Some pics from Boise knife show

[bbingenheimer]

Here are some pics from the Rocky Mountain knife show. Hope you enjoy.

John Doyle Best New Maker.

John Conway Best Fighter

Bill Burke Best Bowie

Mike Queenensbury Best Hunter / Best Hand Forged / Best Damascus

I was not able to catch the other winner's.
I will post more pics of the show later this week.

Bruce
MLazyB Custom Knives
ABS Journeyman Smith

 

[Kevin Jones]

Thanks for the photos Bruce.
Would love to see close-ups of the Burke and Conway if anyone has photos.

I hope these photos were taken before the show was open to the public.
Anyone, how was attendance and sales?

 

[RogerP]

Thaks very much for the pics - would love to see more.

Roger

 

[Erik Fritz]

Attendance I felt was really good sales for me were great it was the best knife show i have ever had other than Blade 2 years ago. It was a fun show and I look for it to get even better in the comeing years.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Thanks for the photos Bruce.
Would love to see close-ups of the Burke and Conway if anyone has photos.

Me, too! As well as the Queensbury winners.
Please!

 

[Boggs]

Bruce..


Thanks for the photo's........but were are the photo's of yours...post a few

 

[Kevin Jones]

Me, too! As well as the Queensbury winners.Please!

I didn't include Mike's as I assumed we had already seen his in the thread he posted. But now after taking a closer look at the photo above I see we haven't seen one of his winners.

Actaully, I would like to every knife at the show. There were certainly lots fine knives there.

 

[bbingenheimer]

All the pics I took were before the Rush. Trust me it was busy all day Saturday. Sunday was only slightly slower. Not a typical sunday showing as of late. Here we go with table holder pics. I don't remember all the names but will try.

Bruce & Kay Bump ( By the way their table was right across from mine)

Gary House That is one really nice sword by the way.

Ed Fowler (trying to steel Mike Rader's girlfriend)

Bev and Rick Lucas ( not sure on the other gentleman)

 

[Kyle Royer]

Thanks for the pictures.

Hey Mike, that looks like a fine trio of awards you have there.

 

[bbingenheimer]

Here is the last of my pics. Sorry I didn't get more knives, After all it is also about the people too. Thanks for viewing and all the nice coments.

Bill Amrouex not talking

Ray Richards in front of his always wonderful knives.

How often will you get 3 Bruce B's at a knife show.


This was one of those show's that I will remember for a long time. Had way to much fun. I got to make new friends a meet with old ones.

Bruce (Bing) Bingenheimer
MLazyB Custom Knives
ABS Journeyman Smith

 

[Burl Source]

I had lots of fun at the show as well.
In addition to the forum members who had tables, there were quite a few of them in the crowd. I lost count after a few dozen introduced themselves. It was a lot of fun getting to meet so many people from the forum. Plus the sales made Boise my best show yet. There is no question whether I will be attending next year. I had no complaints whatsoever. Dave did a great job organizing and promoting and made this a great show.

Save that picture of Bill or nobody will believe you.

 

[Bruce Bump]

We were missing the other "BB" Bill Burke
Thanks for the pictures Bruce!
What a nice show to go to, cant wait until next year.

 

[deloid]

Ray Richards in front of his always wonderful knives.

I think that's Wade Colter wearing the cowboy hat and dark blue behind Ray.

 

[Ed Fowler]

This was the best first time show I have ever attended. Visitors kept coming in right up to the closing bell, only one make left early.

The folks who came to the show were a super freiendly bunch of people, thanking us for coming to their show, I can't rememver visitors making that statement in that volume for a long time. There were very few slack times.

I don't know how many new makers with very honest working knives came to my table and asked for my opinion but there were a lot. This question was normally prefaced with "Please don't sugar coat it, I want to know what you honestly think." While they appreciated the good thoughts, they actually wanted to know how to make them work better both by design and construction.

We plan to go back next year, the promoters of the show really worked at making it a good one. Lodging prices were the lowest I have seen in years. There was a gun show and flea market going on at the same time, the promotors of the show had a table at the gun show selling tickets to the knife show for half price, there was a lot of advertising and it seemed like the whole city knew about the knife show going on.

It was a real down home atmosphere show for us and I believe there was a knife there for anyone who wanted one to fit their needs and pocket book. Dwight Towell, and Bernard Sparks were there with their wives, I have not seen them at a show for years and visiting their knives and them was good times for me.

I am working on a new computer that is without spell check so apologise for any spelling errors.

 

[Michael Rader]

Nice pictures Bing. And I don't worry too much about Kim and Ed as he has pretty much been a dad to her the last twenty+ years. And, she is a crack shot with her S&W .38....

The show was pretty good and if you didn't go this year, you probably should next year. I'm thinking that all the guys from Washington should rent a bus, as there were a bunch from our neck of the woods.

 

[Andy Franco]

The show was good for me as well and was pleasantly surprised on how many people continued to come through the doors. I look forward to attending next year also.