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PLAZA CUTLERY 2011 IN-STORE SHOW
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Update: 3-19-13
"California Custom Knife Show" sponsored by Plaza Cutlery
Saturday October 12TH and Sunday October 13TH, 2013 Hours 10am to 4pm both days
Embassy Suites of Garden Grove\Anaheim South SHOW IS IN THE BALLROOM 11767 Harbor Boulevard Garden Grove, Ca. 92840 email dan@plazacutlery.com for any questions!
Admission is at the door, and is $15 per-person or $25 for a two day pass. Cash only, no credit cards or checks. Day parking is FREE !!!! The "California Custom Knife Show" sponsored by Plaza Cutlery. This was the first major show on the west coast, and has returned to the greater Anaheim\Disneyland area where our show was originally located making it more convenient for attendees from Orange County, as well as Los Angles County. The format will be the same as the first show in 1981. We will feature the best in custom knives, a few hand picked small production companies, as well as suppliers, and engravers. This has always been a fun show with a nice crowd! The Embassy Suites is located in the row of hotels that run down Harbor Boulevard from Disneyland to just past the Anaheim Convention center. The show starting on Saturday morning makes it very easy to attend, and you can be there when the show opens as there should not be much traffic on the freeways Saturday morning. So if you are in San Diego to Santa Barbra you can drive down in the morning, and return home in the evening very easily. But spending $1?? for a room with breakfast included, why not spend the night and enjoy the weekend in this resort area? One difference in this show compared to others, is that each knife maker will be asked to sign a pledge that they will not sell any knives till the show opens to the public and then wait 10 minutes so everyone has a chance to get to the knife maker they want to see and possibly buy from. Some knife makers such as John Young, Les George, Ernie Emerson, and Rick Hinderer will do drawings a later after opening. Each maker at 10:10 will then sell his knives and if more then one person wants the same knife they will do a drawing for that knife using a deck of cards. Each maker will have a deck of "Plaza Cutlery" playing cards which are available for $10. Hopefully each person gets what they want, if you are there when the show opens Saturday morning. We will also post the names of the makers below who make the pledge, and the one's we know will need to do a drawing below next to their names. (Will be updated in July) Dealers will also be asked to sign a pledge not to try, and buy before the show opens. This way the dealers will not buy everything up, me included! :) We want you at the show and to be able to get a knife! This will not included knife makers who are delivering your knife at the show so they do not have to ship it. The show will be held in the ball room, and you can enter from the ball room side of the front of the hotel, or from the back side. We will have signs posted, and it is a smaller hotel so very easy to get around. Parking for both exhibitors, and attendees is free during the day!! If you are there over night it is $12.. There is no gate so you can park any where around the hotel, and there is a lot of parking in the back that hopefully the exhibitors will use so guest can park out front. In addition the "Embassy Suites" offers a full breakfast to the hotel guest, and they are extending it to the attendees for $10 per person. This included an omelet station and all the usual breakfast buffet options. I will post more as it gets closer. Tables are available to knife makers, scrimshanders, engravers, Mid-tech manufacturers, dealers (hand made knives), and collectors when the waiting list is filled. No factory knives, or sharing of tables. The show will be a little bigger this year as we will use the full ballroom. So please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested. I will add a couple more dealers, but will be first come, first served as long as you are offering something new to the show. If interested in a table please email me at dan@plazacutlery.com . At this time we do have a waiting list. 3/14/13
Directions Going North on interest 5: Take interstate 5 north. Exit Harbor boulevard and turn left on to Harbor. Drive about a mile and half past Disneyland, Anaheim Convention Center. The hotel sets back and is just before Chapman avenue. There is an Italian restaurant "Baca Di Beppo" in front of it, but there is a sign that direct you into the Embassy Suites. Easy to see from there. Going South on interest 5: Take interstate 5 south. Exit Harbor boulevard and turn right on to Harbor. Drive about a mile and half past Disneyland, Anaheim Convention Center. The hotel sets back and is just before Chapman avenue. There is an Italian restaurant "Baca Di Beppo" in front of it, but there is a sign that direct you into the Embassy Suites. Easy to see from there.
To win the above Darrel Ralph Knife! Darrel Ralph has donated one of his "Gun Hammers" for this years show. This knife is assisted opening, 3D machined titanium with deep blue anodizing and has a "killer comb" inlay! The blade is S90v so is super special! This will be the knife featured in our show ads, and flyers! You can win it on Sunday of the show. If you have attend our show in the past, and receive the post card in the mail just bring it to the show, and turn it into the front desk with your show admission. We will have a special door prize drawing on Sunday just before the Hinderer lottery. If you have not received a post card for the last show or just attended last year you will be added for the 2012 show. If you have not attended, or did not fill out the slip, please send your name, and address to dan@plazacutlery.com and we will add you to the list. All you need to do is attend the show this year, and bring the post card with you , and deposit it the marked drawing box. If you can't make the show, sorry you will miss out! We will also have regular door prize drawings for new guest to be eligible for, and also past attendees in a separate drawing. POST CARDS WILL GO OUT MID SEPTEMBER
Additional door prizes will be posted! Thank you!
Dan Delavan ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Room Reservations If you wish to stay at the Embassy Suites a suite with a King is $124 plus tax's or a double bedded suite is $144 plus tax's. Also all rooms have an additional sofa bed, table and television in the front part of the suite separated by the bath room. Each room that has 3 or more guest has an addition charge of $20.00. Check with the hotel for any questions. Breakfast for all guest in the room is also included as well as the "Managers reception form 5PM to 7PM which includes beer and wine. For Hotel reservations at the Embassy Suites. 714-539-3300 ask for reservations. CODE #"PLA"
Please note the rooms with the Large King sell out early! __________________________________________________________________________
Thank you! Dan Delavan and crew! 2013 Exhibitors A few tables are available, email to inquire! Will add the Pledged in September as we will have all the paper work at that time. I am sure most all of the makers will!
These are the 2013 exhibitors! (now updated!) Don Andrade Paid Bill Ankrom Paid Max Berger Paid Jason Brous Thad Buchanan Paid Zach Buchanan Paid Joel Chamblin Paid Bill Coffey Dawson Knives Paid Dave Ellis, MS Ernie Emerson Drawing Lottery 1PM Saturday Paid Brian Forrest Paid Dennis Friedly Paid Stan Fujisaka Paid Les George Koji Hara Paid Phil Hartsfield jr Bill Herndon Paid Rick Hinderer Pledged Lottery 2PM Saturday & 1PM Sunday Holder, Dalton Steve Hostetler Roy Humenick Mitch Jenkins Carson Jorgensen Steven Koster Randy Lee Paid Kirby Lambert (Canada) Paid Matthew Lerch Paid Scot Matsuoka Paid Kansei Matsuno (Japan) Mike McClure Ken McFall Paid Mike Mooney Jeff Morgan Paid Jeffery Mutz Chad Nell Mel Nishiuchi Paid Bruce Oakly Hiroaki Ohta (Japan) Paid W. D. Pease Paid Michael Quesenberry Darrel Ralph Paid Jeremy Robertson Bill Ruple Eugene Shadley David Sharp Robert Scheppmann Jim Sornberger Paid Chris Stanko Masao Takahashi (Japan) Shosui Takeda (Japan) Paid Kazutoshi Tanabe (Silver Spooon) Leon Thompson Paid Brian Tighe Paid Henry Torres Paid Mike Tyre Paid Michael Ulrich Al Warren Melvin Watanabe Paid Wayne Watanabe Paid Rodney Watts Paid Richard Wheeler Tim Withers Daniel Winkler John Young Lottery 12 noon Saturday Pledged Paid Tim Zowada
Jewelry Steel Flame
Photography Hiro Photography
Semi production knives invited and attending: Chris Reeve Knives Pro-Tech (note auto sales to law enforcement and Military only) Paid HTM Knives Red Blade Knives Strider Knives William Henry Knives
Suppliers (limited to invited) Abrasives Inc./ HOG Adam Unlimited (Sting Ray) Glendo Engraving Equipment Engraving demonstrations Paid Knife and gun Finishing Supply's 2 tables Paid Maxpedition Gear Pearl Inc. "Steve Dinh" Still Water Woods Gary Bolduc Charles Turnage (Mammoth Ivory, Brain Coral) TruGrit 2 tables Paid
Dealers signed up Duane Weikum\EDC Knives Jon Ukman\EbossHoss Paid Rick Monsour Paid Dan Delavan\Plaza Cutlery Paid Jack Alvarez Dave Nittinger 2 tables Paid Louis Chow Paid Knifeology, Mark Strauss Paid Jeff Stover\Edge Dealer Paid Monkey Depot\Brady Miller
Display Tom and Gwen Guinn
A few exhibitors can only attend every other year or just can not make this year:
Ryuichi Kawamura Daniel Winkler
Link to California Custom Knife Show 2011
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