Eugene 2001

Eugene Knifeshow 2001

The 2001 Eugene show was the first real show I've been to. This year at around 415 (or was it 450?) tables it is now the largest (table wise) knife show in the world. The Bybee's (Titanium-Man.Com) were kind enough to let me tag along with them. This show marked the first time they had a table at a show - I know this is a shameless plug for them (hey it's my site) but if you need titanium, you need to talk to them.

Words cannot describe how great this show was for me. I got to meet a lot of makers who I've only read about in the magazines, people I've emailed with from the various forums, and got to hang out with friends like the Bybee's, Daniel and Nancy from BladeGallery, Tom Mayo and Ken Onion.

You can click on some of the names to link to their website

Bybee's waiting to get in!	Bybee's first table	The Opening Ceremony
Mr. Mayo	Chocolate Covered Mac Nut Salesperson	Robert Flint - Anchorage, AK
Rob Simonich - The Talonite Cowboy	Sorry, I got his last Talonite Pikuni	Jim and Will from Camillus
Larry Chew	Part of the Randy's Chew Knives Collection	Grant and Gavin Hawk - keep an eye on these guys!
Bob Lum - no relation	Ron Lake - most amazing seams ever!	Jot Singh Khalsa
Audra - First Woman Mastersmith	Audra and Mike Draper - First Husband/Wife Mastersmith team to be? :)	Josh Smith - Youngest ever ABS Mastersmith
Daniel and Nancy of BladeGallery.com	Nancy made THE BEST table display I saw!	Junko and Michael Fong
Roger Dole	Deryk Munroe	Pretty nice work Deryk
Rick Chandon	Nate Clark	Michael Murphy - Running Dog Knives
Ed Schempp - Winner of the rope cutting competion	Martin Schempp - Excellent Flintknapping	Tom and Gwen Guinn - Tremendous miniature collection
One of Triple Aught's Display Cases	MT Ultratech and Harkin's Customs