Summary
A sneak preview of BLADE Show 2010. Click here for more information on how to attend. 

The world’s most complete cutlery experience awaits you and all who thrive on knives June 4-6 in Atlanta’s Cobb Galleria Centre for the 29th Annual BLADE Show & International Cutlery Fair.

The latest, hottest knives and the people who make them—and every segment of the industry that supports them all—will showcase their wares before the largest audience of knife enthusiasts in cutlery’s biggest arena. Over 760 tables and 185 booths of the planet’s most popular national and international custom knifemakers, factory knife companies and the purveyors and dealers for same, knifemaking material, maintenance and equipment suppliers, antique knives and dealers, knife collections, knife accessory makers and knife rights organizations are but a sampling of the cavalcade of cutlery that will light the Cobb Galleria’s fire as no other knife event can.
 
*The Blade Magazine 2010 Knife-Of-The-Year® Awards will be named Saturday night during the annual BLADE® Magazine Awards Banquet.

*The BLADE Show Custom Knife Judging entertains more makers and knife entries than any show in the world, and the winners in a wide array of categories will be selected and announced late Friday.

*Knife collection displays are always a BLADE Show mainstay, including a diverse array of exhibits by Buck Collectors Club members, as well as displays of knives made by Case, Cutlery Hall-Of-Famers George Herron, Bo Randall, William Scagel and Bob Loveless, ABS board members and more.

*There will be special sections in the show hall for the Knifemakers’ Guild, non-affiliated makers and the American Bladesmith Society.

*The ABS holds its annual meeting in conjunction with the BLADE Show, awarding ABS journeyman and master smith ratings, naming its annual top knives, presenting special awards and more. It also holds its annual auction of special handforged knives.

And a full-slate of seminars in conjunction with the BLADE Show on Saturday and Sunday:

—How To Throw Knives & Tomahawks—Bobby Branton
—Thirty Years of Learning Knife Function and Knife Users—Ed Fowler
—How To Grind Blades—Dan Crotts and Bob Dozier Knives, with special guest Ken Onion
—Bladesmithing For Kids—Wes Byrd, Joe Keeslar and Larry Harley
—How To Inlay Pearl In A Knife Handle—Wally Hayes
—How To Forge Knives—Jay Hendrickson & Tim Carr
—The Victorinox Build-A-Knife Machine, Mike Smith and Rob Baldwin
—Surviving Mortal Combat—Ernest Emerson  
—Japanese Sword Demonstration—James Williams
—How To Repeal Your State’s Anti-Knife Laws—New Hampshire Rep. Jenn Coffey and Friends
—Modern Cutting Tools & The Materials Used To Make Them—Duane Dwyer, Scott Devanna, Steve Michaels and Steve Tarani
—How To Survive Slow Knife Economies—Ron Lake  
—8th Annual BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition—BladeSports International
—Historical Sword-Fighting Techniques—Reinhardt Legacy Fight Team
—How To Make a Metal Sheath & Flat Grind a Blade—Steven Rapp
—Shaving A Man’s Head With A Machete—Murray Carter
—Titanium Knife: Carbide Impregnating of Blades for All Makers—Ed Fowler
—Authentic Renaissance Swords and Fencing—John Clements,
—Invitational Kitchen Knife Competition—Ethan Becker and Friends