Weekend Happenings..... Flint River Knife Club

[VANCE]

This past Saturday Andy opened up the shop for the Flint River Knife Club.
http://www.flintriverknifeclub.com/

There was a lot of noise coming from the shop as i was working on the Friday thread


Allen was welding up the stand for our forge

We had approximately 20-25 people attended w/ some very respected Makers included.

There were knives from various makers on display and available for purchase.

They have a Club knife made every year. The makers range from Hen & Rooster, Boker, Custom makers...this year the honor fell to Case..

sorry the crappy pic doesn't show off the knife better

There was presentations and How-to’s given.

Allen is speaking about his trip to the Loveless shop & giving a demo on how to do “hidden pins” to attach the scales

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Here Allen is giving a demo on how we gle up our scales

Andy was kind enough to dump some misc. scale material on the table..free for all

The ladies were kind enough to provide food

Overall it was a great event and we look forward to the next one.

 

[TxSportsman]

Cool pics! In the 4th picture, who's folders?

 

[VANCE]

The folders are by Calvin Robinson.
Top notch work!

 

[swonut]

Cool thread! Thanks for sharing. Looks like you guys keep a nice, clean, well organized and safe shop. Definitely would not want to host a gathering in my garage!

 

[Fiddleback]

It was a special weekend for me not only because it was at my shop, but because a lot of my knifemaking heroes were there with me. The gang from the Flint River Knife club are great. Many of them are also in the GA Custom Knifemakers Guild. Some of them have been here before but its still special for me. This weekend we had a guest, Calvin Robinson, and I was very excited about that. Mr Robinson makes beautiful knives. I noticed his work around the time I attended my first Knifemakers Guild show in Louisville and have made sure to see his work at shows since then. I was very proud last September for Calvin to be among the judges that inspected my knives when I was going for my voting member status. So I was very excited to have him in my shop. It was a fun day of knives and knife lovers. A knifemaker never stops trying to learn more about the craft. Georgians are lucky in this.

 

[Scotcha]

Looks like an awesome way to spend a weekend :thumbup:

 

[Uncle_P]

Sounds like everyone was well taken care of, and cubby was well fed.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[necrolicious]

What an awesome event! Ya'll are very lucky indeed.

 

[willic]

Looks like a super event! Thanks for sharing the story and pics!!!