Spring April 2013

BADGER KNIFE CLUB
Founded
October 21, 1984
Milwaukee, WI
Spring 2013
Badger Knife Club
28 Years Strong
Club Meeting Sunday, April 28 — 7 p.m.
The next meeting of the Badger Knife Club
(BKC) will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28,
2013. The meeting will be at the Three Harbors Council, Boy Scouts of America, 330 S.
84 St., Milwaukee, WI, lower level PieperPower Learning Center at 7:00 p.m. (Exit 306 off I-94 at S. 84
St.).
The last meeting scheduled for January 27, 2013, was cancelled due to adverse weather. That was the first time ever
that a scheduled meeting was cancelled. We tried to get the
word out to everybody; however, if you ever have a questions
concerning a meeting, you can call the BKC cell phone at
(414) 379-6819.
The Featured Program for the meeting will be reviewing
the various knife publications. . . books, magazines, catalogs,
etc. . . that are available for new and old knives . . and other
reference resources.
At our last regular meeting in October, 2012, the Progressive Attendance prize is at $20.00 when Barry Brunow, who
was selected was not present. The regular Attendance Prize
of $5.00 was won by Mike Kelly.
A special THANK YOU to the following persons who
donated items for the Club Raffle: Ed Brandsey, Bob
Schrap, Col. Joe Fox, John Fleming and Roger Wood.
Your donations of new knives, books and other cutlery
related items are always requested and welcomed.
Come and enjoy an evening of learning, fun and fellowship
while you buy, sell and trade knives. Bring the latest addition
to your collection or one of your favorite knives to show off
while enjoying the free coffee, juice and donuts. See you at the
meeting!
LAST CALL—2013 Badger Club Knife
Canal Street Cutlery 2-Blade Swell Center Jack—Pattern
#2136633—Made in the USA—w/ Velour Pouch & Box
Handle: Buffalo Horn—Black with white highlight streaks
(Special for BKC)
Size: 4 1/8"closed length.
Name _______________________________
Address ______________________________
City ______________ State ______ Zip _____
2012 Club Knife @ $99.00 = $ ________
Blade: D-2 mirror polished, flat grind large clip main blade
and flat grind small pen second blade.
Bolsters: Nickel silver.
Shields: Canal Street (Brass) & Badger Knife Club shields.
Shipping @ $6.00 = $ __________
Total enclosed = $ ________________
Mail to and make check payable to:
Badger Knife Club, P. O. Box 511, Elm Grove, WI 53122
Etching: 2013 Badger Knife Club. (Etch will be on main
blade.) Serial numbered engraved.
Price: $99.00
You must be a current paid-up annual or Life Member to
purchase the Club knife. All orders must be paid in advance.
The order deadline date is April 30, 2013.
Act now to be sure you get this year’s Club knife. This is a
beautiful knife that will look great in your collection. MAIL
YOUR ORDER AND PAYMENT TODAY ! ! !
Badger Knife Club, P.O. Box 511, Elm Grove, WI 53122
Phone & Fax: 414-479-9765 E-mail: [email protected]
www.badgerknifeclub.org
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“Knives on a Plane”
It was recently announced that the TSA is partially lifting a ban on knives on a plane. It is quite specific, so you
have to be very careful. Go to the web site of
www.kniferights.org and it will give you graphics of what is
and what is not allowed. Very informative.
2013 Blade Show
The 2013 Blade Show will be held from May 31 thru
June 2, 2013, at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, GA.
You can visit www.bladeshow.com for more information.
Several of our BKC members, including makers and
dealers that regularly attend the Badger Knife Show, will be
exhibiting at the show.
Those attending will include Cory Martin, photographer, who does the photography at the Badger Knife Show.
He will be available to work with you at the Blade Show.
This is the granddaddy of all knife shows and is definitely worth the effort to attend. See you in Atlanta.
B.S.A. Building Security
Two Volunteers Needed
The Three Harbors Boy Scout Council recently installed
a new building security system. It is a coded digital push
button that must be entered by the person in charge of the
group meeting. The doors can not be blocked open or an
alarm will go off.
Therefore, we need two volunteers at the meeting to
man the upper and lower doors to allow members to enter.
The doors must be manned from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
to allow enough time to have the members come in. Please
do not arrive any earlier than 6:15 p.m. or you will be
standing outside. We will not know the changeable code
until the day before the meeting. If you can volunteer to
man (or woman) one of the doors, please call Bob Schrap
at 414-771-6472 or the club cell phone at 414-379-6819.
Newsletter via E-mail
For those of you who have computer access, you can
view the Club newsletter at our web site at
www.badgerknifeclub.org and click on “newsletter.” We
want to eventually be able to e-mail your newsletter to you,
although we will still continue to mail printed copies to
those of you who do not have access to a computer.
We are doing this to help reduce the cost of printing
and postage of sending out the newsletter by conventional
mail. This will be a long-term process, since we have to get
your e-mail addresses and prepare the database for future email mailings.
Therefore, if you have an e-mail address, please
advise us by sending an email to [email protected]. In the subject line, please state “Email Newsletter”.
Broken Blades
We were saddened with the news that two of our
long-time members passed away.
Life Member Ken Deerwester on March 4, 2013
Member George Kauffeld on April 5, 2013.
We will fondly remember and miss them. Our condolences go out to their families.
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Please support the generosity of our makers and dealers that donate knives and other items to the Club’s silent auction
and Club meeting raffles. We are placing their business card ads at no cost. Thanks everyone. The Club truly appreciates your
support.
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Knife Safety Seminar
Our BKC member and custom knife maker, Dwight
Mason, put together and ran a knife safety seminar for
youngsters at the 2013 Badger Knife Show.
There was a nice group of youngsters that attended Saturday afternoon. The youngsters received instructions on
knife safety and upon completion received a certificate and
a new knife, courtesy of our BKC member and table
holder, Peter Albert.
We are hoping to make this a regular feature at our future knife shows. Thank you, Dwight and Peter, for making
this possible.
2013 Badger Knife Show—Comments
This year’s 30th Annual Badger Knife Show was truly a
success. We received many nice letters and emails from
table holders and attendees. I would like to share a few with
you:
From Joe Seale, table holder from Austin, Texas
writes:
“Many, many thanks for encouraging me to attend the
Badger Knife Show. This past week-end. It was one of the
five best knife shows that I have attended over the past
thirty-five years.
“You and your very capable, friendly, efficient helpers
did a most OUTSTANDING job organizing and conducting the show. There was great attendance, good fellowship,
fine/rare knives and best of all: REKINDLING OLD
FRIENDSHIPS THAT WERE BEGUN NEARLY
FORTY YEARS AGO!
“The hotel facilities were excellent. Their employees
were most courteous and helpful. The continental breakfasts were DELICIOUS. If the Lord is willing, we plan to
be back next year.”
From Dave Eberhart:
“My son and I attended the show Saturday and had a
great time. Very friendly people at the front door, a member of the club came over and asked if my son could have a
pocket knife, of course! There was a great selection of exhibitors and some really fantastic work. They were extremely friendly and encouraged us to handle their knives.
To top it off, one of them said he gives a custom knife
away each year to a youngster and this year it was for my
son. WOW. Great show, thanks.”
(Editor: That knife maker is Larry Franklin from
Stoughton, WI. Thanks, Larry.)
Show photos courtesy of Deborah Schulze.
Had a live two-hour radio feed from the show
WJVL FM and WCLO AM with announcer
Rob West pictured with Bob Schrap.
Doug Alcorn II did a flint knapping demonstration during the
entire show, drawing much interest from our table holders and
attendees! And he sold his first knife at our show!
Thank you Bob Schrap for successfully
running 30 BKC Shows! And for organizing
the BKC meetings. Job well done!
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Black Hat Award Winner
R. W. Wilson
Since 2005, the Black Hat Award has been given in the
memory of Mick and Judy Koval. Mick and Judy were the
owners of Koval Knife Supply and they were well liked and
known by many knife makers throughout the country. They
both passed away in a short span in time. Mick always wore
a black cowboy hat—hence the Black Hat Award. The
award was given to persons in recognition of honesty, integrity and fellowship in and outside the world of knives
and knife collecting.
This year the Black Hat Award was presented to R. W.
Wilson. “R.W.” is a true good-will ambassador of the knife
and knife making industry. His positive and upbeat attitude
is ever present. He travels extensively in the knife circuit.
Past recipients of the Black Hat Award include: Bob
Schrap, Col. Joe Fox, Ed and Kathy Wormser, Hank
Rummell, Kevin Cashen, Ed Brandsey, Wayne and
Pam Robbins, and Bob Stachowicz.
Congratulations to R. W., job well done
Winners!
This year’s Custom Makers’ Drawing knife was a
Mokume Letter Opener made by Chuck Hawes and the
mokume by Mike Sakmar.
The lucky winner of the 2013 Badger Knife Show Custom Makers’ Drawing was Paul Wuethrich from Maple
Grove, MN when his blue card was drawn on a custom knife
he purchased from Dwight Mason.
The lucky winner of the Win-A-Knife drawing was
Emily Lindquist from Elkhorn, WI. The knife was a
Leatherman Multi-tool furnished by the Club.
Congratulations and Thank You to our winners for participating.
Thank You! Thank You!
30th Show a Success!
The 2013 Badger Knife Show was a success with most of
the table holders expressing brisk sales. Attendance was excellent on all three days. Special THANK YOUS to Nancy
Schrap, Deb and Neil Schulze, Lisa Schulze, Char
Brandsey, Sybil Woodruff, Cecil Douglas, Bob Stachowicz, Jeanette Rochford, George and Marlene Jaeger,
George and Jean Cooper and all of the award judges.
I have no doubt forgotten somebody and, if I have, please
forgive me.
Silent Auction Donors!
THANK YOU to our winning bidders. We appreciate your support!
The Silent Auction went well and THANK YOU to the donors of the many items. They are:
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Tim Adlam
Peter Albert
Bill Behnke
Ed Brandsey
Collectible Edge
(Gary Glowinski) and CRKT
Clarence De Yong
Col. Joe Fox
Doug Gift
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Jeff Haines
Gil Hibben
Richard Johnson
Dave Kohls
Jerry Kohls
Diane Martin
Peter Martin
Bernice Metry
Glen Mikolajczyk
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Enneth Eugene Miner
Doug Ponzio
Dave Ricke
Pam Robbins
Wayne Robbins
Jeanette Rochford
Mike Sakmar
Marty Witek
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2013 BKC Show Awards
Bob Stachowicz, the Chairman for the Judging and Awards Committee,
is pleased to publish the results of the judging at the 2013 Badger Knife Show.
A. Commemorative Collection / Display Awards
1. Karl Hallberg – “Ivory Treasures” display. Includes
custom miniature Bowies and Fighters with all different
kinds of ivory handles.
2. Keith Jacobs – Factory collections of George Schrade
Knife Company and Ulster Knife Company.
3. Lester Levinson – “Babies” display includes assorted
miniature knives by many makers.
B. Knifemaking Awards
BEST CUTLERY ARTISTRY – Dale Sandrone
JUDGES’ AWARD – Tim Adlam
BEST BASIC KNIFE (Table Price $300 or Less) – Peter
Martin
BEST FANTASY / ART KNIFE – Kevin Cashen
BEST FIXED BLADE KNIFE – Peter Martin
BEST FOLDING KNIFE – Ken Erickson
BEST-IN-SHOW – Peter Martin
BEST-IN-SHOW – Peter Martin.
An “AK-47” automatic folder. The blade is ladder pattern
mosaic Damascus, the bolsters and exterior lockbar are also
mosaic Damascus; the release is a mokume miniature cartridge/bullet. Handle material is black lip Mother-of-Pearl.
BEST BASIC KNIFE (Table Price $300 or Less)
Peter Martin.
A dropped point hunting knife with Birdseye Damascus
blade, amboyna burl handle, and stainless steel pins.
BEST FIXED BLADE KNIFE – Peter Martin.
A Bowie knife with feather pattern Damascus blade; Damascus guard, ferrule, and butt cap. The handle is African Gemsbok horn. Leather sheath.
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BEST CUTLERY ARTISTRY – Dale Sandrone.
Leather knife sheath with hand-carved buffalo on the front
and rope-work on the back.
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JUDGES’ AWARD – Tim Adlam.
Engraving on all four bolsters of a Tom Overeynder folder.
Playing card theme with each bolster showing an engraving
of a different face card; King (of spades), Queen (of
hearts), Jack (of diamonds), and Joker (clubs). Lifelike
presentation with a multitude of detail shown.
BEST FANTASY / ART KNIFE – Kevin Cashen.
A 16Th century inspired (left hand) dagger; double edged
blade of 320 layer O1/L6 twist Damascus; wood handle
entirely wrapped in twisted iron wire with twisted copper
wire accents; matching sheath and cloth slip case. Sole
effort by the maker.
BEST FOLDING KNIFE – Ken Erickson.
A Champaign (or Bartender’s) knife based on an antique
George Wostenholm & Son pattern. The blade is CPM-154
steel, the center liner is coined, and the handle is antique
tortoise shell over 22K gold to bring out the highlights.
Badger Knife Club
P.O. Box 511
Elm Grove, WI 53122
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2013 BKC Meeting Dates
January 27—April 28
July 28—October 27
Annual Badger Knife Show
March 28, 29 and 30, 2014
See you at the meeting!
Club Dues
Check the mailing label for your renewal date. If you received a dues statement with this newsletter,
please send in your dues right away. You can pay 1, 2 or 3 years at a time at $5 per year. You can mail in your dues
or pay at the next meeting. Check made out to Badger Knife Club. Your continued interest and support is truly
appreciated.
Upcoming 2013 Shows
We try to present information on upcoming shows in our area. For additional listing, check out current issues of
KNIFE WORLD and BLADE magazines.
April 27-28: Wolverine Knife Collectors Club Show at Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, MI. Call Pat
Donovan 586-786-5549
May 31—June 2: Blade Show at Cobb Center, Atlanta, GA. Call 877-746-9757 or visit bladeshow.com
Sept. 19-22: Knifemakers’ Guild Show at Seelbach Hilton Hotel, Louisville, KY. See knifemakersguild.com
Oct 11-12: Annual Fall Knife Show by Northern Lakes Knife Co., Janesville Conference Center. Call Bob
Schrap 414-771-6472
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