decent size city shows you just don't see such. One has to go to regional shows (Las Vegas Shot Show) or the Blade Show in Atlanta in-order to see a display of any sort. This is why people stop and stare as they've never seen such at a Gun & Knife show. Which makes it fun. DM
 
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This show is a good show, but like many that are always somewhere that is "regional" and hard to gather up a group of Buck knife people to get together. The guys pictured with Dave are great collectors and appreciate other Buck guys visiting. Dave doesn't tell you the group running the show still charge him the full price of a sales table when he is mainly a collection display. His wife sells a few scrimshaw items but to represent BCCI he pays $100+ to have a table. I talked and Dave has talked several times to the show officials to offer a use a free area and Buck folks would really put up a display, but they are a charity organization and want every dollar. BCCI would likely even support a display area with some payment but they didn't really seem to care as gun sellers were on a waiting list to get a table. At about the time I went down there we had hopes a big knife show was going to start up in Dallas and a big BCCI display area would sprout roots, but Dallas was not friendly with show developers and they took it back east. If I would buy a ticket and win the lottery, by golly we would have a knife show a little more in the middle of the southwest where it would be easier to get some of the big collections to be displayed and a big BCCI presence would occur. But, I guess I actually will need to buy a ticket for that to happen.

Anyhow, that NM show is worth the entry fee if you feel like taking a trip and seeing that part of the SW. I bet David will even send you some info on it if you contact him. I haven't gone back because I have been spending my 900 mile debit on deer hunting Colorado before my knees wore out. Which this year I will have to say they have. No giant muley for my wall.
I am getting older and forgetful and left my orange 422 Bucklite selector at home and ended up with only a 118 and a vantage. But, will have knife photo for Sunday.
300
 
Thank you 300. You always give better information than me. We would seriously consider doing a Dallas or Ft. Worth show if that egg could be hatched. Here we are, loaded and ready to head to the convention center. I tossed while trying to drift off to sleep last night, thinking I'm surely forgetting something. If I can get it under a 6% loss or missing then I call it good. DM
 
Thanks for the pics of your efforts and display, David. The good Lord knows three more would be there to visit and see if it were a wee bit closer.
With that said, is there a list or something of BCCI displays around the country? We are in Michigan but have never heard or seen of shows with BCCI displays with in range. Been to gun/knife shows, etc. Thought about blade show but that is a ways away too and a few extra dollars.
 
Yes, that is a downer. I see the picture you paint. Not much knife displays at Gun & Knife shows, except the larger shows and Oregon. So, if you get a chance to see one at a show, take pictures and visit with them. There is no list of shows where you could find other BCCI members displaying.
Many Buck collectors display at the Blade Show. Buck pays for their table, you just call and get on the list. But the 3 day drive there and back plus meals and motel is a substantial cost. Then the gate fee is 20-25$ a day or 45$ for the weekend. Verses 5$ at a mid-city show. Like 300 said, he wishes he could change this picture. So, I try in my world. DM
 
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wish i could see the end result of all that time and work.....guess i can in pics you post. almost as good as being there or the next best thing to being there. thanks for sharing with us, Sir and doing this.
 
Here I'm sharpening a knife for a security personnel. The 119 is ready to be picked up by a show patron. It is a 4 spacers 119, with the semi-hollow grind. I saw two more of these 'hard to find' models today. They sharpen a little different. DM
 
thanks for sharing more. keep 'em coming. enjoying your pictures of the event.
 
Some show folks stop by for information on Buck products others want to show me their newly acquired knife. DM
 
MAX, There is a Wolverine Knife Club that has a show. If you want a contact up there to email let me know and I will send it PM...

David
If your youngest ever brings that boy to your house to eat, you will have to kill two chickens.

300
 
Here New Mexico State University athletes are required to do a lot of hours of community service, if you want to remain in good standing on the team. And maintain a 3.0 grade point average. So, this time when we were moving in our display boxes there were about half the baseball team asking us if they could help with getting us moved in. A prime time to discuss with them the MLB play-offs. They all had favorites, some the Dodgers some the Cubs and the chatter was lively. One young man was recruited form Kansas and was a Royals fan. Me being a D-Backs and Rangers fan ended up being safe as they were already eliminated. Otherwise one of them could have 'accidentally dropped' one of my display boxes. Ha. It started out fun. DM
 
300, no fake. I thought about that. But he could pay it back by cutting wood or digging fence post holes. He's a recent CJ graduate. DM
 
Here I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on a knife. This is the final stag of sharpening--honing on a hard leather strop, loaded with slurry. The grit I applied to this leather is at 300 and through use it is worked / ground finer. The stropping is done lightly across it. It's in this manner that it helps with removing the burr and refining the edge.
I need to do an article in the Collectors Newsletter on this technique. I had better move on as the doors open at 8 am. A wonderful day here today. DM
 
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