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Adventure In Your Hand Issue 5 Continued on Page 3 Today’s column is way beyond late, and I apolo- gize to Gary for its tardi- ness. My excuses are that I have been to Wanen- macher in Tulsa and there are a million and one things to accomplish for our show. Now, on to the details and others: We, as an organization, are still in need of a qualified and dedicated trea- surer. John has been filling in on a temporary basis. This job needs to be filled on a perma- nent basis by a member. If you are willing and capable I would like to discuss the position, its responsibilities, AND its rewards (and I don’t just mean some thank-yous). Please step up, we could use the help, especially as John be- comes more involved in show preparations. Annual Knives are upon us. This month is se- lection month for our Inaugural Club Knife or Knives. I personally spoke with Fight’n Rooster (Sterling Buster) over the weekend and there is nothing that he can do to help us at this time. He does not have any pearl stocks on hand and new productions aren’t due in until next month. That leaves us with a couple knives and whatever you members are bringing for consideration. I have announced our FIRST show. In case you didn’t know, it is Oct 10-12 at West- World in Scottsdale. When I found out that this venue is available to us for LESS money than Mesa I was dumbstruck. Not only is it less money, it is a LOT less money and nearly double the space. Our space contract is for 20 THOUSAND square feet, their minimum con- tracting space, out of over 120,000 sqft. We do have to rent our own tables and I am actively getting quotes. Even after paying a rack rate estimate on tables and chairs the hall costs us over a thousand dollars less than Mesa. You might also notice that the show is THREE days, those three days ALSO are in- cluded in the savings over Mesa. Anyone of you that is themselves or has friends, neighbors, or associates in the party rental business please give me a call. Any discounts that I can get above and beyond what we would get, as a non-profit will certainly be benefi- cial. Tables are $75 or $60 each if buying two or more tables. Electricity is available, which is something that I have to still investigate be- cause of it being handled by an outside con- tractor at WestWorld. RV parking with elec- tricity, water, and NO sewer, but a dumping station is available for up to 400 units at a cost of $20/night payable directly to WestWorld. An item of note is a firearms ban on the en- tire grounds at WestWorld. This is not my rule, or it wouldn’t be a rule. I suspect that this has to do with the grounds being the location of the stables for the Scottsdale Mounted Police, which makes it some sort of “government” fa- cility. In Tulsa, John and I worked on signing up dealers and exhibitors. John passed out over 300 flyers to knife people. We received paid reservations for Fight’n Rooster Knives (Ster- ling Buster – son of Frank Buster, and company owner) and Mike “Whiskers” Allen (President of the PKA). Many other knife people have promised to come over for the show. Please send in your table application, I des- perately need your money to begin our adver- tising campaign. A display ad is already in print for next month’s KnifeWorld. Our show will be advertised in the NKCA magazine, Blade, and others. Your help in advertising
Transcript of Adventure In Your Hand - Copper State Cutlery Association —
Adventure In Your Hand
Issue 5
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Today’s column is way beyond late, and I apolo-gize to Gary for its tardi-ness. My excuses are that I have been to Wanen-macher in Tulsa and there are a million and one things to accomplish for our show. Now, on to the details and others:
We, as an organization, are still in need of a qualified and dedicated trea-surer. John has been filling in on a temporary basis. This job needs to be filled on a perma-nent basis by a member. If you are willing and capable I would like to discuss the position, its responsibilities, AND its rewards (and I don’t just mean some thank-yous). Please step up, we could use the help, especially as John be-comes more involved in show preparations.
Annual Knives are upon us. This month is se-lection month for our Inaugural Club Knife or Knives. I personally spoke with Fight’n Rooster (Sterling Buster) over the weekend and there is nothing that he can do to help us at this time. He does not have any pearl stocks on hand and new productions aren’t due in until next month. That leaves us with a couple knives and whatever you members are bringing for consideration.
I have announced our FIRST show. In case you didn’t know, it is Oct 10-12 at West-World in Scottsdale. When I found out that this venue is available to us for LESS money than Mesa I was dumbstruck. Not only is it less money, it is a LOT less money and nearly double the space. Our space contract is for 20 THOUSAND square feet, their minimum con-tracting space, out of over 120,000 sqft.
We do have to rent our own tables and I am actively getting quotes. Even after paying a rack rate estimate on tables and chairs the
hall costs us over a thousand dollars less than Mesa.
You might also notice that the show is THREE days, those three days ALSO are in-cluded in the savings over Mesa.
Anyone of you that is themselves or has friends, neighbors, or associates in the party rental business please give me a call. Any discounts that I can get above and beyond what we would get, as a non-profit will certainly be benefi-cial.
Tables are $75 or $60 each if buying two or more tables. Electricity is available, which is something that I have to still investigate be-cause of it being handled by an outside con-tractor at WestWorld. RV parking with elec-tricity, water, and NO sewer, but a dumping station is available for up to 400 units at a cost of $20/night payable directly to WestWorld.
An item of note is a firearms ban on the en-tire grounds at WestWorld. This is not my rule, or it wouldn’t be a rule. I suspect that this has to do with the grounds being the location of the stables for the Scottsdale Mounted Police, which makes it some sort of “government” fa-cility.
In Tulsa, John and I worked on signing up dealers and exhibitors. John passed out over 300 flyers to knife people. We received paid reservations for Fight’n Rooster Knives (Ster-ling Buster – son of Frank Buster, and company owner) and Mike “Whiskers” Allen (President of the PKA). Many other knife people have promised to come over for the show.
Please send in your table application, I des-perately need your money to begin our adver-tising campaign. A display ad is already in print for next month’s KnifeWorld. Our show will be advertised in the NKCA magazine, Blade, and others. Your help in advertising
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the show is greatly needed. Take flyers to all of your friends and pass them out. A mailing campaign is also coming soon, if not before the April meeting.
Membership is doing great. We are up to 40 now, with our first Youth, Max Frank (Konrad’s son). We look forward to having you and hope that you can talk up our club and convince your friends’ parents to bring them to the meetings also. Without the spring of youth we participate in a dead hobby. Do what you can to support the interests of youths in knives.
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Mumbly Peg was a game that many of us played when we were young. This was the game where a jackknife was open (one blade all the way, the other at half-stop) and thrown or dropped from various body parts into the ground. The loser of the game was made to root a stick out of the ground with their teeth, yeah…….. THAT game. Well, I intend to bring a version of the game back to our show. The name of the variant was called, Baseball. Baseball was played by flipping the knife into
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the ground and scoring was done by how the knife landed, similar to “Pass the Pigs”. This is the game that we are going to play at the show, without the wooden peg part.
Mumbly Peg (Baseball variant) will be open to players in two divisions, 8 through 14, and 15 through old age. The Youth Division will be a 32-person field with a cost to enter of $5 each. The Adult Division will be a 24-per-son field with a cost to enter of $10 each. The prizes, respectively, are a stag 3 blade Fight’n Rooster limited edition 1of100 knife valued at $200 and a pearl Fight’n Rooster limited edi-tion 1of100 knife valued at $275. At the time of award I hope to have specially crafted pre-sentation boxes for them as well as commem-orative etchings. The knives will be on display up until the time of the contest. The games are scheduled for noonish on Sunday.
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Lest you think that I have lost my mind and am trying to toss our insurance policy away, I have come up with a very safe manner in which to hold the games. Contestants will stand behind a short wooden wall and toss their knives into a split of palm tree or more likely a thick piece of construction foam. An independent score person will tally the scores and advance players onto their next rounds. Special knives are to be constructed that do not have sharp edges and do not fold.
I also have MANY ideas to make our show a success. Others have ideas as well. Some of those ideas I intend to keep a bit close to the vest at this time. Some of you might also have ideas. I would like to hear about them, no mat-ter how wild or crazy they might seem. Write them down and get them to me. ALL ideas will be given thought. Even a small part of an idea might be useful.
In place of my reprinting of old catalogs this month I give you a table application and first published version of the show flyer.
One last thing that I need to ask is for mem-bers to submit to myself or Gary, a short auto-biography about you and your knife interests. These will be published in the newsletter. "
Steve
We have had another great meeting and gained a few more members. Our table at Gun Shows is at-tracting a few new mem-bers at each show. We all need to bring friends and any possible new mem-bers to the club meetings. On this and the next pag-
es are a few pictures of the March meeting and auction. As you can see by the auction sched-ule on page 8, April’s meeting is our quarterly large auction. These auctions are very impor-tant to the club, they are helping to raise the moneys necessary to put on our first club show in October.
Something we should all keep in mind is the fact that we will be needing to start coor-dinating the show organization over the next couple of months. We will need volunteers to help with various tasks prior to the show and a lot of volunteers to help at the show itself. We need to find a member who is willing to be the volunteer coordinator as soon as possible. His
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job will be to find volunteers and coordinate their functions at the show. Please step up and volunteer for this very important position.
Please bring anything you want to auction to the meetings. The auction schedule is on this page.
This month we are starting to have a month-ly bio of a member. Please look at Michael Mooney’s Bio in this issue. Please submit your bio to me and include a few of your favorite knives as a collector or a few knives which are typical of what you sell if you are a purveyer or if you are a maker a few of your award win-ners or knives that you want to show-off. "
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CSCA BiogrAphy CorNer
Mike Mooney began making knives as a hobbyist in 1991. After 25 years in manufac-turing, in 2000 he became a full-time knife maker. Although Mike specializes in fancy bowie knives, he also makes a wide range of knives for kitchen, hunting, fishing, and util-ity applications. His knives are exclusively flat ground, most with a hand-rubbed satin finish and Mike’s preference is to use natural han-dle materials such as ivory, antler, bone, burl woods and pearl.
“I enjoy collaborating with a customer on the design to make them that special knife they’ve always wanted. The appreciation of my work by my many repeat customers is the most rewarding part of being a knife maker.” Mike’s work has also been recognized with awards at several shows around the country, including six for Best Utility/Hunting Knife, five for Best Bowie/Fighting Knife and three for Best Kitchen Cutlery Set.
“My favorite blade steel is CPM S30V, although I will use whatever steel the customer prefers. S30V has convincingly proven its edge holding superiority. I also use damascus pattern-welded steels from Devin Thomas, Brad Vice, Jim Fergusson, and oth-ers. Desert ironwood is probably my favorite handle material”
Mike feels the most important factors in a knife’s performance are blade geometry and heat-treating. “A thin edge is critical to a knife’s ability to slice through material effec-tively and the flat grind minimizes resistance while making the knife easier to sharpen.” All of Mike’s stain-resistant steel blades are heat treated by Paul Bos, the recognized expert in the field.
Mike is active in the knife collecting and making community, having served in the past as vice-president and president of the Arizona
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Knife Collectors Association and is currently vice-president of the Professional Knifemakers Association. Mike is also a member of the Cop-per State Cutlery, Southern California Blades and Oregon Knife Collectors clubs.
Check out Mooney Custom Knives at www.moonblades.com. "
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Regular Auctions:
Large Consignment And Donation Auctions:
May 21June 18
August 20September 17November 19
April 16July 16
October 15
* Regular Auctions: Members and guests can bring their knives to enter in the auction
* Consignment/Donation: The CSCA will auction it’s dona-tions, member & guest knives will be entered, as well as any private collections or consignment lots are welcome.
You can buy your own badge at the next meeting.
Members who join during 2007 or 2008 will be entered as
founding members.
The cost is only $10
your CluB offiCiAlS
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President - Steve Jones 1294 E. Chelsea Dr. Queen Creek, AZ 85240 [email protected] 602-321-0421
Vice President - John Brown 2354 E. Browning Pl. Chandler, AZ 85249 [email protected] 602-697-2004
Treasurer - John Brown (temporary - applicants are welcomed) [email protected]
Secretary/ Newsletter Editor - Gary Fields
[email protected] 602-263-8746
Sgt. at Arms - Howard Mays
Directors: Bob Mattingly Jim Ort Lee Beene
2008 Knife/Gun/Misc. shows
Apr
5-6 12-13 19-20 26-27
Firing Pin - HonDah Murphy - Kingman
Wananmacher – Tulsa
OKCA – Eugene, OR Firing Pin - Cottonwood
NKCA - Ohio
Crossroads - Fairgrounds Beinfield – Vegas
May
3-4 10-11 17-18 24-25 31-1
TerMark - Mesa Mother’s Day TerMark - Fairgrounds NKCA - Springfield NKCA – Louisville
Jun
7-8 14-15 19-20 28-29
Crossroads - Costa Mesas
Father’s Day TerMark - Mesa Crossroads - Reno
Have an event that we need to add to the calendar? Let us know!
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Copper State Cutlery AssociationMeetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Meeting time is around 6:30.
Questions, comments, suggestions and con-cerns are welcomed. Please e-mail us at [email protected] or [email protected] or mail your comments to:Steve Jones 1294 E. Chelsea Dr. Queen Creek, AZ 85240
We reserve the right to publish any/all correspondence.
Fellow CSCA members,
Advertise in the CSCA Newsletter and get directed advertising. Most if not all people receiving the CSCA Newsletter are knife makers, dealers or collectors.
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Steve Jones 1294 E. Chelsea Dr. Queen Creek, AZ 85240
Mail this application with your initiation dues of $35 ($25 annual renewal rate) or Lifetime Membership dues of $350 to the address below, include an additional $10 for your member name badge:
John Brown, CSCA Treasurer2354 E. Browning Pl.Chandler, AZ, 85249
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