Chris - this picture is for you and Jim! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



I LIKE em' !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Having seen photos of what happens to blades Jerry considers substandard, there is no way these knives will have any weaknesses! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I'm back from my shopping spree. I met several folks, Barb-B-Q, G19G26, resinguy, and Eric Isaacson among others from the BladeForums crowd. Also, hung out with jforbush and rainwalker for a while. I arrived just before the selling started; when it did, the section of table with CG SNFOs and Hell Razors emptied within seconds -- literally, nothing but bare table left. The NW SAR 5s lasted slightly longer, but within a few minutes, most of them were gone (admittedly, I took more than my fair share), although the last few hung around for almost a couple hours.

There were a few Satin Jacks -- I bought one, not the prettiest of the lot, but an unusual variant. Muddy Satin Jacks were supposed to come with Snakeskin handles, but apparently they ran out of Snakeskin, so one of the batch had Tigerhide (which was designated for LEs) -- that's the one I bought.

They made five SAR 5 color/handle combinations:
1) Olive blade w/ orange/black G10
2) Black blade w/ orange/black G10
3) Black blade w/ green/black G10
4) Sage blade w/ tan Micarta
5) Black blade w/ black Micarta

The crew didn't have any of the Olive SARs at Knob Creek, and they only had eight each of the others. They had a set of Friday boxes and a set of Saturday boxes (so there will still be good stuff tomorrow), but I was told that all of the SARs went out today. Jerry may hate them (I asked if that was just a marketing ploy, and was told that he genuinely does not like them at all), but I think they're OK and they were a terrific bargain. I bought ten of them:
three sage w/ tan Micarta on proxy, with an additional two for me, two black w/ black Micarta, two black w/ orange/black G10 and one black w/ green/black G10.

There were two black (logo-ed) Scrapper 6s, so I grabbed both of them (you can never have too many S6s). Also there were three tan (logo-ed) Yard Hooks -- I only bought one of them. I also bought one more Olive Swamp Warden (because I wanted an olive blade and missed grabbing the single olive w/ black G10 HR Little Mischief). Finally, I picked up a couple reflective lanyards that Eric's oldest daughter makes. Grand total for my purchases was $2410.80 + $156.05 (sales tax) = $2566.85. I'll get some back from the proxies, but still, it's been an expensive day.

jforbush and rainwalker both picked up some good stuff too, but I'll let them tell you about their treasures. Everybody there was great, and it was nice to meet them. If you're going tomorrow and want any SAR 5s, then you better get them from the 411 SARgaza on BladeForums tonight.