Darrel Ralph designed this knife for The Expendables.
AKTI Offers Bright Red Luggage Tags
This is pretty cool. Many of you know the American Knife & Tool Institute (AKTI), a knife rights advocacy group working for the entire knife industry. Now it’s easy to support the AKTI, and get a neat gift item at the same time. The AKTI is offering bright red luggage tags labeled with the organization’s emblem, with every cent of the sales procedes going to support AKTI’s effort to protect your right to own and carry knives. You can put a luggage tag on every piece of luggage you own, making it easy to find your black bag among all those other black bags on the airport carousel; and it identifies your bag for the airlines if it is lost. Measures 4-1/4″ x 2-1/2″. Visit http://akti.org/ to learn more about AKTI and their efforts.
Knives in the new November BLADE®
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.
Custom Yanagiba by Patrickknives
240mm 1084 blade, stabilized walnut burl and african ebony with stainless steel spacer and guard.
November BLADE hits most newsstands Aug. 17
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.
BLADE With Expendables Cover Slated to Hit Newsstands Aug. 17
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.
BLADE Issue Devoted Entirely To The Military
The December 2010 issue of BLADE Magazine is devoted entirely, from front to back, to our fighting men and women serving in the military. Find out what knives they’re using, how, where and why, learn about standard-issue military pieces, what makers are fashioning war knives for whom, which manufacturers specialize in the genre, and read real-life stories about our soldiers, interviews with our soldiers and stories written for our soldiers. They all like to tell about their favorite carry knives, and the photos of them on location “somewhere in Iraq, Afghanistan or …. ” are fascinating.
It’s the only knife magazine ever printed that is entirely devoted to the military.
It’s the best tribute BLADE could pay to our men and women in uniform, and the staff of BLADE Magazine was humbled to be able to do so. Here’s to our fighting men and women. See the December 2010 issue, on newsstands and hitting subscribers’ doorsteps on September 14th.
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