Chuck, Brenda and Jessica Bybee ,(Alpha Knife Supply) and Liong Mah getting the table set-up

Chuck sitting proudly behind the TImascus (tm) display

Ida from Bladeart with Rob Simonich

No hottie dangling from the ceiling this year - the Opening Ceremony was a Bagpipe group

A true masterpiece from John Lewis Jensen (I actually saw this piece when I went to John's Shop!

His folder won Best Art Knife! Surprisingly this is his first knife show award.

Gay Rocha - very neat forged pieces, but for $15,000 I would hope he would sharpen it

ABS Mastersmith, JD Smith was the keynote speaker at Saturday night's banquet

Joe Drouin who always displays a portion of his amazing collection is moving out east - I'll miss drooling over his collection

Mick Strider and Rob Simonich

The Three Stooges

The proud owner of his first buffer!

Grinding Competition

Nick Wheeler - flat grind or hollow grind, doesn't matter to him

Jon Christiansen after the inital "paper cut" round

Ed Schemp on the follow through - breaking his own record

First and Second place, father and son, Ed and Martin - Ed cut through 9 ropes, and Martin 8.

Ed Caffrey with the folder I owned for about 5 hours

Sitting around on Sunday night, Chuck's dad bought it off me

Temper lines are cool!

Packing up to say good bye Eugene

Liong and Jake - a few wrong turns, but they made it back to Seattle in one piece

Outside Gilmer