The Art Knife Invitational, 2005

Awesome review of the show. Wish I could have gone.

BTW, I doubt the Tut Dagger was for sale, but I heard Fire and Ice was supposed to be for sale. What was the asking price? Did it sell?
 
Steven, Like everyone said,great review.Thanks for it and will we be seeing you gracing the cover of GQ soon? :confused: Seriously,thanks for posting. leatherbird.
 
Steven Roos said:
Awesome review of the show. Wish I could have gone.

BTW, I doubt the Tut Dagger was for sale, but I heard Fire and Ice was supposed to be for sale. What was the asking price? Did it sell?
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Indeed the Tut Dagger is not for sale, nor will it be while PL is alive and sentient, give me a couple days to find out about Fire and Ice.

Thanks to all who have weighed in, much appreciated.

This show is not as daunting as many have intimated. Had I been picked for all I dropped on would have been in excess of $60,000, but was NOT picked for anything.

Still a great show. Hedge your bets and show up, you will not be dissappointed.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Great write up ....... buts I's gots to have pictures ....especially of the Hancocks, and your suit!:D

Stephen
 
Great review,Steven.You have fine writing skills.This was better than 95% of the articles that come out of the knife mag's.Is it true that the knife makers (?guild) pick who will display their knives?Also who decides which customers get to go?
 
ROBB said:
Great review,Steven.You have fine writing skills.This was better than 95% of the articles that come out of the knife mag's.Is it true that the knife makers (?guild) pick who will display their knives?Also who decides which customers get to go?
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Thanks for the kind words.

There are 25 knifemakers featured in the AKI. When someone retires, or passes away, they vote on who should replace that person. I am not sure how the actual mechanics work.

To attend as a customer you just have to ask to go. I believe that the ceiling for paying customers is 175, but in the 10 shows that they have done, they have not exceeded their number, turning customers away has not happened yet. It does cost 150.00 to get through the door.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Steven et al,

Thanks for a great experience. It was my first show and Steven let me tag along. Meeting all the exceptional makers was incredible and the quality of the work was beyond my wildest expectations.

Dietmar Kressler is a true gentleman and it was great talking with you about your shop exploits!

We shot lots of cool video and will find ways to share with all soon.

-Adam
 
Steven Roos said:
I'm not sure if you can buy tickets at the door as the event is catered.
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Understood, but I planned my trip early enough that if I had my head together, I'd like to think I would have found a way to get there.
 
Great report Steven. too bad there are no images available to be viewed.
Just one point in reference to the knife that Wolfe put up for "open bid".

This knife is NOT the one on the cover of Blade. That particular knife was sold to a dealer who in turn sold it to a collector. The folder for open bid, while perhaps similar (no abalone inlays though) was a different and newer knife first viewed by attendees of the CKG show Oct. 19, 2005. At least this is the word given to me when I chatted with Wolfe at the time.
 
Murray White said:
Great report Steven. too bad there are no images available to be viewed.
Just one point in reference to the knife that Wolfe put up for "open bid".

This knife is NOT the one on the cover of Blade. That particular knife was sold to a dealer who in turn sold it to a collector.
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Well, Murray, I am a writer, not a photgrapher. Maybe you will come down from "up north" and do your magic in 2007? I don't even own a camera.

Never said the knife was on the cover of Blade, I wrote "Knives Illustrated". If it is not the same knife, I will take your word for it, and have amended my write up. Thanks for taking the time to correct this error.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
you are right it was KI. We can try to turn you into a photographer too lol. Anyone that writes as well as you can learn the camera I'm sure. One day I will get down to one of the AKI shows. Still have not gotten to a blade show yet either so those are a couple of the majors that i have not attended. I wonder if anyone did some photos of the knives.
 
Steven Roos said:
I heard Fire and Ice was supposed to be for sale. What was the asking price? Did it sell?
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Steven,

Good question about Fire and Ice, it is not even a question that entered my mind at the AKI. AFIK, it did not sell at the show, but is rumored to be for sale in the neighborhood of a cool $100k.:eek: Anyone interested could probably contact Julie Warenski for particulars, but I don't know for sure.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
It must be hard for the maker to justify investing that much into a piece that is not pre-sold...
 
Kohai999 said:
Good question about Fire and Ice, it is not even a question that entered my mind at the AKI. AFIK, it did not sell at the show, but is rumored to be for sale in the neighborhood of a cool $100k.:eek: Anyone interested could probably contact Julie Warenski for particulars, but I don't know for sure.
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One hundred thousand sounds right where I thought it would be. I've got to call Julie anyway, I can ask her myself. I know she's got to be selling it for its owner.
 
Joss said:
It must be hard for the maker to justify investing that much into a piece that is not pre-sold...
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Are you talking about the Warenski? If so, it is already owned by a private party, it is just being offered for sale by Julie.

If you mean another piece, I'd say the AKI is the best place to have an ultra-high end piece on the table. People travel from all over the world to attend the show.
 
I did a search on 'Fire and Ice'. This is all I got. Good article.

In 1997, Warenski created Fire and Ice, a knife of solid 18-karat gold inlaid with diamonds and rubies. Its sinuous lines and bilateral symmetry mark it unmistakably as a Warenski. "I draw all the time," he says, "and usually I'll combine several sketches into a finished design before I begin the three-dimensional work. Then I'll give it the time it needs."

In the case of Fire and Ice, that meant half a year of painstaking labor. Warenski cast molten gold in a hand-carved steel mold and cold-forged the blade to its basic form. The serpentine gold guard was cast by the ancient lost-wax process and the handle ground into shape from a large crystal of Brazilian quartz before the jewels were set. His wife, Julie, then devoted three months to hand-finishing Fire and Ice, using a microscope to help her engrave arabesques in the guard and pommel. Along the length of the knife's gold sheath she applied densely chromatic areas of enamel. Such attention to detail makes these knives highly prized by collectors; another of Warenski's gold knives, Gem of the Orient, which he made in 1991, was resold by a Japanese collector that same year for an enormous profit. The collector's asking price: $1.3 million.
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Forget that, what about 'Gem of the Orient', selling for 1.3 million... :eek:

Coop
 
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