Blade Show 2019

Will you be at Blade 2019

  • Yes, all days

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Yes, one day

    Votes: 2 11.1%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • No

    Votes: 12 66.7%

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Will anyone here be making it? I realized that I'll be in town through Friday for some Army training, so I might be able to make at least a day of the show.

John
 
Friday is the best, but it's worth going, especially if you've never been.
 
Blade is always in Atlanta the first weekend in June.

Blade West may move around, assuming it continues.
 
June 7, 8, 9. (Doesn't open until 2pm on Friday)

Cool show. You get to see some very neat tools as well as knives and parts for making knives.

In the last couple of years there has been a "tactical" adjunct display area with gun stuff and prepper stuff.

https://bladeshow.com/
 
My plan right now is to attend Friday at 2pm. Got 2 matches to shoot on Saturday. Ill stop by knife rights.
 
Lakeland's only 400 miles from me (Florida's a looong state...) but I do travel that way (and come racing by Atlanta that same day) every two months or so... My next run, I'll make a point of checking out both if their shows and my schedule get anywhere near close...

As an aside, I often wonder why things (and shows) I'm interested never seem to show up down here in paradise.... I tend to spend my days on the water way back up inside wilderness areas so most of the social scene down here goes right by me.
 
No Busse knives? When my son and I went in 2010, people went crazy over Busse's new knife releases.
 
Wow. I hadn't been in 2 years and has the show grown. Almost out grown Cobb Galleria. No more separate section for tactical stuff (gun accessories). The show spilled into a second smaller ballroom and there were tables in the lobby as well.

Met John and Jeff and contributed to Knife Rights. Made a contribution. There are so-o-o-o-o many knife companies. Not talking about the custom makers, but name brand companies. Had no idea how many there were, including one from Russia. If you're into making your own knifes there's every stock piece and part and tool you could imagine.

This is only one small corner of the show floor.
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Southern Grind's booth, which had a marvelous Damascus folder made for the show. 1 of 40 I think.
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Mike Seeklander working the Spyderco booth.
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Oh, yeah, and me trying to win a free knife.
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Met John and Jeff and contributed to Knife Rights

Thanks for helping. Nice to meet you.
 

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I spent Friday at the Show after skipping it for the last two years. Had a wonderful time. Didn't see you hso at Knife Rights, but I only passed by their booth a couple times.
 
Wow. I hadn't been in 2 years and has the show grown. Almost out grown Cobb Galleria. No more separate section for tactical stuff (gun accessories). The show spilled into a second smaller ballroom and there were tables in the lobby as well.

Met John and Jeff and contributed to Knife Rights. Made a contribution. There are so-o-o-o-o many knife companies. Not talking about the custom makers, but name brand companies. Had no idea how many there were, including one from Russia. If you're into making your own knifes there's every stock piece and part and tool you could imagine.
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Oh, yeah, and me trying to win a free knife.
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I also really liked that some vendors had booths/tables outside the show doors. Basically, more choices for coffee and such.... Wish I could have met John Shirley, but to my knowledge didn't. I seldom enter the drawings for "free stuff" anymore at shows. I own too many knives to really care if I win for the most part. I would take another SAK if offered as I use them a lot day to day.

This year, I decided before the show that I would or could make one "significant" knife purchase. I purchased a Dogwoods Custom Knives Kephart (Dan Eastland) with micarta handles (made in CPM-154, 5.2" blade, convex ground) and am really pleased with it. I picked up a couple other factory knives as I usually do, but they were much lower cost. My usual is to pick up a Dozier knife, but pretty much have all that I want unless I see something particularly interesting.
 
Yep, Eastland is very close to the original but with modern materials, and Mike McCarter makes one that is nearly a clone with nicer handles. Both handled the original owned by Ethan Becker. I have the Becker BK-62 and it satisfied my urge for something that is a near clone of the original. Now, I am looking more for function for a general woods knife not that I don't have a lot of choices already. But that never stopped me. :D
 
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