And, to highlight the weekend, I bought a #3-5 from Gary Clinton with Rick Bowles' scrim #009 on it. This is one of the first ten knives sent to Rick to scrim in 1981 by Gary Randall. Five of the knives had five inch blades and no butt cap and the other five had six inch blades with butt caps. All had black & white spacers and each have different artwork. What makes this knife doubly wonderful for me is that I bought #3-6 with Bowles' scrim #008 from Mitchell Harrison a couple months ago. I was amazed to find #009 at Blade and it really made my weekend. Rick Bowles was kind enough to send me an old photo of all ten knives and a copy of a letter to him from Gary Randall dated 5/18/1981.

- - -Buckspen