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Here's a mini-review that I posted in the "Who's Going to Solvang" thread, which probably deserves it's own. I was dead tired when I posted last night, never thinking that a new thread was obviously more appropriate. So with that, we can let the old thread die!
I didn't really follow all of the makers as much as I would have needed to in order to give a good report. But I got to meet several forumites including Martin Reingold, Thor Heine, Win Heger, Ron Lawson, Dave Ellis - all guys I wanted to meet but hadn't. We all enjoyed it and ourselves - superb time.
Spoke with Dave Nittinger again, Don, Hume, Bruce Voyles, Jim Pardee, Don Guild, Walter Hoffman, Paul Shindler, Mark Strauss, of course, Dave Harvey. And lotsa others. Hard to remember everyone I saw again.
I also finally met Phil Lobred. Talked for probably a couple hours - quality time about one of our favorite subjects. Look forward to more of the same.
Also, I was happy to meet Wolfgang Loerchner for the first time - along with his wonderful daughter - being that he lived close to where my forebearers settled in Canada. And he let me practice a little of the few words I happened to remember from when I was once fluent in German. We had a very nice chat about the forum and both our interests in it.
I don't know who sold this or who sold that. But as to whether my favorite maker did well - he sold out all of his Solvang knives on the first draw. And then as soon as the dealer stuff came out to sell, he had four others he brought with him - and they all sold out. Sounds like "successful" to me.
A really good crowd, alot of excellent knives. Alot of the makers put out some special effort on their pieces - and what I was hearing from people was that the show hit the mark.
It absolutely made a very, very good transition from show to invitational, in both the knives and feel of the show as a whole.
And did people swap drop tickets - Duh. Dave Harvey included instructions in the envelopes that asked people not to do it, but I suppose once the genie is out, it's hard to re-bottle.
I was shocked at how many people, incuding forumites here, had never seen the book "500 Knives". It may not be Dr David Darom's quality production, but it is a seminal display of some hot, hot knives. It's a no brainer purchase, but many didn't even know of it's existence. And Dave Harvey even sells 'em at Nordic Knives.
Oh, almost forgot. I dropped for around 10 knives, won none the first round. Second round, someone must have already been broke from the first round - because I went away the drawn #2 winner on something cool.
ps: If you haven't seen the fighter jet pic on the "Who's Going to Solvang" thread, ya gotta!
EDIT: Let me add that I am pretty sure Tim Hancock and Larry Fuegen sold out. Tim's primary catalog knife was a San Francisco Gold Rush knife at $8500. A friend got drawn on it. And another friend got drawn on another one. Both made the purchase. Another friend found that one of Larry Fuegen's hunters was "speaking to him" and he got that one. Wow!
Bob Betzner
I didn't really follow all of the makers as much as I would have needed to in order to give a good report. But I got to meet several forumites including Martin Reingold, Thor Heine, Win Heger, Ron Lawson, Dave Ellis - all guys I wanted to meet but hadn't. We all enjoyed it and ourselves - superb time.
Spoke with Dave Nittinger again, Don, Hume, Bruce Voyles, Jim Pardee, Don Guild, Walter Hoffman, Paul Shindler, Mark Strauss, of course, Dave Harvey. And lotsa others. Hard to remember everyone I saw again.
I also finally met Phil Lobred. Talked for probably a couple hours - quality time about one of our favorite subjects. Look forward to more of the same.
Also, I was happy to meet Wolfgang Loerchner for the first time - along with his wonderful daughter - being that he lived close to where my forebearers settled in Canada. And he let me practice a little of the few words I happened to remember from when I was once fluent in German. We had a very nice chat about the forum and both our interests in it.
I don't know who sold this or who sold that. But as to whether my favorite maker did well - he sold out all of his Solvang knives on the first draw. And then as soon as the dealer stuff came out to sell, he had four others he brought with him - and they all sold out. Sounds like "successful" to me.
A really good crowd, alot of excellent knives. Alot of the makers put out some special effort on their pieces - and what I was hearing from people was that the show hit the mark.
It absolutely made a very, very good transition from show to invitational, in both the knives and feel of the show as a whole.
And did people swap drop tickets - Duh. Dave Harvey included instructions in the envelopes that asked people not to do it, but I suppose once the genie is out, it's hard to re-bottle.
I was shocked at how many people, incuding forumites here, had never seen the book "500 Knives". It may not be Dr David Darom's quality production, but it is a seminal display of some hot, hot knives. It's a no brainer purchase, but many didn't even know of it's existence. And Dave Harvey even sells 'em at Nordic Knives.
Oh, almost forgot. I dropped for around 10 knives, won none the first round. Second round, someone must have already been broke from the first round - because I went away the drawn #2 winner on something cool.
ps: If you haven't seen the fighter jet pic on the "Who's Going to Solvang" thread, ya gotta!
EDIT: Let me add that I am pretty sure Tim Hancock and Larry Fuegen sold out. Tim's primary catalog knife was a San Francisco Gold Rush knife at $8500. A friend got drawn on it. And another friend got drawn on another one. Both made the purchase. Another friend found that one of Larry Fuegen's hunters was "speaking to him" and he got that one. Wow!
Bob Betzner
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