The BLADE Blogs

The blogs of the BLADE editors, Steve Shackleford and Erin Healy.

Please Help Get Knife Preemption Bill Up For Vote!

Butch Vallotton’s table was abuzz with activity at last year’s BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com). We need your help to get Georgia Knife Preemption Bill SB432 scheduled for a vote in the coming days or it will not become law.

Georgia Knife Preemption Bill SB432 must be scheduled for a vote in the coming days or it will not become law, Knife Rights reported.

    SB432 makes certain that Georgia’s knife laws are consistent throughout the state. As the home of the BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com), this is very important to knife owners, collectors and manufacturers and means millions of dollars in business to Georgia.

    The Georgia legislature is in the final hours of the 2012 session and there are a lot of bills competing to be heard before the legislature adjourns, most likely on Thursday.

    It is critical for you to call the office of Georgia’s Speaker of the House David Ralston and POLITELY request that he “please schedule SB432 for a vote as soon as possible.” That’s all the message you need to leave.

    If you are a BLADE Show attendee, or ever plan to be, and even if you are not a Georgia resident, you have a stake in this issue…CALL TODAY!  Phone calls will have the greatest impact.

    Georgia House Speaker David Ralston: 404-656-5020 Email: [email protected]

    For more click on www.KnifeRights.org.

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Granger Knives is Knife Showcase Knifemaker of the Week

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Click to go to the Granger Knives page on Knife Showcase

Granger Knives is the Knife Showcase Knifemaker of the Week for Oct. 31, 2010.

Paul Granger has been turning out pieces since 1998 as Granger Knives and Pale Horse Fighters.

Despite fate’s best efforts to keep him from doing so, Granger said he sees no end in sight for his knifemaking.

“I’ve been shot, paralyzed from the neck down twice, almost died from meningitis and gone through a windshield backwards. So I know God loves me and isn’t through with me yet.”

Click here to visit the Granger Knives page on Knife Showcase.

Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame Series: CRKT/A.G. Sting

CRKT/AG Russell StingWhen you talk Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© members, few carry the cache of A.G. Russell, and his Sting design reproduced by CRKT is a great way to experience his knife genius. The non-reflective, powder-coated blade of 1050 carbon steel is 3.197 inches long, and the integral handle is contoured to fit your hand.

Click here to get stung for yourself at ShopBlade.com.

Indiana Senate Committee Votes To Repeal Switchblade Ban

Indiana Senate’s Committee on Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters unanimously passed Senate Bill SB06, a Knife Rights requested bill sponsored by Senators Jim Tomes and Johnny Nugent, which would overturn the state’s antiquated and irrational ban on the possession of switchblade/automatic knives. Senate Bill SB06

This is just the first step in this effort, but the unanimous bipartisan vote bodes well for the bill’s future. If you live, work or travel in Indiana, please contact your Senator and ask them to support SB06 when it comes to the floor for a vote in the coming days. Locate your Senator, or the Senator who represents where you work or travel here: http://district.iga.in.gov/DistrictLookup/.

Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, testified at the hearing that these antiquated bans were implemented in the 1950’s in response to hysteria induced by movies like Rebel Without A Cause. They were not based on any type of public threat, increase in crime or other public policy decision. He also explained to the committee that “modern technology has created knives that open just as fast or faster than switchblades or automatics, so the bans on these knives are obsolete.”

SB06 removes a provision that makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to manufacture, possess, display, offer, sell, lend, give away, or purchase any knife with a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, device containing gas, spring, or other device in the handle of the knife. Read the bill here: http://1.usa.gov/sffRrU.

   

Canceled: West Coast Custom Knife Show

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Just received word that the West Coast Custom Knife Show has been canceled. Its website states the show has been “suspended until further notice.”

 

For reference, here are the now-defunct details:

 

Time: April 29, 2011 at 12pm to April 30, 2011 at 6pm
Location: Fess Parkers Double Tree Resort
Street: 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard
City/Town: Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Website or Map: http://www.wcckshow.com/
Event Type: knife, show
Organized By: Fifty-Fifty Productions

 

 

 

How ‘Bout a Bob Loveless Big Bear Classic?

If you’ve been following these posts on the Greatest Bob Loveless Knife Designs, then you knew, didn’t you?, that the Big Bear would rear it’s oversized but beautifully bladed head?

This particular Loveless Big Bear Classic fighter boasts an amber-stag handle, which makes it one of the few made, and no Loveless bolts. Its approximate value, you ask? I’m glad you did—$35,000. That’s a lot of bear bones. 

Thank you, Dave Ellis, for the image and information. Visit Dave at www.exquisiteknives.com and www.robertloveless.com

The Hunter’s Edge: 3 Hot Fixed Blades

You can’t beat fixed blades for down-and-dirty, heavy-duty hunting knife use, and three hot factory examples from ShopBlade are more than ready for the woods.

    Designed for fish and small game, the Buck 102BR Woodsman (second from top) boasts old-time Buck styling in an affordable ShopBlade price of $39.99. Overall length: 7.75. inches.

    For more click on www.shopblade.com/buck-102br-woodsman-knife-y4511?lid=SSfbbl100912

    The Medium Hunter “O” Style (third from top) by Scagel Knives features a 5.5-inch blade of A2 tool steel heat treated to 58 HRC. Sporting the convex grind—the favorite grind of Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Bill Moran—the blade is designed for all types of hunting uses.

    For more click on www.shopblade.com/scagel-design-knives-medium-hunter-o?lid=SSfbbl100912

    Speaking of Moran, Spyderco’s Bill Moran upswept hunter (top) boasts a VG-10 stainless blade and a comfy palm swell handle of fiberglass-reinforced nylon (FRN) at a ShopBlade price of $99.96. For out-of-the-box sharpness, this one is hard to beat.

     For more click on www.shopblade.com/bill-moran-black-frn-w-kraton-inlay-upswept-plainedge-w8522?lid=SSfbbl100912

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