Every June I exhibit at the Blade Show in Atlanta, the biggest knife show in the world, and afterwards visit and work with fellow knife makers in the US. This year my host was Jerry McClure, a very talented knife maker from Oklahoma.
The Atlanta Blade Show is the world’s largest cutlery show, which is open to the public for three days in early June, with some 750 exhibits dealing in everything cutlery related, with stands from commercial knife companies, custom knife makers, knife-making suppliers, tooling, and engineering suppliers. There’s nothing cutlery related that you can’t get, whether it is carbon fibre, exotic handle material, or the latest grinders. Everything for fans of knives is here.
I always like to set up my stand on the Thursday, as it gives…