 Thursday night - Let the party get started |
 From the empties you can see the party's been rolling |
 Lil Trace, pimpin' it up on a 2L of Coke |
 Cheers! |
 Scott Cook Timascus Lochsa |
 Semi-close-up of the Twist Timascus with pearl inlays. Simply stunning! |
 Blurry |
 AJ, Buttons and Ciotti |
 with knives |
 Jim Smyth, Piter, Chris (Bux) |
 Tanya and Todd Begg |
 AJ with his big teddy bear |
 Watch out AJ! |
 Someone's gonna get spanked |
 an abundance of USN guys |
 Jeff's friend, Guro Jeff, another one of Jeff's friends, and Sniper308 |
 AJ and Brandon training for the "Return of the Squirrels" |
 ..."How does this dang thing work?" |
 SAS, Brandon, and some other guy |
 Dennis from Kershaw and Shaun Shepard |
 Blade is a cultural experience |
 Filled with exotic women! |
 B.R. Hughes award winning new Mastersmith, John Perry |
 ABS Forging Demo |
 The legend, Bill Moran |
 I'm in awe! |
 ABS Rope cutters, pre-competion meeting. Reggie Barker must be cheating the way that old man keeps beating out the young kids like Dan Farr and Adam. |
 Steven "The Blender" and myself |
 James Melby, myself and Steven |
 Reese Weiland with a small Hawkbill he put together |
 Tom Mayo and Dexter Ewing |
 Dex, Russ, Tom, Ida, Brandon, and Keith |
 Russ, AJ, Shannon and Jeyr at hte USN table |
 A squirrel with antlers |
 Blade Overall Knife of the year: Ken Onion/Kershaw Studlock Offset with MIM/HIP blade technology. Ken, Craig Green, Darrel Lewis |
 The most outstanding team in the knife industry. Going four for four out of fourteen possible awards. Kershaw, congratutions! Mark, Darrel Lewis, Gavin
Hawk, Tim Galyean, Grant Hawk, Craig, Dennis, Ken, Jeff, Jack, Thomas,
Yuji, and Larry. |
 Sal and Ken - Best Collaboration - Kershaw/Spyderco/Onion Spyker! |
 Sal, Ken and I think Gail (???) |
 James Coogler, and Joe Brum, in the background See2 and Ken Brock |
 Melissa (Texas Tactical Supply) and Michelle Coogler |
 Mike Draper, Eddie Baca, Tom Mayo, Bill Burke, Audra Draper and her son Chris |
 Frank Centofante and I |
 UW Mitch and Tim Galyean with the Junkyard Dawg proto |
 Taking a picture of a picture being taken |
 AJ, Miketrak and myself |
 Alex (TiChick), AJ and Jeyr |
 if it's worth shooting, it's worth shooting twice! |
 Ida giving AJ a little sneak preview of her Dominatrix skills |
 The Pit is where it happens |
 Fed who did Shannons new tat - the Hinderer Mustang Forge logo |
 Factory Award Winners |
 Custom Award Winners |
 ABS M.S. (mini-smith) James L. Rodebaugh |
 Dian Tanaka and Zach Whitson. Martial artists and knife systems developers (more about them coming up) |
 Ryan and a big ass Strider Spear |
Blade Show is
always the best. To those I promised a Virtual Blade, I apologize
- I got on my computer late late late Thursday night and not again until
Sunday afternoon. This post show pictorial will have to do - other
than that, see you in Atlanta next year! ~Mitch |