Famous for Promoting the Holding collection and an Edge! display of Buck Knives since 1988 Great Knives Since 1902! September 2018 CLUB NEWS by John Foresman In nearly every September issue, I expound on the club’s success at the Blade Show. I would need to double down to do justice for this year’s show. The Blade Show honored the BCCI with their annual Industry Achievement Award. This esteemed award honors those who have done things above and beyond the call for the knife industry over an extended period of time. Wow! I sure am proud to be a part of such an amazing club!!! And to add the icing to the cake, our exhibitors once again took all the top Blade Show display awards! Congratulations to all the winners! I’d also like to thank everyone listed below for putting in the effort and expense to promote Buck Knives by displaying their collections: Brent and Dee Schindewolf, Brian Hugh, Norm Sevensma, Larry Oden, Pat Donovan, Frank Meek, Alan Mott, Ed Cooper, Larry Garrett, Tim, Sharon, Natalie, Sarah, and Caleb Lindsey, Conner Danksin, Owen Dady, Gene Merritt, Bruce Cannon and Craig Heflebower. It was awesome to have three first time exhibitors with us this year. I encourage you to build a display and join us next year! You will find it to be a very gratifying experience. Our 30 year anniversary event has come and gone, but it will surely not be forgotten by anyone who attended! I don’t know how it happens, but each anniversary event seems to top the prior one! I want to thank Larry Oden and his Event Planning Committee for a job well done. Our seminar leaders, artisans and volunteers all did an outstanding job in making this event the best ever! I so very much enjoyed seeing the wonderful fellowship amongst attendees. I can’t wait for the 35 year anniversary event now! After experiencing the Blade Show and the anniversary celebration, I am left with a warm and fuzzy feeling when I reflect back upon the spirit of volunteerism among our members. From manning the club table, to helping with display set ups, and the list goes on and on, we have so many members with servant’s hearts. To everyone who has lent a hand, I offer a hearty thank you! You make this club a very special one. The 30 year anniversary knives have sold very well. We still have a few of each model except for the Ironwood 110. Buck Knives is using an outside vendor to gold etch the 212 blades. The finished blades that have been returned to Buck are not up to their quality standards. This has caused a series of setbacks. If you have ordered a 212 and have not yet received it, please hang in there a little longer! We will get them to you ASAP! Happy Collecting, John Foresman LORI’S CORNER The Buck Collector Club celebrated treasured members and friends. I that day despite their 30th Anniversary here in loved it! my telling the pacific north west with a kick I applaud our entire Buck staff for Chuck that I off banquet Tuesday evening their hard work and extra hours they thought cars July 24, 2018. The event began put in making this event beyond were designed with a stirring video honoring amazing at our Buck Knives to the driven in Chuck's life and his commitment facility. I also applaud the Collector the rain. “Not and support of the club since it’s Club officials and committee this one,” he beginning. It also gave a glimpse members who worked tirelessly said with a grin of his 57 Chevy Convertible at the over the years to plan these events and all guys around him agreed. 2008 20th anniversary picnic at in the detail and that effort makes It would only be on display for our house; The video highlighted them unforgettable events. viewing under the portico. various BCCI members and their Chuck had worked very hard to impressive Buck Knife collections Because of health issues, what I’ve termed as an “avalanche” create a beautiful 2 acre park with and it honored those that have taken a paved path winding through the our knives and created beautiful of orthopedic & spine surgeries the last two years I was not up park to a gazebo shaped patio at special edition knives each unique the end of the park. His goal was to within the artists own gifted talents. to hosting the usual end of event picnic at my house this year. The have it finished for the BCCI picnic I remain awed at the depth our club picnic had become a tradition. The that year. At the end of the path members appreciate Buck Knives first one done up here was in 2008, near the gazebo patio is where we and the loyalty and respect given weather was perfect and Chuck’s planned to have 2 BBQs set up for the Buck family. They’ve made ’57 was a highlight for some fun cooking and other food service. tremendous financial investments in excursions. It lived up to his license The lawn under the pines was their unique collections and they’ve plate 57 FUN. new and fertilizer attracted worked hard to preserve the history He’d planned to offer that same both Baldfaced hornets and and legacy of Buck Knives by Yellowjackets in abundance! The creating prize winning displays. option for the 2013 picnic but… weather became both a curse and a lawn literally hummed a dull roar at The bonds between Buck Collector blessing that day. ground level with hundreds, maybe Club members run deep. The unique thousands of hornets. Large nests camaraderie evident in every club I'd received a call the day before will house over 700 hornets. event reflects the loyalty and respect that a huge rain storm was coming on Friday (day of picnic) and Worse a few days before Andy given to each member of the club Houser was helping grandpa water including children and teens. The we would have to move to plan B. That meant no BBQ or food the park and he got viciously five year anniversary events stung on both legs. He had a are treasured “family reunion” service could be outside at the end of the park and food and eating terrible reaction on both legs each experiences. This year was no the size of a large man’s hand. I exception. It was a true highlight of would have to be in our garage. Fortunately our garage is huge so was horrified! We’d never had my summer! (Chuck was still here this problem or been invaded by for the 25th anniversary in 2013 and setting up food service and some tables inside were not a problem. hornets! Yellow Jackets, yes but not this event brought back to my heart hornets. many treasured memories.) Other tents and awnings were set up on the lawn to protect those that We set about hanging dozen of Over the next several days at Buck wanted to eat outside and enjoy the traps and we learned hornets are not Knives the lobby, store, plant tours view from up here in the rain. attracted to Yellow Jacket bait traps. and seminar venues bustled with They are vicious meat eaters! Had an air of excitement. It was hard What seemed to be a downside to the picnic would later prove to to set traps with rotten meat. Got a to walk through the lobby and not lot of them but barely scratched the get “captured” and pulled aside for be a blessing. And of course there would be no rides in the ’57 Chev surface population. When all else exciting conversation with so many seemed to fail in getting rid of them 2 I prayed a desperate prayer for help. take a bite out of hamburgers or hot and Mindy’s wedding August 22, I couldn’t bear even the thought of dogs without the person noticing 2015. our club members getting viciously and that merits huge stings inside The 57 brings fond memories of stung by our “uninvited guests.” the mouth. Chuck and is as close as we can get With the rain coming I knew it Later that week Chuck had to go these days to honor the man that would be safe inside the garage but to the ER for an IV treatment and sparked admiration by the club and who wants to come up here for a we saw several people come in our family and to to bring honor in scenic picnic and get stuck sitting in with exactly those stings inside the my heart for the man I’d loved with a garage…? mouth. They were terribly swollen all my heart for 56 years. Thank We’d had Sarah’s wedding neck, face and mouth. Again I you club members for bringing reception in the Garage. It’s really thanked the lord for absolute joy to my heart this summer as very nicely finished inside so with containment of our uninvited you honored him, and thanks to many hands working we cleared out guests! John Foresman and Larry Oden for stuff and Detailz made the garage The miracle of the rain and the chauffeuring that day. look like a fine dining event with a protection God provided has Lori Buck beautiful buffet. We were as ready brought tears of appreciation to my PS Over the years we’ve lost as we could get, and the BBQ’s eyes many times even as I write treasured club members as they’ve were placed under portico by our and remember this.