This year I received the BLADE Magazine 2022 Publisher’s Award at the 41st Annual BLADE Show in Atlanta. I am honored by the readers of BLADE® who have stuck with me through the years. Without your support I would have had a very short life as a knife writer.
I well remember the day BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame® member/then managing editor Steve Shackleford called and said Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Bruce Voyles, then editor/publisher of , had read one of my first brochures, “The Using Knive and Function.” It seems Bruce felt I could write something for the benefit of and its readers. I don’t know if he had noticed that I misspelled in the brochure’s title. I imagine he did though he never said anything about it. Anyhow, I told Steve I did not know an adverb from a pronoun and was absolutely no candidate for a knife writer! Steve said editing was his job. It took a few discussions and we learned how to work together.
