Steve Shackleford

Jose Diaz cuts the water-filled plastic bottles during last year’s BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition. (Point Seven photo)

    Want to see blades cut, chop, whack and otherwise do what they are designed to do? The 10^th Annual BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition, conducted by BladeSports International, will provide plenty of it during the 31st Annual BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com).

    The show will run June 8-10 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. All BLADE Show ticket holders are admitted to the World Championship Cutting Competition for free.

    Plan now to attend!

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Knifemaker Les George, who will exhibit his knives at the BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com), holds one of his EOD fixed blades while he was on active duty in Iraq. (photo courtesy of Les George)

Two weeks from today, the 31st Annual BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com) will descend upon the environs of the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. In addition to the world’s greatest knives, knifemakers, knife manufacturers, knife accessories and much more, the show will have a special “Welcome Home Troops” theme to celebrate the recent homecoming of our gallant service personnel from the war in Iraq.

    All active military will be offered a discounted entry ticket rate to the show of $8 (regular price is $15). The discount applies to law enforcement personnel, too. An active identification card must be presented onsite to receive the discount.

For more on the latest knives, knife legislation, knifemaking instruction, knife trends, knifemakers, what knives to buy and where and much more, subscribe to BLADE Magazine, the World’s No. 1 Knife Publication.

Two weeks from tomorrow, the 31st Annual BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com), the world’s most important knife event, will go down June 8-10 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Join the over 900 exhibitors that include knifemakers, knife companies, knife accessory companies, knifemaking suppliers, purveyors, swordsmiths, sheath makers, knifemaking equipment manufacturers—in other words, everything that has to do with stuff that cuts—at the biggest knife party anywhere. Show times will be Friday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

    In the coming days in this space, you will see capsule descriptions of special events within the event—seminars, the show within a show, the Survival+Tactical Gear Expo, the BLADE Magazine Knife-Of-The-Year® Awards, the annual induction into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall Of Fame©, the annual meeting of the American Bladesmith Society held in conjunction with the show—and much more.

    In many ways the show starts two weeks from today, Thursday, June 7. That is the day many of the exhibitors start arriving to set up in the mammoth Cobb Galleria Centre show hall, and patrons start arriving to meet and greet their fellow knife enthusiasts for the coming three days of non-stop cutlery revelry.

    Here’s hoping you’re one of them!

For more on the latest knives, knife legislation, knifemaking instruction, knife trends, knifemakers, what knives to buy and where and much more, subscribe to BLADE Magazine, the World’s No. 1 Knife Publication.