2010 - 41st Annual Knifemakers Guild Show
The show kicked off on Friday. Honorary Guild members were admitted at 9:00 AM and the show opened to the public at 10:00 AM. We had a surprisingly good crowd on Friday for a work day.
Every table is not shown here. More photos by Edmund Davidson will be added when I get them.
Nancy
Hendrickson shows one of Jay's knives to an attendee.
My table
neighbor Paul LeBetard chats with attendees
Gil Hibben
shows his knives from the new movie "The Expendables" along with his other
knives.
Knife World
editor Mark Zalesky brought his new baby to the show and it didn't take my wife
Karen long to get hold of him.
Wayne Whittaker
Steve Mackrill
from South Africa
Jay Hendrickson
knives
Billy Mace Imel
The Guild Show
set up a nice memorial table for the late R.W. Loveless.
Guild President
Gil Hibben was surprised with a cake celebrating his recent 75th birthday
After the show on Friday evening the Guild held a reception for table holders and guests in the unique Rathskellar Room in the lower level of the Seelbach Hiltom hotel. This is a neat place and the only remaining Rookwood Pottery room in the world. The walls, ceiling and pillars are adorned with Rookwood pottery. The ceiling over the bar is carved leather.
A.T. and
Barbara Barr
Back to the show:
Robert Flynt
Being from
Mississippi, Robert Flynt used a familiar hurricane symbol on one of folders.
New
Probationary Member Marvin Winn shows off one of the many door prizes given out
at the show, a bottle of Makers Mark Kentucky bourbon whiskey signed by the
Guild's board of directors. Funny, I could have sworn that bottle was full when
he got it.
This beautiful
Bowie by Steven Rapp won the 2010 Judges Choice award.
Kenneth King
Larry Lunn
Stan Wilson
Paul Lansingh displayed some of his impressive collection including a display of knives made by past and present Knifemakers Guild Presidents. Every knife has a story and Paul is happy to tell you about them.
Some of Gene
Baskett's Colt 45 pistol grip knives.
Guild
vice-president Wayne Hensley
Koji Hara from
Japan couldn't make it to the show so he sent his son and daughter in law to
display his knives. show
Harry Matthews
James Ragsdale
Lee Ferguson
Jerry Partridge
Charles Turnage
with his great selection of mammoth ivory and mammoth tooth.
Always one of my favorites, Ronald Best
Ricardo
Mainolfi was very worried when the airline lost his knives on the way from
Italy. They eventually found them and got them returned to him on Saturday.
John Davis
Pam and Mike
Dilluvio
Keith Bagley -
Old Pine Forge
Sheila and
Larry Hostetler
Mike Yurco
Awards:
Doug Casteel
won the "Best Bowie" award.
Rob Hudson won
"Best Hunter"
Billy Mace Imel
won "Best Art Knife"
Steve Gatlin
won "Best Fighter"
Steven Rapp won
the "Judges Choice Award"
Warren Osborne
won "Best Folder"
Owsley
Brown-Frazier, founder of the Frazier International History museum, personally
selected the winning knife and presented the "Museum's Choice" award to William
C "Bill" Johnson.
Last year's
recipient of the "Museum's Choice award, Jerry Moen, made a special knife and
presented it as a gift to Mr. Frazier on behalf of the Knifemakers Guild in
appreciation for his fantastic support of the guild.
It is fitting here to tell you a little about Mr. Frazier as we are very honored to have his support and friendship. Owsley Brown Frazier is a philanthropist from Louisville, Kentucky USA who founded the Frazier International History Museum. He is retired from the board of directors of the Brown-Forman corporation, which his grandfather George Garvin Brown founded in 1870, and is one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business. He was raised in Louisville.
Frazier is recognized as one of the leading individual donors to Bellarmine University, Kentucky Country Day and the University of Louisville, of which he is a lifetime member of the Board of Trustees. He is a leading donor to Jewish Hospital in Louisville, including the Frazier Rehab Institute, which is named after his mother. In 2004, it was estimated that he had given over $500 million to charity throughout his life.
For much of his life, Frazier collected historic guns and knives. His collection began with a long rifle, made circa 1820 in Bardstown, Kentucky and given to him by his grandfather. This rifle was permanently lost in the 1974 Super Outbreak tornado which hit Louisville, and Frazier credits the event with sparking his interest in collecting historic weapons on a larger scale. His collection included weapons such as Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick", a 1866 Winchester carbine owned by Buffalo Bill Cody and guns used by General George Armstrong Custer. Most of the weapons were from 1840 to 1910.
In 2000, the Kentucky Historical Society asked him to present his collection in Frankfort, Kentucky. Thousands of people attended the exhibit, surprising Frazier and leading him to think about doing a long-term exhibition. In 2001, he purchased two former warehouses in downtown Louisville and announced plans to open a museum, initially called the Frazier Historical Arms Museum but later renamed the Frazier International History Museum once the Royal Armouries of Britain chose to display part of their collection at the Frazier. Frazier donated most of the $32 million in startup funds for the museum.
The Knifemakers Guild wishes to extend our sincere thanks to Mr. Frazier for his generosity not only to the Guild but to all that he has helped throughout his life.
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