OKCA 32nd Annual • April 14-15 KNIFE SHOW Lane Events Center & Fairgrounds • Eugene, Oregon April 2007 Ourinternational membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” You Could Win... a new Brand Name knife or other valuable prize, just for filling out a door prize coupon. Do it now so you don't forget! You can also... buy tickets in our Saturday (only) RAFFLE for chances to WIN even more fabulous knife prizes. Stop at the OKCA table before 5:00 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are only $1 each, or 6 for $5. Join in the Silent Auction... Saturday only we will have a display case filled with very special knives for bidding. Put in your bid and see if you will take home a very special prize. Free Identification & Appraisal Ask for Bernard Levine, author of Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values, at table N-01. ELCOME to the Oregon Knife have Blade Forging, sword demonstrations, the raffle. See the display case by the exit to Collectors Association Special Show Scrimshaw, Engraving, Knife Sharpening, purchase tickets and see the items that you could WKnewslettter. On Saturday, April 14 Blade Grinding Competition, Wood Carving, win. and Sunday, April 15, we want to welcome you Balisong and Flint Knapping. And don't miss Along the side walls, we will have more than a and your friends and family to the famous and the FREE knife identification and appraisal by score of MUSEUM QUALITY KNIFE AND spectacular OREGON KNIFE SHOW & SALE. knife author BERNARD LEVINE SWORD COLLECTIONS ON DISPLAY for Now the Largest Knife Show in the World! (Table N-01). your enjoyment, in addition to our hundreds of The OREGON KNIFE SHOW happens just once PLUS, every hour we will be GIVING AWAY tables of hand-made, factory and antique knives a year, at the Lane Events Center & Fairgrounds FREE knife and knife-related door prizes. Fill for sale. Now 470 tables! When you arrive you can EXHIBIT HALL, 796 West 13th Avenue in out a coupon when you enter, and watch for your get a listing and map of exhibitors, plus lots more Eugene, Oregon. April 14 - 15. Saturday 9 am -6 name to be posted near the prize showcases and information about the Knife Show and about the pm. Sunday 9 am -3 pm. on the Big Screen moving sign. (if you miss the Oregon Knife CollectorsAssociation (OKCA). posting, we will MAIL your prize). We will also At the Show, don't miss the special live have a raffle Saturday only. Anyone can enter demonstrations all day Saturday. This year we Come have fun at our show and wish a happy 32nd anniversary to us!!! Japanese Cutlery We will have a special guest this year visiting from Japan. Shinichi Watanabe of WATANABE BLADES is coming to the Oregon Show for the first time. He can be found at table P01. He has a web site at http://www.watanabeblade.com/english. A write up from his page is interesting. Watanabe Blade Biography History I'm the sixth bladesmith in the line of Watanabe bladesmiths in Sanjyo-city Niigata-prefecture Japan. Therefore, my family have been bladesmiths since my great, great, great, grandfather. Their brothers and their brother's children were also bladesmiths. We have been bladesmiths from generation to generation since 1897. I know about our ancestor's history back to 1897, but I don't know much about it before that. Last year, my grandfather's house was moved to make a new road. During the construction, many remains were found. There were a lot of iron ore, water stones, some pieces of Yet another table to visit will be Michael Bell at table M12. I fire place bricking, some pieces of bellows and slag. And they dated consider Michael Bell to be one of the top Japanese sword makers in back to the Heian Period in 794! It's possible that the Watanabe the world. Michael is an Oregon resident and a strong supporter of family has been bladesmiths since then! the Oregon Knife Club. -------------------------- We will also have many table-holders that specialize in Japanese swords at the Show. If you happen to have a family heirloom that is a If you are interested in following more on Japan and cutlery, visit Japanese sword, this Show will be the one to help you find the Murray Carter at table T01. Murray spent many years in Japan history of that item. Bring your sword or any cutlery item that you making knives and studying cutlery. Murray will be sharing his want to learn more about to the Oregon Knife Show. knowledge and experiences with us during his seminar on Saturday, April 14th at 1 pm. Demonstration by Murray Carter We will also be having a live demonstration of Japanese swords by th Christian Griesi at 12 noon. Christian has a table at L13. The subject On Saturday April 14 at 1:00 will be Modern versus Ancient Budo. This will give you a chance to do a “google” search on the subject before you come to the Show. A Guide to the Proper Pronunciation of Japanese Blade Related Terminology Forging You can butcher your food with your cutlery and let others butcher the pronunciation of Japanese cutlery Demonstration related terms. I will teach you to easily master the few terms related to cutlery; and when you speak them in This year our forging front of other knife people, they will be amazed at demonstration will be on your impeccable command of Japanese. Saturday and Sunday starting at 11:00 AM. Raymond Richard, Gresham, OR, will conduct this demonstration of forging a knife. You are invited to watch how a knife is forged and listen to the blows of the hammer against steel. Listen also as Ray answers questions about his craft. Page2 makers blame the shows for being too large, or that there are too many shows. The Changing World of Knives That's kind of like blaming the Earth for being so large. My advice to makers who aren't selling knives is that they make something different because it could By Wayne Goddard be a change that wouldimprove theirsales. Just whenI'm gettingused to a certainbrandof epoxy, sandpaper, or whatever, it One thing that hasn't changed is the purpose of the OKCAAnnual Show which changes.After some trial and error I find a favorite dish at a restaurant and then is defined in the bylaws. "B. The purpose of this association as also stated in the it gets changed or taken off the menu. I wish some things would be left without Articles of Incorporation, filed with the State of Oregon, is to: 1. Provide an changing. organization which will unite persons with like interests in the field of knives, to gather together for the purpose of exchanging ideas and fellowship. 2. Further Other changes are good. At one time I saved files on floppy discs. Then zip knife collecting as a hobby in both the antique and modern field, as well as the discs, then CD discs and now on DVD discs and an external hard drive. A CD collecting of related items. 3.To further the general knowledge of the knife field will hold the information from 400 floppies; the DVD will hold the information by providing educational displays for the members and the general public to see from 20 CDs. Those are the kindof changes that save space andtime, I like that. and enjoy." Forty-five years ago I clobbered together a homemade grinder that I used to There isn't anything in the bylaws about the selling of knives. Yes, there is a lot shape, smooth and buff the blade of my first knife.All I had in mind wasto make of buying and selling that goes on at the Show. There are those who want the myself a hunting knife, and then I made more and then even more. While OKCA Show to be a selling place exclusively for the types of knives that they making that first knife, I had no idea that knifemaking would become my life's think are appropriate. I will remind them of the motto we've had from the start. work. I didn't know that my motivation to make hunting knives would change. As to what can be sold or displayed: "Anything that goes cut." That, of course, What happened is that new challenges came along and sometimes I got tired of doesn't include any items that would be illegal by city, county, state or federal doing the same thing over and over. There was one period of time when all I laws. wanted to do was make folding knives. Damascus steel came along and that possessed me for more than a few years. Today all I want to do is make another The 2007 Show is just around the corner, and I'm looking forward to it with all Bowie knife. When I hold a finished Bowie knife in my hands, it does the anticipation of a child waiting for Christmas. I've never been disappointed something good for me that is hard to explain. It probably has something to do and always pleased with the newthingsI see andlearn. with owning them for a little while, or is it the size, or perhaps the history they have? I simply can't get very interested in making most other types of knives; I do get excited by the next Bowie knife that's floating around in my mind. That's a change that's been good for me.