stories from behind the table

Speaking of bleeding on tables. At the Blade west show a guy walks up to the table holding his thumb. He had stuck his hand on his pocket and his assisted opener had opened. Well he proceeded to bleed all over the place. He kept trying to lick the blood to stop the bleeding. Finally I handed him a rag and some band aids. Told him to go to the bathroom and clean up. He reached out with a bloody hand to shake mine. I tried to be nice but decline the offer. He then began to explain he had just gotten over HEP C:eek:. I ran to the bathroom to wash off any possible splatter. I told him to PLEASE keep the rag.
 
Dave, do something- quick!
This thread has devolved to blood and guts! (or contents thereof)
Anyone have a story that doesn't involved severed flesh or vomit?

Like, are there chicks at knife shows? Anyone ever get a little frisky business under the table at a slow show?:D
 
This stuff is cracking me up. Lorien there is a trend at Knife shows a lot of tactical maker use it they will get a very very nice looking girl to stand behind there table and show folks there knives its like using bait to catch fish all the tables have knives on them some of the knives just look a little better. it's like this your hungary you want to eat there is a 100 tables with hamburgers but one of the tables has a hamburger and a beer. I looked at a lot of tactical knives at blade last year they where all very busty I mean nice.
 
Les -- next time say " you know the really tough thing about making these knives?" of course he will say "wha?t". "the difficulty was in figuring out all the different names I should put on them"
 
Lorien said:
Dave, do something- quick!
This thread has devolved to blood and guts! (or contents thereof)
Anyone have a story that doesn't involved severed flesh or vomit?
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It just seems to happen so often......At the Guild show in Louisville in '09 I picked up a sliplock on Ken Coats table and while closing it the little bugger bit me. Not to badly but Ken thought this was hilarious and had a good chuckle.

An hour later he was looking for a band aid because the same knife bit him!!:D
 
fisk said:
Harvey Dean, Neely and myself were at a knife and gun show sharing a table in Austin Texas just to get out a bit years ago. Some guy was looking at Harveys knives and projectile vomited half chewed hot dogs on his table and knives.
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Guess he didn't like Harvey's knives! :eek::p;):D
 
I was at a knife show with my wife last year and it was her first one. She didnt have alot of experience but I gave her some ground rules about not touching things and dont touch the edges and we were off to the show. Now though its her first knife show she's been learning about steels, handle materials, ht's etc from me working in my shop and teaching her while hunting etc.

We come up to a table (cant remember the maker) and she looks at one of the knives and goes "oooow thats really pretty" and a guy next to her goes "yeah and its sharp and made of steel too!". I go to say something smartass back and she says "So do you forge these or stock remove? I really like what you did with the ricasso here. What RC do you usually bring them to?"

The guy's jaw dropped a bit and I saw the maker behind the table smirk at the guy and say "thank you for noticing" and goes on to tell her about the knives he makes. When the gentleman left the maker told her how some people should just keep comments to themselves and that the guy probably couldnt find a ricasso with a magnet and a map.

She walked around with pep in her step the rest of the show and proceded to tell me how much she likes going to these things. Longwinded story I know but its one of those things that's much funnier in person and reminded me why I married her....guess she really does pay attention to me :D
 
I saw Paul Baasch at many shows. He always had a pocket full of knives, inexpensive but good quality. To a boy or girl, he'd hold out two hands and say, pick one. They would, he'd open his hand and in there would be a knife. If there were two kids, the knife in the second hand when to the second child. They'd look at them and he'd ask the adult "OK if they keep 'em?" It's a treasured experience. For the kids I've had with me, (now adults or teenagers) they all still have the knife and remember Paul...the bear of a man, with the heart of a child.
 
D lisch said:
This stuff is cracking me up. Lorien there is a trend at Knife shows a lot of tactical maker use it they will get a very very nice looking girl to stand behind there table and show folks there knives its like using bait to catch fish all the tables have knives on them some of the knives just look a little better. it's like this your hungary you want to eat there is a 100 tables with hamburgers but one of the tables has a hamburger and a beer. I looked at a lot of tactical knives at blade last year they where all very busty I mean nice.
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:)Sometimes this can be done in reverse as well. I remember quite well a beautiful woman and her husband coming to my table at a show in Fort Smith. The lady was wearing a very lowcut and loose fitting blouse and proceeded to bend over my table for the next 5-10 minutes in order to show off her new enhancement surgery (every bit of it). Her husband must have been proud of the outcome of the surgery as well as he had no problems with her showing them (I mean it) to a stranger. :rolleyes: Sure was difficult to talk knives with that kind of distraction.
 
hubba hubba!
 
This thread has turned into the news channel!!!

If it bleeds, it leads..........interspersed w/sex commercials!!!! :eek:
 
brownshoe said:
I saw Paul Baasch at many shows. He always had a pocket full of knives, inexpensive but good quality. To a boy or girl, he'd hold out two hands and say, pick one. They would, he'd open his hand and in there would be a knife. If there were two kids, the knife in the second hand when to the second child. They'd look at them and he'd ask the adult "OK if they keep 'em?" It's a treasured experience. For the kids I've had with me, (now adults or teenagers) they all still have the knife and remember Paul...the bear of a man, with the heart of a child.
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Of all my favorite show experiences, Paul giving my son a knife, is one of my favorites. The kid doesn't know how legendary it is yet but he does understand it was something really cool! A few years later a friend of mine was reading my latest knife magazine and Billy peeked over his shoulder and seeing a pic of Paul, said "I know that guy!" :D
 
Folks, hello. I am not a frequent passer-by of this forum, but I do "stop in" a few times a week (5-6) to read and try to gain more knowledge than I have accumlated in my short 6 months on the forum & in my short 50+ years on this planet. I would consider myself a passing neighbor, not a "lurker" (picture midnight black/behind a big oak tree/binoculars/black camo/ :) ), not the image I want to conjure to all of you.
However, I just want to say thank you to Mr. D lisch for this thread that has brought back so many wonderful memories & has taken me back to the mid to late 50's of my childhood on a Saturday night at my grandma's house, listening to my grandpa, my dad, & my uncle re-tell that day's hunting trip, me on my knees in the chair with both elbows on the table, all the while grandma yelling at me to get my elbows off . . . :)
I don't have any stories to tell, I am not a custom knife maker, & have just found the wonderful world of custom knives in the last 8-9 months. But I was raised on a farm with a love for the outdoors, for guns, & for knives (still have my first Boy Scout knife from 1959), and have been an avid hunter/camper/ & fishing person all my life, all stemming from being raised on that farm for my first 28 years on this earth.
Again, my sincere apologies for "high jacking" this thread, but I wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate all of you taking the 20-30 minutes each to post each of these stories, & to let each of you know how much it was appreciated by someone outside your profession . . . :thumbup:
Be safe.
 
On the way to Blade Show a couple years ago, I went by the way of Mississippi to see my daughter. Driving back to the hotel for the night, BigAl an I run into a DUI check point. Local officer "We're you ahead?" (Kansas plates) BigAl says "Blade Show!" The officer "Blade Show? Down here we call them knives?":)
So than BigAl says "He's a knife maker" pointing at me.

This cop jumps back like Al just pulled out a gun! And starts studdering.....
"Ya" - "Ya" - ya "GOT"! ... "any with YA!"

BigAl - "Sure"

Officer - " Uh? - uh? Pull over there"

Al pulls the car over pops the trunk, I get out and have a little knife show. Right there in the middle of the night, about six or seven cops with flash lights. Looking at knives........:rolleyes:;)
Had my custom filed rifle with me, showed it to them. Got bunch of Oohs & Aah's, but no sale, they were looking for fix blades.....:grumpy:

But it was a good time, gave them all business cards, shook their hands and said good bye......:):D:thumbup:

Some great stories. - :thumbup:

Thanks!
 
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I once bought a bunch of cheap folders to give to kids, cost me about $.50 cents apiece. I gave one to a young boy abut 6 years old, he was happy about, then later returned to complain about the uneven grind lines and how the blade was not centered.

Turns out his father put him up to it, I offered him the box and let him pick one that he was happy with,he again thanked me, later his dad came by and let me in on the joke, his dad was a folder maker of renown.
 
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