A special knife with a "back story". One of the last knife shows we attended was the 2014 Dale Warther Memorial Knife Show, formerly known as the Western Reserve Knife Collector's Club Show; which had been held at the County Fairgrounds in Dover, Ohio.
At this show (as all of them) there is a banquet for all the show participants; and each "plate" is given a raffle ticket; where my wife and I sat down there were two tickets on my plate. I gave one of them back; as luck would have it the first ticket pulled (for the grand prize) was the one I gave back! They pulled another ticket - shazaam - it was the ticket I kept!
The Grand Prize, was a Damascus Thumb Knife made by Dan McMullen. It has an engraved plate, commemorating Dale Warther who had been a major player in putting on the show every year. Sadly Dale passed away unexpectedly and too young.
After holding on to this knife for the last 5 years I decided that it was time to give it back to the Club, to be given away at the banquet; with the proviso that every year it would be brought back to the awards dinner and given away as the grand prize. Tomorrow night it will be given away at the dinner; we had planned to drive to Ohio from Texas for the show but I had surgery two weeks ago and the Dr. said no travel...darn it.
So here's the Dan McMullen damascus commemorative knife. It has a stabilized sycamore wood base but I didn't keep any of those photographs.
