BLADE Staff

Get ready for hunting season! Check out Buck’s new knives on the New Products page. Selected knives on sale!

Announcing the first ever Knives Illustrated “Best in Knives” Reader’s Poll. Categories range from Best Overall knife for the money, Best Camp knife, Best Cowboy knife, Prettiest, Best commemorative of all time, Most Underrated Factory knife, and over 60 categories.

We would like for you to go online to www.knivesillustrated.com and vote for Knives of Alaska. This is an open vote, and there is NO LIMIT on how many times you can vote.

Winners will be announced in the Knives Illustrated Buyers Guide, hitting the newsstands in November.

This is pretty cool. Back in 1996, BLADE compiled a list of knife laws in all 50 states. Bernard Levine kept that list current through 1997. Somehow, that list wound up here: http://www.knife-expert.com/sta-law.htm.

Check it out, it’s interesting stuff.

Apparently one of our favorite knife actors of all time, Paul Hogan, he of Crocodile Dundee fame, cannot leave his native Australia until he pays his taxes. According to Colin Cowherd of ESPN, Hogan was recently detained in Australia and told he could not leave the country until he pays about $36 MILLION (I don’t know what that is in Aussie currency but I’m sure it’s a bunch).

It appears the Aussie tax types have tied Hogan’s kangaroo down.

There’s a new place just for saying “hi” on the Knife Showcase Forum. Click here to meet your neighbors.

Just a friendly reminder that the 41st Knife Makers Guild Show is coming up soon (just 3 weeks away) September 17-19, at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY. This has always been one of the premier knife shows to attend. I will be there and I am looking forward to seeing all of you there! Be safe in your travels!

With The Expendables leading in box office receipts for the second weekend in a row, the current issue of the November BLADE with Gil Hibben’s knife for Sly Stallone in the movie on the cover is no doubt flying off newsstands.

Linda Hibben told me she, Gil and Mike went to see the movie and, of course, really enjoyed it. (What’s not to like with Gil’s knives in it?) She also said Gil received recognition for the knife in the credits at the end of the movie, which is somewhat unusual these days as most movies no longer give such credit to knifemakers and/or knife companies for their knives. Apparently, the main reason for that is all the royalties movie production companies can make off knife reproductions these days.

Linda also said if the movie makes a pre-set amount of money, there will probably be a sequel. The way things are looking in the movie’s box-office performance so far, chances look good that pre-set amount will be met.