BLADE Staff

We’re re-designing Knife Showcase, so please bear with us as changes are made.

Thanks!

-Ben

July 15 through 17, 2011

Offered by the American Bladesmith Society, Inc.

Hosted by the New England School of Metalwork

Location:
New England School of Metalwork
9 Albiston Way
Auburn, Maine 04210

For more Information:
Dr. Jim Batson at 256-971-6860 or [email protected]

Registration Fee: $55

Pre-Register and pay the $55 Registration fee online in the Store

or Cindy Sheely, ABS Store Manager at [email protected] or (419) 832-0400

Event Flyer: TBA

Demonstrators:

Lin Rhea, MS – Forging, grinding, heat treating a camp knife to pass the JS Performance Test

Christoph Deringer, MS – Damascus steel

Dan Farr, JS – Handles and Guards, Blade Finishing

Mace Vitale, JS – Preparing for the Journeyman Smith Test, Auctioneer

Butch Sheely, JS – Forging Tomahawks

Schedule: TBA

Accommodations:

The Fireside Inn, 207-777-1777, 2 double beds, $60 plus tax, Washington St, Auburn, ME.
Ramada Inn, 207-784-2331. 2 double beds, $85.50, 490 Pleasant St., Lewiston, ME

Cutting Demonstrations:

Participate in the Cutting Demonstrations. Bring a sharp knife, 15” or less in length
with a blade no longer than 10”. The handle should be pinned & with a safety lanyard.

Please Pre-Register:

Get your $55 Pre-Registration Fee in early and plan to attend Demonstrators Dinner on Thursday night.
Please mail registration form & check to the ABS Store
or register through the ABS Store on the website.

Knife Showcase will be getting a redesign in the coming weeks. Not to worry, I told the workers to make sure they cover their shoes before walking on your carpet.

R. Lee “Gunny” Ermey, actor and star of the History Channel’s Mail Call and Lock N’ Load TV shows, will make a special appearance during the 30th Annual BLADE Show June 10-12 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.

Gunny will be at the SOG Specialty Knives & Tools booth Saturday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to sign autographs and help introduce his inaugural SOG collaboration knives.

A spokesperson for SOG for over one year now, the retired Marine staff sergeant collects knives and Japanese swords, among other blades. His breakthrough role was as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in the Vietnam War movie, Full Metal Jacket. He also appears as the bald-headed psychoanalyst in the Geico TV commercials who throws the box of tissues at his “patient.”

For more information on the BLADE Show, visit http://www.bladeshow.com/.

William Henry Studio will give away a $10,000 knife to a lucky BLADE Show ticket holder during the 30th Annual BLADE Show June 10-12 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta.

The one-of-a-kind knife is William Henry’s B12 pattern with stunning engraving by Don Patch and a spear-point blade of Hornet’s Nest damascus forged by Mike Norris. Gemstones include single diamonds set into the thumb stud and lock-release button.

Patch’s copious scroll engraving is inlaid with numerous “sprouts” of 24k gold and oval scenes on both sides of the handle. The mark side reads “BLADE SHOW” in 24k gold with “30^th Anniversary” on a scroll banner. The flip side is a scene of a bladesmith hammering a 24k-gold blade, with 24k-gold “sparks” flying in all directions.

Each BLADE Show ticket holder is eligible to win the knife. It’s easy. Here’s how:

•After you buy your BLADE Show ticket, visit any or all of the booths of the American Knife & Tool Institute, Knife Rights and the Custom Knife Collectors Association, fill out a form and drop it in the tumbler at the applicable booth (AKTI, Knife Rights and/or the CKCA).

•The drawing will be the Saturday afternoon of the show at the William Henry booth.

There will be more information on the knife and the drawing in the BLADE Show Directory at the show.

The idea behind the knife giveaway is not only to reward some lucky knife enthusiast and to celebrate the landmark 30th anniversary BLADE Show, but also to direct knife enthusiasts to three entities—Knife Rights and the American Knife & Tool Institute, and the Custom Knife Collectors Association—that protect the rights of knife enthusiasts and further the pursuit of collecting custom knives, respectively.

William Henry’s Matt Conable put it best.

“[This knife] will be donated at the show to help our industry organizations spread the word about the challenges we all face as designers, makers, manufacturers, purveyors, collectors, and users of edged tools,” he noted. “We believe it is about all of us, together, working towards a common vision of advancing and protecting our American knife heritage.”

For more information on the giveaway and the show, visit http://www.bladeshow.com/.

William Henry Studio’s $10,000 knife giveaway, show exhibitor lists, the comprehensive seminar lineup and much more are but a sampling of the all-new, all-inclusive BLADE Show website, http://www.bladeshow.com/.

Need information on how to rent table or booth space? The site has it. Need to know which knifemakers and knife companies will be exhibiting? It’s all here! Get the lowdown on the show’s host site, the Cobb Galleria Centre, dates, times, how to buy tickets to the show, hotel information–anything and everything you need to make your BLADE Show experience the best it can be is all at www.bladeshow.com

The BLADE Show will be June 10-12 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.