Were you at the show Jim ? It looks like MM says they are putting more offerings out @ 6:00- is this normal protocol ? Thanks
I've never been to Blade; a quick Internet search indicates that Atlanta is 317 miles from Louisville (effectively, where I live). It would be difficult to make that round-trip and spend time at the show in one day, so between food, lodging, gas, and wear on the car, the trip just isn't worth it to me.
Now Knob Creek is another story; it's only about 30 miles away and has become a no-brainer since discovering Bussekin. I figure that the money saved by not going to Blade is about the price of a moderate chunk of INFI, or multiple blades from the Yard, and the Spring shoot was only a month ago. At Knob Creek, the tables usually stay full; as things are sold, they just pull more stuff out of boxes under the tables to restock. In Spring 2008, they tried a different approach, the crew brought boxes labeled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday; once your day's stuff was sold, nothing new was available until the next day and, while lots of Customs remained, the CG tables were mighty barren after a couple hours on Friday morning. That isn't how it normally works though.
That show was the release of SAR5s (I bought 7 for myself and proxied 3 others). I also bought a rare SJTAC (it's a CG, but has LE handles), a tan yard hook, and two black scrapper 6s with logos; it was also the show where the machine gun shoot was rained out so they sold knives at the motel. Afterward, the crew got bad sick with the flu -- several were hospitalized and the shop was closed for a while.
Blade gets a lot more new offerings and is much more of a social event -- Knob Creek is about buying steel.
