BLADE Staff

To My Knife Showcase Friends,

Since Knife Showcase launched earlier this week, I’ve received many questions and requests regarding the site. I want to let everyone know that I will respond to you. I’m running a bit behind due to the volume of messages, but that doesn’t mean your questions are any less important. I’m committed to giving you the best experience and I will get back to you.

Stay sharp, Edgencia!

Ben

I just got word that at least one of the knives used by Mike Statham as knife expert Lee Christmas in The Expendables is one of Darrel Ralph’s old AXD folders. Darrell says his list price for the knife as shown in the movie is $775. He says it was one of the first 3D machined knives on the market. He says no one from the movie contacted him about the knife being in The Expendables—not that he minds the publicity, of course—and that it may have been a knife from the collection of one of the movie’s principals. For more info on the AXD and or knives like it, visit www.darrelralph.com. Or, for pictures of the knife and scenes with it from the movie, see Steve Shackleford’s “My Page.”

If any of you are in the area or simply want to get away this weekend, the American Bladesmith Society will have its 2nd All-Forged Blade Exposition Aug. 20-21 at the Sheraton Gunter in San Antonio, Texas. Check out some of the world’s best handforged knives, damascus knives and much more, visit the Alamo, check out the riverwalk, and just plain have a good ol’ time in ol’ San Antone. For more info go to www.americanbladesmith.com.

The new November BLADE®, on most newsstands as of yesterday, features the knives made by Gil Hibben for the new action flick, The Expendables, the Blade Magazine 2010 Knives Of The Year®, some of the best custom knives from the BLADE Show, the American Bladesmith Society’s top annual knives, some of the latest hunters from the BLADE Show, some of the debut factory knives of the BLADE Show and much more.

Here’s a list, in the order they appear, of the makers’ and companies’ knives pictured editorially in the new November BLADE®: Gil Hibben, Strider, Chris Reeve, Columbia River Knife & Tool, Kershaw, Spyderco, Lion Steel, A.G. Russell Knives, Spartan Blades, Stone River Gear, Pro-Tech, Shaun and Sharla Hansen, Tad Lynch, John Horrigan, Vince Evans, Jody Muller, Bob Dozier and Daniel Crotts, Peter Martin, E. Jay Hendrickson, Rock Creek, Queen, Karl B. Andersen, James Shaver III, Buck, Boker Plus, Hogue, Benchmade, Mil-Tac, Zero Tolerance, Ted Ott, Al Mar Knives, Butch Ball, Silver Stag, Condor Tool & Knife, Robert Nelson Parker, Utica, Tim Tabor, Jerry Hossom, Mace Vitale, Grohmann, Phil Evans, Jerry Van Eizenga, Donald Vogt, Jack Busfield, Ron Richerson, John White, Henry Torres, Bill Behnke, Antonio Fogarizzu, Michael Rader, Dee Hedges, James Batson, Bill Buxton, Bruce Bingenheimer, William Scagel, Scorpion Knives and D’ Holder.