BLADE Staff

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.

With The Expendables being the No. 1 movie hit of the past weekend, bringing in about $35 million–$12 million more than the nearest competition–the November BLADE hitting most newsstands tomorrow, Aug. 17, could not have been timed much better. The November BLADE features the knives made by Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© Gil Hibben for the movie’s star, Sylvester Stallone, and one of Sly’s many co-stars, Dolph Lundgren. If you subscribe, you should already have the issue. If not, check your local newsstands starting tomorrow. It should be on most of them by then. The issue also features:
•The Blade Magazine 2010 Knife-Of-The-Year™ Awards;
•The Best Annual Knives of The American Bladesmith Society;
•The top knives of the world’s largest knife show, the 2010 BLADE Show;
•A report on the lawless raid of knife stores in Manhattan, New York, by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his minions;
•And much more.

With The Expendables being the No. 1 movie hit of the past weekend, bringing in about $35 million–$12 million more than the nearest competition–the November BLADE hitting a number of newsstands tomorrow, Aug. 17, could not have been timed much better. The November BLADE features the knives made by Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© Gil Hibben for the movie’s star, Sylvester Stallone, and one of Sly’s many co-stars, Dolph Lundgren. If you subscribe, you should already have the issue. If not, check your local newsstands starting tomorrow. It should be on a number of them by then. The issue also features:
•The Blade Magazine 2010 Knife-Of-The-Year™ Awards;
•The Best Annual Knives of The American Bladesmith Society;
•The top knives of the world’s largest knife show, the 2010 BLADE Show;
•A report on the lawless raid of knife stores in Manhattan, New York, by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his minions;
•And much more.

Sign up for the Guadalupe Forge Fall Hammer-In & Knifemaker’s Rendezvous in New Braunfels, Texas on Sept. 25-26, 2010. Contact me at [email protected] for more information, or visit my website at www.stoutknives.com