Well I’m here at blade! After waking around all day and meeting makers I am struck by a few things…
1. Most makers don’t know how to sharpen
2. Most knives are designed “function follows form” instead of the other way around like knives should be designed. There’s a lot of “pretty” knives here, but few real users that would have their efficiencies maximized by blade geometry and handle geometry! Very interesting for sure.
Love hearing about your experience there at BLADE…… glad you got to meet Clay and all. Looking forward to that myself one of these days….
I’m glad you mentioned these points…..
I got my WE just under a year ago. (My world has changed a lot in that year.) I went to the Oregon Knife Show completely intimidated by the makers & purveyors.
I gained a lot of confidence at that show. (Thanks, again, especially to Bob Nash & Emily.)
A few weeks later I went to the knife show in Seattle with 50+ of the makers you’ll likely see at BLADE and still felt intimidated… Until after I started taking a chance and revealing that I sharpened.
There really was a surprisingly small percentage of the makers that I felt had any grasp of sharp.
And the whole form/function dynamic is a true core issue in overall design integrity of the product.
And I’m so looking forward to watching you travel the path in the next couple of years to your own table at BLADE.
Thanks and Keep the reports coming!!! Excellent.
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For Now,
Gib
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