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"Plaza Cutlery Custom Knife Show" UPDATE 8-26-2010
Saturday October 2nd and Sunday October 3rd 2010
The "Plaza Cutlery Custom Knife Show"
will be held on Saturday October 2nd and Sunday the 3rd, 2010
This show will be a return of the old "California
Custom Knife Show" format and will be held at the Costa Mesa Hilton which hosted
our show 2 years ago and also held the last "California
Custom Knife Show". We can get 75 tables in the show so that will be
the maximum.
One difference is each knife maker will be asked to sign a pledge that they will not sell any knives till the show opens to the public and then wait 10 minutes so everyone has a chance to get to the knife maker they want to see. Some knife maker such as John Young and Ken Onion will do drawings a little later after opening. Each maker at 10:10 will then sell his knives and if more then one person wants the same knife they will do a drawing for that knife. Hopefully each person gets what they want if you are there first thing. We will also post the names of the makers below who make the pledge and the one's we know will need to do a drawing below next to their names. This way the dealers will not buy everything up, me included! :) We want you at the show and to be able to get a knife! This will not included knife makers who are delivering your knife at the show so they do not have to ship it.
This will be the same format as our old show
and will be held every year in the fall. This show will be about 50-60 tables,
hopefully more and we hope to increase each year. The show will be held in
the same room as this past show with an out door balcony.
Tables are open to knife makers, scrimshanders,
engravers, dealers and collectors. No factory knives or sharing of tables.
If interested in a table please email me at dan@plazacutlery.com . Payment is at the door and is $15 per-person or $25 for a two day pass. Cash only no credit cards or checks. Parking is not known yet!
Thank you!
Hotel reservations can be made at the Hilton and they say this is their lowest rate. We need the rooms for the room block so please stay at the Hilton! Thanks Dan
Our Show rate web page address is: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/SNACMHH-PLAZA-20101002/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
Show hours, both days is 10 to 4PM
59 of the 75 tables are sold, Contact Dan for table information
The below is the list of knife makers that I will invite but the show is now open to all Knife Makers, custom knife dealers, collector dealers, scrimshanders, engravers, invited small production companies (Reeve, Strider, William Henry, Busse and a few others should they want to attend) and suppliers. No sharing of tables or regular production knives (Emerson excluded and only Ernie, my rule). I will throw you right out if these two rules are not followed.
Underlined names are makers who are attending. I have only talked to a few so far!
Anyone interested in attending please email me at dan@plazacutlery.com Bill Ankrom Pledged Thad Buchanan Pledged Joel Chamblin Bill Coffey Laurent Doussot (Canada) Duane Dwyer Ernie Emerson Brian Forrest Dennis Friedly Stan Fujisaka Pledged Jeff Hall Koji Hara Phil Hartsfield jr Roy Humenick Rick Hinderer Pledged Ryuichi Kawamura (Japan) Greg Lightfoot (Canada) Kirby Lambert (Canada) Scot Matsuoka Pledged Kansei Matsuno Lloyd McConnell Mike McClure Ken McFall JB Moore Jeff Morgan Mel Nishiuchi Hiroaki Ohta (Japan) Ken Onion Drawing Pledged Keith Ouye W. D. Pease Pledged Darrel Ralph Chris Reeve Knives Richard Rogers Pledged Bill Ruple Bill Sanders Eugene Shadley Jim Sornberger Chris Stanko Steel Frame, Derrick and Leonard Mick Strider Shosui Takeda (Japan) Leon Thompson Pledged Brian Tighe Shigeru Tozaki Mike Tyre Al Warren Pledged Melvin Watanabe Pledged Richard Wheeler Hans Weinmueller Daniel Winkler Pledged John Young Drawing
Semi production knives invited and attending: Chris Reeve Knives Ken Onion Creations Strider Knives William Henry Knives
Dealers signed up
Duane Weikum\EDC Knives Jon Ukman\EbossHoss Dan Delavan\Plaza Cutlery Pledged Jack Alvarez Mark Strauss\Knifeology Pledged Neil Ostroff\ True North Knives Dave Nittinger Louis Chow Pledged
Displays Tom and Gwen Guinn Pledged
Info on our last shows!
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