Artisans of Cutlery - Blade Show

[bill flynn]

I posted this on BF, so Anyone who saw it there...feel free to move on to the next post :D

anyway, some of you will recall that Tom Ferry, Jon Christensen, Mike Vagnino and Dave Lisch had a booth together as Artisans of Cutlery.....ACE

I met some of the guys at our CKCA dinner the night before, and came by their booth the next day and was really impressed by the booth, the concept and of course...the KNIVES. In addition, this was my first Blade Show ever :)

As it turned out, I ended up with a knife from each of them....and ended up winning the raffle knife as well.

Thought I would present a "group shot"

http://www.fototime.com/B90F67E80461F52/orig.jpg

left to right: Jon Christensen, Collab between Dave Lisch and Tom Ferry (raffle knife) , Tom Ferry, Dave Lisch and Mike Vagnino

Really great bunch of guys - and the knives speak for themselves!

Bill Flynn

[bill flynn]

Here is a Coop montage of Tom's knife:

http://www.fototime.com/601039B0827F483/orig.jpg

and here is one of the collaboration knife

http://www.fototime.com/D3BB39248B99D46/orig.jpg

I had the opportunity to watch Coop as he shot these images, and I have to say I learned alot!

I think he has another shot of Jon's knife as well - hopefully he'll chime in

Bill

[Barry Connell]

Great looking knives Bill. Really like the Ace knife.

[Kevin Jones]

Beautiful knives.
I liked their booth concept as well.

Thanks for sharing the photos.

[Jon Klein]

Bill you really did well there. Their concept works and is a lot of fun. However like you say it is the knives. This is a fine group of some of the most talented makers out there. Your acquisitions are a great example of their work. I hope you and others will have the opportunity to make it to the ACE show. You will not be disappointed. Really nice haul and great photo's.

Congratulations, Jon