-- by Carolee Boyles
Saturday: After 15 years of SHOT Shows, I’ve learned well the lesson about wearing comfortable shoes. And now that we’ve outgrown the Las Vegas Convention Center and
spread out into huge tents in the parking lot, the amount of walking required to cover the entire show has increased by at least a third.
After a morning’s worth of obligatory meetings and press conferences, I finally got onto the show floor. There’s no doubt that the number of people at the show has burgeoned. The floor was a mob scene, and all the different languages made my ears hurt. My first stop was the Lone Wolf Knives www.lonewolfknives.com booth. They had their usual complement of knives from designer Paul W. Poehlmann, with their patented Paul Axial locking mechanism. However, this year Lone Wolf Knives has introduced some new “gun and knife” sets featuring the work of Native American artists David and Ron Yellowhorse. The two sets are real collectors’ pieces, at about $4000 each. Expensive, but absolutely gorgeous.
Ka-Bar’s www.ka-bar.com knives are a sharp contrast to those of Lone Wolf. This year is Ka-Bar’s 110th anniversary, and the company has created a commemorative knife in a presentation case in recognition of it. They’ve also created a 75th Anniversary Purple Heart knife to go along with their series of other commemorative knives.
Bear & Son Cutlery www.bearandsoncutlery.com has created an impressive Bowie knife with a cocobolo wood handle and a ladder Damascus steel blade they’re calling the Gold Rush Bowie. It joins several other Bowie knives offered by the company. As stunning as they are, I have to admit that I’m more impressed by the thought of what early knife makers had to do to make the original Bowie knives.
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