2017 OKCA Show April 8th & 9th

[Mossdancer]

Phil and other Travelers. I am on my way to Eugene when I get off this bit box. I will attempt to be in the vicinity of Dales table between 8-830A.M. Saturday. Will be roaming around trying to a head start on this Friday member day. Should anyone have interest I am bring my Truncated set (plus the 51 Jet) of Gerber Shorty's, A couple of nice Randall's and a few others. See ya there. Everybody be safe and God Bless.
Moss,

[philco]

Here's a few shots I took at todays show. It is a big knife show and there was a sizable crowd there to take it in.

I got to meet a couple of my personal knife heroes, Mr. Ed Holbrook who wrote the book on collecting Official Scout Knives, and Jay Parker, former star of "Knives Live" television.

There were several very interesting displays set up for everyone to view.

I even met a few of AAPKs finest there but those pictures will come later. Great show and a great day. Now I got to get ready for the AAPK banquet.

[glennbad]

Great pics so far, Phil!

[LongBlade]

Thanks Phil ... keep 'em coming if you can and other AAPK members too ... much appreciated!! That show is a bucket list item for me if I can ever make it

[danno50]

Love to see knife show pics! Thanks for posting those, Phil.
Dan

[orvet]

We had an AAPK dinner at the Ocean Sky Chinese Resturant. We had 18 people at the dinner including wives and family members. I think that were11 registered AAPK members at dinner.
I think this it's the largest off line meeting of AAPK members.
We have pics, but I need to get home and download them so I can post them.

Needless to say, we had FUN!!!

[orvet]

PS- It is 1118 hrs I am dead tired but my feet hurt do bad I had to get up and rub some Badger Foot Balm on them.

Now back to bed, hopefully to sleep!!

[Schradenut]

Many thanks for the pics Phil, they were great. I had been hanging out for info on the Show.

The dinner must have been sensational Dale. I am hanging out for some of the story's from Doug. I really miss that sort of communication. Continue to enjoy being there.
Tony.

[Ivoryman]

Shots at the show with Barry from Gunstock Jacks, Derrick Bohn from KSF, Charlie Compangna, Orvet and Philco from right here at AAPK. Great show, excellent exhibits, couple bargain GEC's I picked up, a Krusius Solingen Gobernador and great people everywhere, kind, courteous, friendly and happy vendors and crowds.

[Tsar Bomba]

Boker Store Display for sale including knives

How much would something like that set a fella back?

[philco]

Boker Store Display for sale including knives

How much would something like that set a fella back?

He had it priced at $1,999.00 Not that bad really. There were a bunch of knives that were included. Not quite sure how many but the number 52 popped into my head. There were several knives in boxes in the bottom drawer that don't show in the picture.

[Mossdancer]

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286513

Here are a few

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286495

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286496

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286497

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286498

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286499

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286500

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286501

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286502

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286504

I had no idea how hard it is to even attempt a photo through glass with overhead lights. Sorry about the quality of some of these. Buck collectors will enjoy these tang stamps. Colonel Bowie you will recognize, That is Charlie Compagna with an AAPKer on either side, Orvet and his spouse. A few more on next entry.
moss

[Mossdancer]

photo's

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286527

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286528

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=286529

Various handmade, some very nice packaging followed by Philco and last Steve Goddard and his spouse. Lots of AAPKers there. And one huge bunch of very nice folks. Thanks OKCA.
I think there were a Hundred thousand or so knives, probably more. I am going to not walk for a few days.
moss

[danno50]

thanks for the additional photos Ivoryman and moss! Can never be too many knife show pics.
Dan

[orvet]

Here are a few pics of AAPK members.
I will post some more pcs of the dinner later, but I am going to bed real soooon!
We did have 11 AAPK members and 18 people total at the AAPK dinner. I got lousy pics, but will post them later.
Hopefully Photoshop will clean them up some.

This is Friday morning while I was setting up. Mossdancer beat a lot of the table holders to the show!

This is Ivoryman who stopped Saturday on his way north.
Nice to make a new friend in person!

It was nice to meet an old friend, in person for the first time!

This is my lovely bride Alyson on Sunday morning just before the show opened.
We stopped and got coffee; it was GREATLY NEEDED!

This is Dale (268BULL). He is a local & was there all 3 days. He was lucky to be able to go home and get a nap when he needed to.
This is the last half hour or so of the show Sunday afternoon. Dale was as tired as I was!

[dweb1897]

Just got home from the show...all I can say is

Friday morning started out with a rainbow

Friday morning setup

Charlie and the Usual Suspects

Meeting Christine Tucker from GEC

Dale

AAPK dinner

Sunday end of the show

[philco]

Here are a few more dinner pictures.

[jmh58]

Nice pics!! Thanks for posting.. John

[orvet]

Being a native Oregonian and not traveling often to the eastern side of the country the only knife shows I have been to are here in Oregon. The OKCA show, the OKCA many show and the Blade Show West, which was held in Portland Oregon for two or three years before they canceled it.

Not having attended shows in other locations I am used to the crowds at the OKCA show. Phil commented on how many people were there compared to many of the shows he had attended back east, with the exception of the Blade Show in Atlanta; which he says is well attended.

I thought I would post a few pictures that were taken right around my table so that you could get an idea of the number of people it passed by in a days time. I believe these pictures were all taken on Saturday, April 8.

While this is a really bad picture of Moss it does show you the distance between the tables when there are no people there. This was taken shortly after 10 AM on Friday morning. You have to stand outside until 10 AM before they open the door so you can set up your tables. This is probably 10:20 AM or 10:30 AM Friday. It is not mandatory for dealers to set up the tables on Friday. The fellow next to me on the left works on Fridays. So he gets there early Saturday morning and sets up.

This is looking down the same direction as in the previous picture. This is looking toward the front door from my table. I caught the top of Phil’s head in the picture. This is Saturday morning before it got too busy.

Some pictures of the Saturday afternoon crowd.

This will give you a little idea of the number of people that came to the show, and how busy it is.
The traffic flow was about like this from 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday. Sunday the traffic was maybe a little later but we were only open for six hours and traffic was heavy for four or five hours. It really is an amazing show!
I thought all knife shows with this busy until Phil commented on how busy it was. I made several good sales in the last hour of the show on Sunday. My wife also took several pictures. I will see if I can get them from her and post them if the better than the ones I took. The lighting in the show is not great for picture taking.

[cbfd]

A big Thank You ,to everyone who posted pictures. Bill

[edgy46]

Thank you to all the members who took the time to post pictures of this show.

[peanut740]

Here are a few more dinner pictures.

Phil,where is the food?I don't even see anything to drink!

[philco]

Here are a few more dinner pictures.

Phil,where is the food?I don't even see anything to drink!

The service was a little on the slow side so we took pictures while waiting on our waitress to show up.

She was a regular ray of sunshine.

[peanut740]

Here are a few more dinner pictures.

Phil,where is the food?I don't even see anything to drink!

The service was a little on the slow side so we took pictures while waiting on our waitress to show up.

She was a regular ray of sunshine.

She used to work at one of our local eateries.

[Schradenut]

To all you lucky guys that attended the Show, you were very fortunate to see so many amazing knife displays.
Many thanks to all that posted pics to appease the unfortunate blokes like me that didn't get there. From all accounts it was a huge success. I know my mate Doug Webber is still smiling.
Tony.