Gary W. Graley
“Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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- Mar 2, 1999
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Sort of....The Chesapeake Knife Show was today! and a full day it was!
Picked up a little beauty from a maker named
M. Takahashi, small stag handled fixed blade, tapered tang, very sweet.
Met a lot of fellows too!
Win Heger, great guy! we were roomies the night before the show, got the VIP Pass so we had a gathering with the makers and got to go into the show early as well...he brougt along some nice soft bags for knives, very strong and soft, plus he had some Photon II's at a nice price as well, think he has a few left. Win also had a lot of gorgeous knives, engraved and just spectacular!
Bob Curran, Narruc1 was present with his TON of knives, and beauties they were! Last I saw of him he was working on a folder from WD Pease and also a BM42 butterfly, I sort of put on a short show and got the interest up on working on that...
The Jones boys, don't call them Boys! they are a serious pair of knife makers! lots of Tactical items present! Nice to meet them there!
PJ Tomes, what a unique fellow he is, very nice knives, great time with him at the get together...
Boomer2, met briefly, busy guy!
HD Charlie and friend, now this guy has BIG knives, had fun showing knives on Saturday night show and tell, that Hossom....WOW !
W.D. Pease, what a nice man he is, and can he make a knife! I had gotten a small fixed blade of his through Win Heger a short while ago with Stag handles, well he brought Win one of the last fixed blades and this one had Sheep horn and I was going crazy and begged Win to let me trade my stag for the Sheep horn....
I was a very happy camper!!!!
Met Taz there too, he only had a short time, kind a like Cinderella Knifemaker I would guess, but he is NO Cinderella! Strong looking guy, but then he is in college at York PA, home of the Barbell place so he can't help but press a little iron now and again. He brought three of his knives in process, a bowie, a tanto he calls a Ronin (sp) and a small hunter, he has just gotten his Grizzley grinder and I expect great things from him, he certainly has the Steel Virus!!
JPopp, now here is a guy that trades and sells knives faster than me!?! Extremely nice guy, but then I really didn't meet anyone that wasn't !
Poor RJ Martin, he was there, no table but walking around with his hand all bandaged up, RJ we are pulling for you to heal up quick!
Rick Hinderer also showed up with some new tacticals as well, nice work Rick!
Mike Snody, what a really nice fellow and he brought quite a lot of knives along with him, working in CPM3V and says he loves it, so I might be getting something from him in that, too bad he didn't get any sleep Saturday night, said the floor above was making such a racket, I said it was probably someone forging a knife for the show....last minute work!
ChefGet, Micheal Gettier, here is a Chef with some very strong arms, this guy is plenty tough! I shook hands and his forearm felt like steel cable, just how hard is it to be a Chef in your area? Micheal Treated the Bladeforum guys to a SUPER meal of ribs and beer and bottle water, I took the water, but had a lot of ribs which fell off the bone, oh man were they tasty! We had some left and he wrapped it up and I ferried it back to the show for Les and Ted Merchant and the other BladeForum guys that missed out. Thanks again Michael! and he also had some knives there.....
While there I meet a few more forum members, but don't remember they're names and hope they will add to this thread, but the Damon was there, nice collection he had, Paracelsus and his son were there and two others that were just plain fun to meet up with and talk knives....my brain is burned out as I can't recall the names...
All in all I certainly enjoyed the fellowship and the steel that was present, very nice group of guys to play show and tell, and a lot of them seemed to like my Criswell sword! and no it's not for sale!
G2, tired and finally home, bid you goodnight! oops goodmorning!
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"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions!"
Take the time to read your Bible Now, don't be left behind...
[This message has been edited by Gary W. Graley (edited 12-20-2000).]
Picked up a little beauty from a maker named
M. Takahashi, small stag handled fixed blade, tapered tang, very sweet.
Met a lot of fellows too!
Win Heger, great guy! we were roomies the night before the show, got the VIP Pass so we had a gathering with the makers and got to go into the show early as well...he brougt along some nice soft bags for knives, very strong and soft, plus he had some Photon II's at a nice price as well, think he has a few left. Win also had a lot of gorgeous knives, engraved and just spectacular!
Bob Curran, Narruc1 was present with his TON of knives, and beauties they were! Last I saw of him he was working on a folder from WD Pease and also a BM42 butterfly, I sort of put on a short show and got the interest up on working on that...
The Jones boys, don't call them Boys! they are a serious pair of knife makers! lots of Tactical items present! Nice to meet them there!
PJ Tomes, what a unique fellow he is, very nice knives, great time with him at the get together...
Boomer2, met briefly, busy guy!
HD Charlie and friend, now this guy has BIG knives, had fun showing knives on Saturday night show and tell, that Hossom....WOW !
W.D. Pease, what a nice man he is, and can he make a knife! I had gotten a small fixed blade of his through Win Heger a short while ago with Stag handles, well he brought Win one of the last fixed blades and this one had Sheep horn and I was going crazy and begged Win to let me trade my stag for the Sheep horn....
I was a very happy camper!!!!
Met Taz there too, he only had a short time, kind a like Cinderella Knifemaker I would guess, but he is NO Cinderella! Strong looking guy, but then he is in college at York PA, home of the Barbell place so he can't help but press a little iron now and again. He brought three of his knives in process, a bowie, a tanto he calls a Ronin (sp) and a small hunter, he has just gotten his Grizzley grinder and I expect great things from him, he certainly has the Steel Virus!!
JPopp, now here is a guy that trades and sells knives faster than me!?! Extremely nice guy, but then I really didn't meet anyone that wasn't !
Poor RJ Martin, he was there, no table but walking around with his hand all bandaged up, RJ we are pulling for you to heal up quick!
Rick Hinderer also showed up with some new tacticals as well, nice work Rick!
Mike Snody, what a really nice fellow and he brought quite a lot of knives along with him, working in CPM3V and says he loves it, so I might be getting something from him in that, too bad he didn't get any sleep Saturday night, said the floor above was making such a racket, I said it was probably someone forging a knife for the show....last minute work!
ChefGet, Micheal Gettier, here is a Chef with some very strong arms, this guy is plenty tough! I shook hands and his forearm felt like steel cable, just how hard is it to be a Chef in your area? Micheal Treated the Bladeforum guys to a SUPER meal of ribs and beer and bottle water, I took the water, but had a lot of ribs which fell off the bone, oh man were they tasty! We had some left and he wrapped it up and I ferried it back to the show for Les and Ted Merchant and the other BladeForum guys that missed out. Thanks again Michael! and he also had some knives there.....

While there I meet a few more forum members, but don't remember they're names and hope they will add to this thread, but the Damon was there, nice collection he had, Paracelsus and his son were there and two others that were just plain fun to meet up with and talk knives....my brain is burned out as I can't recall the names...
All in all I certainly enjoyed the fellowship and the steel that was present, very nice group of guys to play show and tell, and a lot of them seemed to like my Criswell sword! and no it's not for sale!
G2, tired and finally home, bid you goodnight! oops goodmorning!
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"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions!"
Take the time to read your Bible Now, don't be left behind...
[This message has been edited by Gary W. Graley (edited 12-20-2000).]