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Okay my friends, I got all the shipments created, customs documents completed, and packages build and closed up ready to go. All this on time to get them to the FedEx drop off site before they closed tonight, but before I left, I called and asked when their next pick up time is. Monday morning. So rather than take the time to go all the way there and back when I still have things to prepare for the fair, I decided I would get them to to drop off Monday, since they won't move any faster if I did it tonight.
So here is one of the things I have done in that time:

I printed 35 of these so there is one to go with each knife, if the day blesses me so to sell that number.
I also have some screenshots from the "Knife Show Stupidity" thread to leave on the table for people to peruse.
So here is one of the things I have done in that time:

I printed 35 of these so there is one to go with each knife, if the day blesses me so to sell that number.
I also have some screenshots from the "Knife Show Stupidity" thread to leave on the table for people to peruse.

So I have a table at a local knifeshow. This show is put on by one of the largest knife dealers in Alabama so it draws a large crowd and Alabama has a robust knife making community. Anyway, an old timer walks in that apparently helped create the tool we know as knives and knows everything about them. He walks up to my buddy’s table, holds a knife up to his ear and thumps it…says, “I can tell how consistent your grind is by how it rings”. My buddies like “that’s cool” while rolling his eyes because it’s a brut de forge knife. The old timer walks around performing various “tests” on other...
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