BLADE Staff

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.

Bear Grylls’ new parang design for Gerber, 30 years of indelible BLADE Show memories, Israel’s No. 1 name in knives, keys to the best everyday carry knives and much more highlight the July BLADE®, on various newsstands today.

Get the lowdown on knives with some of the most intricate damascus going, a primer on handle shapes, a tribute to Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Jimmy Lile and a profile of Sal Manaro. Looking for knives to give Mom on Mother’s Day? Check out the story by BLADE Managing Editor Joe Kertzman for suggestions. Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Michael Walker’s LinerLock is the focus of BLADE’s latest installment in its “Knife Mechanisms” series, and the PDXF utility knife by William Eirich gets a going over in “Spec Sheet.” ABS master smith Joe Szilaski shows you how to make handles from elk antler, and ABS master smith Ed Fowler dispels myths concerning forging heats.

In addition, there is editorial mention of Wally Hayes’ 9/11 knife; Gil Hibben’s “Alien”; the “Arad,” “Dimona” and more of Du**Star’s fixed blades; damascus knives by Steven Skiff, Graham Fredeen, Rick Dunkerley, Tom Ferry, David Lisch, Peter Martin and John White; Paul Myers’ Remington Bullet repros; not only the aforementioned parang but also Gerber’s Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife, Ultimate Multi-Tool, Folding Sheath Knife, Compact Scout pocketknife  and Ultimate Survival Kit; A.G. Russell Knives 3-inch lockback, Benchmade’s 470 Emissary, CRKT’s Keydashi neck knife designed by Flavio Ikoma, William Henry Studio’s B09 Whitehorse, the Case 11592 Small Texas Toothpick and Kershaw’s composite-blade Leek; knives by Anders Hogstrom, Jim Batson, Keith Ouye, Kenneth King, Steve Schwarzer and Todd Kopp.

Also: Jimmy Lile’s First Blood Rambo, Lile Lock Folding Hunter and Lone Wolf Gonzaullas bowie; Grayman’s “Satu,” TOPS “Key A” and “Key B,” Les Stroud’s “Survivorman,” Spartan’s “Enyo,” and Boyd Ashworth’s “Turtle”; knives by Ken Steigerwalt, Billy Bob Sowell, Richard van Dijk, Bill Duff, Wild Boar Blades, Emerson Knives, Inc., and Eric Ochs; mini profiles of Jason Howell, Eric Dobratz, Pekka Tuominen, Walter Powers, Mike “Whiskers” Allen and Larry Hostetler; the KA-BAR Kharon, Grant and Gavin Hawk’s S.T.U.D., Boker Plus Titan Drop, Meyerco Folding Focus, Andre Van Heerden’s flipper folder, Buck Vantage Force, Cold Steel Mini Tuff Lite and Camillus 18671 folder; Bill Coye’s “Oscar Mike”; and a whole lot more!

Rhett Stidham, long-time knife collector and purveyor who probably will be best remembered for founding the Randall Knife Society, succumbed to a long illness Saturday, April 23.

Along with wife Janie owner of Meadows Edge retail knife store in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, Rhett was a familiar site at knife shows, selling and trading Randall knives and just about any knife, for that matter, that caught his fancy. A big man with a big smile and laugh to match, Rhett, along with Janie, was constantly on the road attending knife shows all over the country until failing health curtailed his busy travel schedule.

In the early years of his knife experience, Rhett specialized in selling and trading antique pocketknives, and later included custom knives and even knives by William Scagel among those he sold and traded before starting the Randall Knife Society. He also wrote and published the society’s newsletter and coordinated the RKS meetings at the BLADE Show. Early on, he wrote a book about the old (1900-1919 and 1931-1939) Napanoch Knife Co. of Napanoch, New York. As these words were written, this year’s RKS meeting was to be held as planned at the BLADE Show.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

All Buckeye knife enthusiasts should point their wagons to Wilmington, Ohio, for a three-day knife show starting right now.

Click here for the full event details on the show’s Knife Showcase page.