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Spring has finally arrived it would appear and while this weekend has been busy with a Photography show, last weekend, a bit on the cooler side till Sunday afternoon, found Phyllis and I visiting with old and new friends at the Wolverine Antique Gun and Knife Collectors Show in Novi, Michigan.
We told the Garmin C530 where we wanted to go and except for one turn that is messed up on right at the Novi exit (we learned later that the problem was that the interchange had been redone) it took us right to the hall. We wanted to check out where we had to go before finding a hotel for the weekend.
After a nice Buffet breakfast Saturday morning, we headed off to the show and were greeted with about 250 tables separated into the Antique Guns and the Wolverine Knife Collectors club. This was our first time at this show although a number of years back when the show was held in February, a group of us, that had planned a trip, were snowed in.
The Wolverine Knife Collectors Club is an old established club comprised of both the Factory knife collector and the Custom knife collector. I have to admit, some of the Factory knife collectors create some wonderful displays. The President of the club collects Custom knives and had an amazing display of knives from makers from all over the state of Michigan.
Just at the edge of the Gun show and where the Knife show began was a large spread of Tomahawks by Bill Keeler of Hamilton, Ohio.
A very wide variety of Hawks were available and one is depicted in a litho of a Native American and the litho can be purchased with a Hawk of that type. It tempted me but I have been wanting to get a PipeHawk and hoped to find a nice one at the right price.
Many awards were presented to knifemakers and Bill Behnke
won an award for Best in Show Specialty Knife
this was a magnificent Damascus PipeHawk with brass fittings
but just a tad out of my price range so I hurried back to Bill Keeler and found just the Hawk that fits in with my Native American/Canadian collectibles
Bill did a terrific job with this pipehawk which is 20" in length with a head of 7 1/2" and fitted traditionally with pewter. The head is forged 12L14 of a black powder gun barrel -- most fitting at an Antique Gun show. The handle is Curly Maple with horsehair and trade beads attached and came complete with a nice stand.
Novi, MI is a suburb of Detroit and thus close to the border, it attracted quite a few Canadian knifemakers.
Jim Downie and his wife Pat listen attentively to a collector explaining her desires in a custom knife.
Phyllis and I spent a wonderful evening chatting with the Downies at pool and hot tub in the hotel Saturday evening.
Pat also visited with other knifemakers and wives and here is seen at a knifemakers table whose card I seem to have misplaced and he was not a maker with whom I was familiar. Thanks to Habber, we have the name of Mark Nevling.
However, Frank Deluvio certainly had a great discussion regarding this makers knives and his collaboration Bowie made from Meteorite Damascus.
This was the first knife I looked at when getting to the show and it was a work of art. Later the maker showed a large book of story and images as to how the steel was created thru to the finished knife which won Best In Show Collaboration category.
It was tempting and unfortunately at the time the maker was not around his table and prices were not evident and we moved on.
We told the Garmin C530 where we wanted to go and except for one turn that is messed up on right at the Novi exit (we learned later that the problem was that the interchange had been redone) it took us right to the hall. We wanted to check out where we had to go before finding a hotel for the weekend.
After a nice Buffet breakfast Saturday morning, we headed off to the show and were greeted with about 250 tables separated into the Antique Guns and the Wolverine Knife Collectors club. This was our first time at this show although a number of years back when the show was held in February, a group of us, that had planned a trip, were snowed in.
The Wolverine Knife Collectors Club is an old established club comprised of both the Factory knife collector and the Custom knife collector. I have to admit, some of the Factory knife collectors create some wonderful displays. The President of the club collects Custom knives and had an amazing display of knives from makers from all over the state of Michigan.
Just at the edge of the Gun show and where the Knife show began was a large spread of Tomahawks by Bill Keeler of Hamilton, Ohio.
A very wide variety of Hawks were available and one is depicted in a litho of a Native American and the litho can be purchased with a Hawk of that type. It tempted me but I have been wanting to get a PipeHawk and hoped to find a nice one at the right price.
Many awards were presented to knifemakers and Bill Behnke
won an award for Best in Show Specialty Knife
this was a magnificent Damascus PipeHawk with brass fittings
but just a tad out of my price range so I hurried back to Bill Keeler and found just the Hawk that fits in with my Native American/Canadian collectibles
Bill did a terrific job with this pipehawk which is 20" in length with a head of 7 1/2" and fitted traditionally with pewter. The head is forged 12L14 of a black powder gun barrel -- most fitting at an Antique Gun show. The handle is Curly Maple with horsehair and trade beads attached and came complete with a nice stand.
Novi, MI is a suburb of Detroit and thus close to the border, it attracted quite a few Canadian knifemakers.
Jim Downie and his wife Pat listen attentively to a collector explaining her desires in a custom knife.
Phyllis and I spent a wonderful evening chatting with the Downies at pool and hot tub in the hotel Saturday evening.
Pat also visited with other knifemakers and wives and here is seen at a knifemakers table whose card I seem to have misplaced and he was not a maker with whom I was familiar. Thanks to Habber, we have the name of Mark Nevling.
However, Frank Deluvio certainly had a great discussion regarding this makers knives and his collaboration Bowie made from Meteorite Damascus.
This was the first knife I looked at when getting to the show and it was a work of art. Later the maker showed a large book of story and images as to how the steel was created thru to the finished knife which won Best In Show Collaboration category.
It was tempting and unfortunately at the time the maker was not around his table and prices were not evident and we moved on.
that Bowie & Sheath is outstanding. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: