KNIFEOKCA 39th Annual SHOW • April 12-13 Lane Events Center EXHIBIT HALL • Eugene, Oregon April 2014 Our international membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” YOU ARE INVITED TO THE OKCA 39th ANNUAL KNIFE SHOW & SALE April 12 - 13 * Lane Events Center & Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon In the super large EXHIBIT HALL. Now 360 Tables! ELCOME to the Oregon Knife Collectors demonstrations on Saturday. This year we have Anyone can enter to bid in the Silent Auction. See WAssociation Special Show Knewslettter. Blade Forging, Flint Knapping, quality Kitchen the display cases at the Club table to make a bid On Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13, we Cutlery seminar, Knife Handle Designs, Martial on some extra special knives . want to welcome you and your friends and family Arts, Scrimshaw, Self Defense and Sharpening Along the side walls, we will have twenty to the famous and spectacular OREGON KNIFE Knives. three MUSEUM QUALITY KNIFE AND SHOW & SALE. Now the Largest organizational Don’t miss the FREE knife identifi cation and CUTLERY COLLECTIONS ON DISPLAY for Knife Show East & West of the Mississippi River. appraisal by Tommy Clark from Marion, VA your enjoyment and education, in addition to our The OREGON KNIFE SHOW happens just (Table N01) - Mark Zalesky from Knoxville TN hundreds of tables of hand-made, factory and once a year, at the Lane Events Center EXHIBIT (Table N02) and Mike Silvey on military knives antique knives for sale. Now 360 tables! When HALL, 796 West 13th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. is from Pollock Pines CA (Table J14). you arrive you can get lots more information April 12 - 13. Saturday 8AM - 5PM. Sunday When you arrive sign up for a chance to win a about the Knife Show and about the Oregon Knife 9AM - 3PM. special door prize. We will have a Silent Auction Collectors Association (OKCA) at the Club table, At the Show, don’t miss the special live Saturday only. Just like eBay but real and live. to the left of the entrance. COME JOIN US AT THIS 39th ONCE A YEAR KNIFE/CUTLERY SHOW!!! despite suffering seven stab wounds the War, soon OKCA Bowie Knife from sword canes and having been shot disappeared. through both the lungs and thigh. The They also had Challenge Visitor story of the “Terrible Rencontre” spread cool patriotic Guide from newspaper to newspaper across sayings acid the country, and Jim Bowie became a etched on the Welcome visitors to the OKCA Knife household name. These results of the blades which Show and our OKCA Bowie Knife fi ght, later called the Sandbar fi ght, were a real Challenge. You may have started to were not pretty, but grew in fame; and selling point. look around and seen a lot of big knives the “Bowie” knife legend grew with that Look for them around, more than normal. The Bowie fame, growing not only in popularity but at the Show. Knife is our theme this year. But it could also in blade size. be a little confusing, as there are some The invention of the cartridge bullet smaller knives being called bowies too. Sheffi eld, England knife manufacturers shrunk the size of the bowie knife. So here is a visitor primer to clue you soon grabbed onto this Sandbar fi ght Misfi res were less common, guns could into some of the bowies’ background and story by mass marketing bowie knives be loaded quicker, and the need for a basics. in a big way. Most had a clipped blade, more manageable sized bowie knife even though the original probably didn’t. resulted. You may ask if the bowie knife The guy who Most bowie knives came from England, is smaller is it as important or worthless? started the bowie though there are early American made A small bowie owned by Knife World knife craze is one bowie knives; but you better be prepared editor Mark Zalesky has won Best Rezin Bowie who to have a large hole cut in your wallet if American Knife, not once but twice, at gave his brother you want to buy one of them. the Natchez Bowie Knife Show; and you Jim Bowie his could buy a top end luxury car for what newly made knife One of the coolest mass produced he values it. California bowies are small while Jim was on bowies is the Ciphered Bowie that had but pack a big punch to the wallet if you his way to act as a second at a duel. The animals, even hunting scenes with deer want one. loaned knife was said to have a 9-1/2” being chased by dog packs and mounted long blade, 1-1/2” wide and it looked men, deeply stamped,versus acid etched, The surprising more like a butcher knife. On September up and down the blade. Some say the thing is that 19, 1827, Bowie served as a second in stamping caused stress fractures to custom made a friend’s duel held on the fi rst sandbar the blade leading to blade failure, thus bowies have been above Natchez, Mississippi. At the unpopularity; but others argue that it packing a real appointed spot the duelists each fi red was advances in acid etching that lead wallop in the two shots, missed; as neither man was to their demise after about ten years of price department injured they resolved their duel with production. Etching would surely be too, compared a handshake. With honor satisfi ed and less labor intensive versus stamping. to similar sized the unharmed participants leaving the Whatever the reason Ciphered Bowies antique bowies! You will have a chance fi eld, enemies on both sides decided it are hard to fi nd. to see some of the best custom made a good time to settle their differences; In the beginning Americans liked their bowies right here in Eugene. The artistry and a wild melee broke out leaving two bowies big, real big! Especially during in these knives should not only hold but men dead and another four wounded. the start of the civil War, thousands went increase in value over the years. If you Bowie managed to save his own life by out (especially Southerners) and got a big see a beauty from a maker just starting to dispatching Norris Wright with his knife, knife, with many having their pictures make his or her name, I say buy it while taken with their BIG Bowie Knife. you can afford to. The funny thing was after a few Read more about hollow handle bowies, months of full pack, twenty mile ciphered bowies, custom bowies, hikes, these big heavy knives got and get more bowie facts from our tossed aside. In stepped what is Knewslettters dated from September called the hollow handle bowie. 2013 through April 2014. You can fi nd Originally introduced during them by visiting our website where our the gold rush, these smaller, all library of Knewslettters can be found. metal, much lighter and cheaply Enjoy the Show and ask questions mass produced, bowie knives of our knowledgeable dealers and were sold by the scores during collectors. the Civil War years and after Page 2 What Can U Expect To See At A Knife Show? A knife is man’s earliest tool. It has holder or a visitor. Interest in this cutlery free at our Show. You never know what evolved from a simple tool to a symbol world runs from the historical to the that knife you use to dig weeds might for royalty and to an art form. It is used artistic. And in this realm you will see be worth. It might even stop you from daily in all facets of our lives and has knifemakers displaying their products. digging weeds with it, as has happened also become a protector of freedoms in You will also see suppliers of products in some cases. Or in some cases you our battles. The knife can be made of that are used to make up the knives. might want to even upgrade your weed steel but also stone, bronze, ceramic or This can be leather for sheaths, handle digger and attack those weeds with a other exotic materials. materials that are man made or natural, little class. tools to make knives and art forms that are specialized to enhance the knife with exotic material like gold and silver. The knife also presents itself to the artist who will use their talents for scrimshaw and engraving to make knives with artful expression. As in all collecting circles there are specialists that home in on special arenas of a subject. See the displays that adorn the walls on the perimeter of the room. This organization has encouraged These are truly museum quality displays. donations which are used for two Enjoy and learn from them. purposes. We have door prize drawings, On Saturday we and some pretty spiffy knives are given have seminars and to lucky winners. We will also have demonstrations that our Silent Auction on Saturday. These The knife at our Show takes on a will show the making are the extra special knives that are new defi nition under the umbrella of of stone knives, donated to help fund our event and are “anything that goes cut.” It can mean scrimshaw, culturally sometimes one-of-a-kind knives or a corkscrew, a hat pin, a sword, a unique knives, skills at special collector’s knives. Watch this pocketknife, scissors, a hunting knife, knife handling and the auction carefully and get involved. It is a military knife, an art form, a kitchen making of knives through forging.