BLADE SHOW CUSTOM KINGS PART I
The winning knives in the custom knife judging competition of the 40th BLADE Show are a sharp and shiny lot, and the judges who selected them came away duly impressed. Trying an approach new for this year, we re-corded the judges’ comments on why the winners won. The thinking was such information would be invaluable not only for BLADE® readers but for knifemakers in general. We think you will agree.
New for 2021 was the Tony Bose Best Slip Joint Award, named in honor of the great BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame® maker who passed away in November 2020. In keeping with Tony’s search for excellence, the BLADE Show picked four outstanding judges of knifemaking talent—ABS master smiths Harvey Dean, Mike Quesenberry and Jim Rodebaugh, and long-time custom knife purveyor Les
