What are you waiting for? Check out the new pricing right now and stock up on gifts, camping knives, hunting knives and kitchen knives to keep your cutting jobs easy, safe, and enjoyable.

The world’s biggest knife show! More than 700 exhibitors and thousands of knife collectors from around the world will come to the BLADE Show for a three-day frenzy of buying, selling and learning more about knives. See more than 108,000 square feet of knife exhibits!

National groups, including the American Bladesmith Society and Knifemaker Guild, choose the BLADE Show as their meeting place. Local groups will also be on hand.

Events such as BLADE Magazine’s 2010 Knives of the Year® and Custom Knife Awards celebrate the year’s best designs and honor one influential industry member with induction into the BLADE Hall of Fame.

The BLADE Show is THE place to see the latest in the world of knives all under one roof. Whether you are already a knife enthusiast or just getting started, a visit to the BLADE Show should be part of your plans.

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The SHOT Show attracts buyers from all 50 states and more than 75 countries. The SHOT Show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and is produced and managed by Reed Exhibitions.

Download your copy of the 2010 SHOT Show Tracker: Your pre-show guide to everything happening at the show. Get information on seminars, exhibitors, show hours, show policies and much more.

2010 Show Hours

• January 19 – 8:30am-5:30pm
• January 20 – 8:30am-5:30pm
• January 21 – 8:30am-5:30pm
• January 22 – 8:30am-4:00pm

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In this video, Murray shares with us the three most common reasons why a knife blade chips — overheating, improper quenching and tempering, and overtasking.

In this sequel to “Why Knife Blades Chip,” and one of his most practical demonstrations of knife sharpening, Murray Carter shows us just how easy it is to repair this very knife which was badly chipped, first by using a 1000-grit water stone, and then a final stropping on a 6000-grit stone (for a nice shave!), all in under 10 minutes.

Here’s a few whitestones we recommend:

Japanese Benchstone Shiageto Fine 1500 Grit

Japanese Benchstone Nakato Medium 1000 Grit

Japanese Benchstone Arato 600 Grit

eBladeStore.com is going one step further with Cyber Week! Offering doorbuster sales, deals and bargains that will make your head spin all week long! See all Cyber Week deals here.

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It just keeps getting bigger and better every year!

We receive many requests for our catalog and while it is not free, please understand that this is not like other retailers monthly or seasonal catalogs that you receive in the mail by request. The eBladeStore.com catalog is a 5 lb “all inclusive” catalog full of everything that is currently in production on the market today by all the top manufacturers in the industry.

Here’s a list of just some of the items featured in our catalog that are NOT listed on our web site: binoculars & scopes, head wraps, slingshots, replica guns and rifles, two-way radios, flasks, navigation aids, silver dollars, watches and Zippo lighters. And of course the largest selection of quality knives you’ve ever seen…

From knives and accessories to many gift items, you’ll be amazed at all the special deals you’ll find! As we’ve always said it’s “The Only Knife Catalog You’ll Ever Need!”.

The heart of Congress.org is an award-winning software program that makes it easy for citizens to write their elected officials. Their software assures that your letter will be delivered directly to the decision-makers whose opinions you hope to influence.

There’s no better time to get involved. Write to your Federal or State elected officials with one click. Start now by going to their homepage and type your zip code in the “Get Involved” box.

However, knife owners should realize that they are still bound by the knife laws of their state. And if you travel to another state, you are bound by their state laws.

The significance of the legislative victory that was led by AKTI and supported by several other organizations cannot be overstated. If U.S. Customs had succeeded in broadly redefining a switchblade, as they proposed in late May 2009, domestic manufacturers and all owners of folding knives would have been in jeopardy. That’s because an import restriction becomes an issue for interstate commerce. And where local law enforcement might be uncertain about how to correctly apply their state law, they often turn to U.S. Customs to provide guidance.

October 20, 2009

You can keep and use your folding knives permitted in your state! With today’s vote in the U.S. Senate (and the President’s expected signature of H.R. 2892), the American Knife & Tool Institute has accomplished the seemingly impossible. Thanks to the help of many AKTI members, supporters, lawmakers and supporting organizations, we have turned the proposed U. S. Custom’s proposed re-definition of switchblades into an effective and sweeping clarification of the Federal Switchblade Act of 1958.

As of today (October 20, 2009), the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, with Senate Amendment 1447 language still intact, has passed both the Senate and the House. This bi-partisan amendment was co-sponsored by 20 U.S. Senators, led by John Cornyn of Texas, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Orrin Hatch of Utah.

The Senate amendment essentially adopted the switchblade exception language which AKTI sponsored in Texas and that was signed by Texas Governor Perry on June 18, 2009. U.S. Customs, thanks to an outpouring of grassroots support and the intervention of more than 20 U.S. Senators concerned about the potential financial devastation to the entire sporting knife industry, became active supporters of the amendment.

AKTI thanks the following co-sponsors for the bi-partisan statesmanship that clearly saved all folding knives which we estimate are 80 percent of current sales in the nearly $1 billion sporting knife industry.

John Cornyn (R-TX)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
John Barrasso (R-WY)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Jim Risch (R-ID)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jon Tester (D-MT)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)

Prior to the Senate adopting the amendment, U.S. Customs also participated in negotiations on language, which they then supported. AKTI thanks both the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs for their ultimate support.

House support has been strong and broad-based during this effort, going back to more than 80 members of the bi-partisan Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus sending a letter for the industry position to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

Representative Robert Latta (R-OH) and Walt Minnick (D-ID) were staunch, active supporters of the sporting knife industry throughout the entire process in the Senate and the House.

Finally, as H.R. 2892 came back to the House for work in conference, AKTI wants to recognize the support given by various House committee chairs and their staffers.

David Obey (D-WI) – Chair House Appropriations
David Price (D-NC) – Chair House Appropriations (Homeland Security Subcommittee)
Henry Waxman (D-CA) – Chair House Energy and Commerce Committee
Bobby Rush (D-IL) – Chair House Energy and Commerce Committee (Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee)
Charles Rangel (D-NY) – Chair House Ways & Means Committee
Sander Levin (D-MI) – Chair House Ways & Means Committee (Trade Subcommittee)

As provided in Amendment 1447, U.S. Customs agreed to add a fifth clause to section 1244 of the Federal Switchblade Act that exempts “a knife that contains a spring, detent, or other mechanism designed to create a bias toward closure of the blade and that requires exertion applied to the blade by hand, wrist or arm to overcome the bias toward closure to assist in opening the knife.”

AKTI expects that the President will sign this bill.

Thank you to all those lawmakers, AKTI members, AKTI Grassroots Supporters, the NRA, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, and Knife Rights for their support of a campaign that began with an AKTI call to action at the Blade Show on May 29.

Goldie Russell
AKTI President
President, A.G. Russell Knives

Jan Billeb
AKTI Executive Director