2010 Arkansas Custom Knife Show

[SeekHer]

E-mail received from A.G. Russell knives today:

[center]2010 Arkansas Custom Knife Show
Saturday and Sunday, February 20-21, 2010
Robinson Center Exhibit Hall
424 West Markham
Little Rock, AR
Located adjacent to the Doubletree Hotel[/center]

For more information:
Arkansas Knifemakers Assoc.


Goldie and I will attend the show on Saturday. We will pay for your admission to this show either Saturday, Sunday or both days. Just print, fillout and bring the enclosed coupon and present it at the door. The show will bill A. G. Russell.
We look forward to seeing you there.
all the best,

A. G.
Founder, A. G. Russell Knives

[blackeagle603]

It's a trap! Lock up your wallet. Freeze your credit card in a block of ice.

[308Mike]

It's a trap! Lock up your wallet. Freeze your credit card in a block of ice.

That doesn't help if you have the numbers memorized!

What's it going to take to get a major knife/blade show here at the San Diego convention center???? I'd be ALL OVER that one!!!

[SeekHer]

Mike I've posted the Calif ones for you, that's the best I can do...Why doesn't Southern Calif. Knife Collectors put a show on?

[308Mike]

Unfortunately, they were too short notice and just a little too far away. That's why I mentioned them coming to our large convention center - that'd be real sweet!

[SeekHer]

From this issue of Blade Magazine:
Upcoming shows:

MARCH 19-21 PASADENA, CA Knife Expo 2010, Pasadena Convention Center. Call 619-417-4329 e-mail KnifeExpo2010@att.net or visit http://www.scblades.com/

APRIL 24 SOLVANG, CA Solvang Custom Knife Show, Hotel Corque. By invitation only. Call Nordic Knives 800-992-6574 http://www.nordicknives.com/

JUNE 5 BREA, CA The 2010 Cal Knives Custom Knife Show, Brea Community Center. Call Joe 714-746-6196 or visit http://www.calknives.org/

[308Mike]

COOL! The one in Brea is closer. THANKS!!

[308Mike]

SeekHer - Do you happen to know if any of those makers who're going to be at the Brea show build/make Japanese blades?

[SeekHer]

Sorry Mike, I don't know who they have on their list...check with their link...

From their roster, I know by reputation Brian Fellhoelter, Joe Caswell (won Blade Award last year) and Red St. Cyr as I've seen their work in some dealers pages...Jim Ferguson has been featured in many magazine articles over the years and isn't cheap--makes some amazing Damascus...From visiting their site this Jerid Johnston has some very interesting blades for fit and finish...

Sorry, that's the best I can do but they'll have lots of makers, not listed, plus collectors selling their "overs" and probably a few custom dealers as well...

How far is Solvang from Sunnyvale? We're going to be there around then as my daughter is giving birth around that time and if I can get away, I'll go, I'll need to get away for my sanity, but it's all dependent on when she and her younger sister (in Mass.) give birth, both around the same time--Mass. is first by three almost four weeks...From zero to two grandkids in one month...

[308Mike]

Unfortunately, there isn't going to be much of a show there other than a few manufacturers and probably not even close to my time's worth, especially since it's: By invitation only.

If there was going to be a large show with many vendors and lots of blades to buy, I might be interested (especially if you [SeekHer] were coming down from the frozen North), but if there isn't much for sale except to wholesalers and manufacturers and not a LARGE selection, I'm sorry but there just isn't enough to get us to go to that event - despite you being there with family.

As it stands right now, as an "Invitation Only" event and I don't have an invitation, nor am I a knife/blade maker, I can't justify the trip to Solvang.