In an effort to keep all the Blade Show 2019 photos together in one thread, from y'all who are or were there, I invite you to post them here. If your file size is too large, we'll will resize them and post for you.

Identify folks if you can.

Thanks,

Buck
Table 17V

Any chance that someone can make videos of the presentations? ...so those of us who can't be there will be able to see?

My daughter with Billy Poyner at the Show today. Billy sold her a Glock at his store a few years back.

And Billy’s brother from another mother.

She made the rounds.

The rarest Randall? The most desirable Randall? I'm not qualified to speak for anyone but myself, but I think so! Thanks to Tune for letting me examine up close and hands on!

Wally, thanks to you and Lori for all your help. It was great to see you guys and all the Randall Knuts!!

It was a great show. I heard several dealers say it was their best ever.

See you next year!

These 3 photos are amateur at best, but it's my favorite display of the show, Mitchell Harrison's unparalleled collection of 1940s All Purpose Fighting Knives, including the phenomenal "Zacharias" type fighter, as well as a 1942 era "Commando". !!

Mitchell, I added photos of your collection, didn't think you'd mind! We had a blast, I think I owe you a case of Four Roses now at least!

Once again, amatuer shots, but hope you get the idea. This is Scott and Gail Maynard's collection of model 25s, including his engraved presentation from Randall Made Knives on the occasion of his 25th year of service to the Randall shop. (NOT Factory!)

Aaron Johnson's display of a sizable collection of collateral ephemera and items associated with Randall Made Knives. Many of you already know Aaron is, for lack of a better term, the Shop Formans "sidekick and protege' at the Shop.

Wally
thanks for posting the photos, I hope to attend again in the future, I hope you guys all had a great time with friends and picked up some good stuff

Peter

Cookies! (Courtesy of Dr.Workmans daughter)
At the Saturday morning (8am) annual meeting of the Randall Knife Collectors Club. I have no exact figure on attendance, but a pretty good turnout. As always, Scott Maynard led us in prayer, there was news from the President (the good Capt), news from the shop, and an excellent presentation on the charity the RKCC has chosen to support.
Becky Caruso gave a great talk about the very humble beginnings and how it has so quickly grown, and I speak from personal experience when I tell you it's a great cause. When soldiers deploy to hostile areas, many do not have the benefits of living on a "Foward operating base". Often there are scouts, observers, intelligence gatherers, and a full gamut of jobs requiring them to be on their own, self sufficient without a roof, running water, and so many amenities we take for granted daily. This is the target group of soldiers this great program aims to support. In 2004 it was a very common occurrence for myself and 8-11 other men with me to operate "outside the wire" for up to 8 days at a time. The charity is called J.O.S.H (just our soldiers helpers) and I hope James and Becky will chime in with more details. They've already shipped hundreds (if not a thousand or so) boxes of basic need items, I would guess like toothbrushes, toothpaste, beek jerky, hand sanitizer, etc, etc. and I see this as something great to get behind. Postage is awful! Bo Randall was all about supporting the American fighting man and I'm sure we all are too!
As you can read in the newsletter, (if you don't have one, you will soon) a memorial fund raiser, supported by a raffle has been instituted to create a memorial fund in the name of Suzanne Lambert, to support the program J.O.S.H.
You can bet your bottom dollar Kenny Lambert loves his wife with every bit of his heart, and she is dearly missed by all who knew her. Recently other members have passed, Ed Giles, Cal Barnlund, Alvin Hightower, and a little further back, Randall giants like Perry Miller and Rhett Stidham. I apoligize in advance for anyone I've missed. This memorial will help keep the memory of our lost friends and family, while supporting brave men and women who put their lives on the line without question or reserve for the love of the soldier in the foxhole next to them and for freedom and the American way. No greater love!
There were also several drawings, everything from RKCC coffee cups to one lucky lady who took home a brand new Copper Companion! I even won an A.G. Russell knife that his company produced as gifts for all the Randall shop employees this past Christmas. (Am I an honorary employee now???)

Wally,
Thanks for the posting. I'm certain a great time was had by all! There was a great deal of knowledge and experience gathered there for sure.
Walker

Please re-read the above post, I've added a lot more details.

Good stuff Wally.
Thanks for posting.

Peter Kaufman... WE have missed seeing you these past few years.

Wally, great pictures and summary. The meeting was great! Jimmy Bedgood made an appearance and brought along a knife he made that was auctioned off.

Wally is pretty dead on about J.O.S.H. almost all of us are touched in 1 way or the other by service men and women.Kathys passion has long been to support them, WE share that passion. Thank you to Tom and the Maynards for your co contributions =]

Thanks Wally.
Walker

James,

Great seeing you all at Blade!

Becky did an outstanding job describing JOSH and all that gets done by Kathy, you both and your friends for our Service Men and Women.

Tom Flynn

More pictures to come. We are trying to catch up on some rest!!

Got scooped TWICE this year... once by someone in this photo!

Starting left to right:
James: A bit of the grey stuff starting to happen in that beard. Don't worry it's the look of the future.
Ken: You look magnificent as always.
Becky: Always a lady in any group.
Grant: How did you get in this photo?
And the young man? He looks happy to be there!
Glad you all had a great time.

That is our nephew Aidan, it was his second Nlade show.

Like I said, happy to be there. So, did you buy him anything?

Gave him room and board... was that NOT enough.... ????

Aunt Becky....

Not even a folder???

Kid brought his own money, bought his own knives.

In fairness I was gonna get him a BMK pocket knife...but Zac Brown scooped me on it.... YES... THAT Zac Brown!

Good Kid! From Good Family!!

Aidan is a good kid.
Had at least three knives on him Sunday.
He just smiled when several people told him to keep close eye on Ram.

Dennis

Dennis,

Aiden needs to sleep with one eye open

I want to add that Chris presented a plaque to Gary Clinton, from the R.K.C.C. for his continuous support during the meeting Saturday. It's Amazing how much can get covered in an hour. Maybe Chris will chime in, if we missed anything.

Lori,

Check your PM

Ken Lambert
RKCC CM-020 RKS #3610
NRA Benefactor
FOP

Gary does a great deal of work for the RKCC, donating for the club raffles, presenting great educational seminars that often give the opportunity to see hands-on some rare knives most of us might not otherwise see. His recognition is well deserved!

Wally

I agree with what you said 100%. Gary, and his late father, are true assets to the RMK collecting world.

I have to tell you that I believe even with the problems regarding the Renaissance Waverly issues, that this was the BEST Blade show in the past 15 years!!

Cash was flowing, moods were great, friends galore everywhere!

Great displays, Mitchell and Duke McCaa's awesome collections that they brought to sell/trade (including my favorite of the show, an all stainless STN model 18-5 1/2, WOW), Buck running around making us all pose all weekend!! Wayne Jordan making a two day cameo! Tommy from Blue Ridge wheeling and dealing!!

Caps meeting was awesome with about half a dozen people giving input, some great giveaways, including a Randall (ty Gary), a beautiful drop point knife (that I won!!) and a funny $20 commemorative story to boot!!

And I do believe that Gary Clinton's seminar on the relationship with RMK and NASA and it's history from the late 50's to today was the most informative seminar I've EVER attended!! He was (along with Sam) very gracious in his information leaving guesswork behind while giving us some educated speculation on who, what when and where!! Aaannnddd Gary gave away a model 17 to a lucky attendee!!!

What a show!!! Don't let anything keep you from next year's Blade! With the continued rising economy it is going to be even greater!! As if that's possible!!

KenKan's (Kenny lambert) fantastic display of model 20s, including a brown micarta Ward Gay, low S Ward Gay, Seperate S, and a couple of carbon blades, plus a slew of nicely optioned more modern blades.

Some of Billy Poyner's model 14s. Gotta love that Jade and Ranger green! Sorry for the glare...

And Here's Becky and James Caruso's display, I loved the theme, all leather and fighting hilts!

There are so-o-o-o many ways to collect Randalls!

All of these displays are outstanding.

Larry

P.S.: Wish that Gary's seminar had been videoed....

The glare is hiding a rarely seen leather Clinton Special. Other than the Randall's I have been gifted, it is my favorite in my collection.

That sheath for the Clinton Special is awesome.....how about a better picture James!!!

I actually tried...and the "limitations" of this forum stumped me again... sorry. =(

Then send it to me

Blade 2019 gets. Warlander cases when you just don't know when to stop!

Email the pic, James. Lori or I will put it on here for you.

Chief,

Great blade show; you have some haul there.

Amy's work are some of the best cases, love the snake skin inlays. I bought a wine bottle carrier with the snake skin inlay.

Tom Flynn

Great gets all around Chief.
You pairing up with custom sheaths?

Very Nice
Ladies and Germs
Sharpi

Some shots of David Loomis' awesome display. First, a set of the Randall Knife Society blades...

Next, some dealer specials, all in black micarta!

More black micarta!

Thanks Tom .....saw your wine carrier, lol you & Guido got the snake ones!
Warren there aren't any custom sheaths for the big knives to be found. have to go else where & have them made.

Dr. Workman's "Nasa" handle material display, with collateral items including the model 17 "Astro". Classy stuff!

Good thing you know a Gal!

Absolutely!!! She said that she had plenty of orders taken at blade.

Speaking of Presentations..............

I thought I would introduce myself and add a few pictures to this post. I'm Barry Lambert (son of Ken) these are some pictures that my oldest son Matthew took from the meeting Saturday morning and a few of the club table's that I'm very partial to.

Good looking picture. Thanks to y'all for posting.
Walker

We are VERY happy to have had you all there Barry. Thank you for coming and for the pictures. Most here are VERY partial to your father =)

It was great getting to meet you and club members I had heard about for years,especially having dad light up saying come over here I want to introduce you to ??? or ??? , and I'll never remember everyone.
yeah he's got to be special after putting up with me for 53 years!! Love ya Pops!!

Great pictures and maybe some day I might get to go.

Pap

I have many more to edit and many more to clarify as to who's who and what's what..."BUT"...Here's a couple of pics of The Ol' Captain's display, entitled "NICE WOOD"!
Stay sharp, Capt. Chris

Secondly, we continue with The Ol' Fart's: NICE STAG!
Stay sharp, Capt. Chris
PS: Thanks Matthew for the pics...CCS

Chris, the only one we are missing now, is Dennis's display.

If someone could "double-check" and make sure all displays are shown here I would appreciate it. Thanks to all of our RKCC members who took the time to put together a great representation of Randall Made Knives! I know that Dennis even actually "made" at least one of his display cases. A great showing all-n-all!
Stay sharp, Capt. Chris

Great display from Dennis, a Westmoreland tribute, and three? of the 26 "C" marked sale only knives!

2...of the Big C knives...

I always get cofroosed on those...

Finger griped amber stag 19 for the win!

A few more snapshots around the room

To add to Matthew Lambert's photos of the RKCC Meeting on Saturday morning, here;s a few more.

Looks like it was a great time! My cousin was at blade and said the Randall displays were impressive. From what I’ve seen here I’d have to agree! Maybe one of these days I’ll be able to go

Mitchell Harrison is always "patient ", or perhaps "tolerant" is a good word, while setting up his display at BLADE he let me handle the "Zacharias" and a 1942 Commando, both knives have the mysterious red initials carved in the butt, as far as I know, only 4 RMKs exist with the carved initials in the butt. Anyway, I love handling those rare oldies!

Wally! I love sharing them. That's why we do it! I appreciate you and Lori being on "the wall" watching over all of the displays!

Well Said!

I also want to chime in and add my big Thank You for you both being on watch. It gives us all a chance to display some of our collections with the comfort that someone is there to answer questions.
Thank you!

We'll take that job fulltime!

You can put my name on that list too Wally, gives me a chance to sit down for a spell.

Awesome knives!

Michael, you and the Mississippi mafia are the true "keepers of the watch". DW's family is always nearby, and a couple others, like Rob Windsor help "pull guard". And of course, James and Becky, ever faithful. Lori and I really enjoy it, a place to rest from time to time, and a great place to meet everyone! Bunches of people introduced themselves to Lori and I, so it's great to put faces to all the names in the Randall community. It almost feels like I should be paying someone to hold my spot!

I also want to add to Wally's post that Dennis and Dr. Workman to be included in this group! They were great!! I have to go behind Wally sometimes. He is older than me, you know! He may be slipping just a little!

I'm glad someone pointed out Mississippi's finest for ALWAYS being there.
Everyone chops in and it's great to see these faces every year 8-)

Gail's father Frank, REALLY enjoyed meeting people and "bragging" on the collection we brought!! And Wally and Lori can attest to just how "alert" he was from time to time, Lol...I wish we could have got a picture!!

It's always a great time to see everyone, and actually that is the #1 reason we so look forward to Blade every year...the PEOPLE!!
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He's your father too...own it!! He's a sweetheart!! =)

I like it when he wins a "door prize" at the meeting. He's happier than a faggot in Boystown!
Best, Capt. Chris

uncalled for phrase

Fag(fag)noun 1. An extremely annoying, inconsiderate person mostly commonly associated with Harley riders. 2. A person who owns or frequently rides a Harley.

1st post and that's it? Wow!
Capt. Chris

Joe, I guess that makes me a Fa*, I will let my wife know immediately. 36 years together and we both never knew. I am learning on this Forum.

Capt. Chris I will be happier than a Harley rider at Sturgis if I can get my newsletter this weekend too!

Too Funny, Eric.
This weekend's dedicated to just you Bro!
Best, Capt. Chris

Scott, I absolutely love Frank!! And, I agree with James, He is a real Sweetheart!! Can I adopt him as my father in law also??

That is from south park eric. The episode was about the changing of the meaning of the word. Fag does not refer to homosexual males like it used to. younger folks now use the word to reference annoying and inconsiderate people.

The word "gay" now means "lame", stupid, etc.

The Harley reference was in the episode and the metaphor behind the story.

Joe, My bad. I think my kids watched that along with the Simpson's and Family Guy.

How can a generation that grew up watching those TV shows be so easily offended?

Eric, your kids excepted.

Tom -

the episode was from 2009. Most of the kids nowadays don't watch it. They are too preoccupied with social media and/or to stupid to understand the satire.

Now a days "those" guys are referred to as "Joes"...

Lol

And NOW this thread has really gone off track!!!

Most kidding aside...Pops really enjoys Blade! Loves hanging with his grandson Dano', at Blade AND at Comic-con in Orlando for 3 days!! He's a rock star with the nerds also!! Everyone wants a Grandpa like him!

Yup, that's the attraction for me.

A little shopping here'n'there, maybe drop off a sheath project, but meeting familiar faces and swapping war stories is the main reason.

The People, and the Marietta Diner!

Wally,
If you leave the Diner hungry something's WRONG!!!!

Ken Lambert
RKCC CM-020 RKS #3610
NRA Benefactor
FOP

Ain't that the truth.

Somewhere I have a pic of their cookies, each the size of a dinner plate.

I had a great time at Blade this year.
A big thank you for all the great displays and to all the people that “guarded” them.
I made some new friends at the display tables.
Two Border Patrol Agents from New Mexico asked if there really was a was a “Border Patrol” RMK and if there was if i had ever seen one and what it looked like. The next day they came back and one of them had a huge smile on his face and a #14 RMK in his hands.
I had the honor of taking Ronnies daughter and son in law around to all the people that knew her dad and see the surprised look on their faces.
Saturday i spent time with my son just walking the isles and almost missed Garry's great lecture on RMK and NASA and that night had supper with 17 others at the Marietta Diner!. I think our table created a fire hazard. A little wheeling and dealing with the Capt., James Behring and Amy Grace and it was time to head home. Thanks for all the great photos that have been posted.
And thanks to Billy, Ken, Wally, Lori, DW, Dano, Ram and Becky for their friendship.

Photos to follow.

Dennis

We should be packing for blade. Oh well.
Here are a few photos that I promised. People at the display tables.

One more.
Billy you better keep an eye on those two