Blade West!

[WhichDawg]

The show was fun, and omg  what amazing stuff.
I have some nice pictures, and I'll get them up some time tonight.

Leatherman had a booth there and they were a very cool lot, and gave me some nice info for tours at
the Leatherman Factory (even gave me a discount coupon for it) and said to call them for more
deals.

for now how about this picture for starters:

in the parking lot;

 the; "Leatherman-Mobile!

[Leatherman123]

The Baja is the ugliest truck on the road!  I hate it SO much! But, a very cool design! Thanks for the pic too! 

[J-sews]

Oh you lucky Dawg you!! Blade West eh? That must have been great!


So hurry up with the pics man!!!

[jzmtl]

Eww, Subaru baja, and they made a camper for it. 

[J-sews]

Hey, they're from Oregon. No way they were gonna put that paint job on a Hummer!

[WhichDawg]

okay. I asked what was new, they showed me their flashlight line-up, I was impressed.

AAA, AA, and CR134 lights. rugged, high and low on the AAA and AA and high-med-low on the CR123
(don't ask me the lumens!)

[WhichDawg]

Of course I wanted to see the real stars, the Multitools.
nothing new but I wanted to play with several models I haven't had
a chance to play with, like the Crunch and the Vista and Hybrid, they were sweet!



that Crunch is wild, took me a sec to figure it out!
I want one!

[WhichDawg]

and they "Made" me take some pics of their knife line
being a knife nut I don't associate LM with blades but I was
pleasantly surprised at their feel and detail, nothing to sneeze at





Again some very nice guys who were very polite and fun, thanks Leatherman
for the show and display, I enjoyed it

[jzmtl]

okay. I asked what was new, they showed me their flashlight line-up, I was impressed.

AAA, AA, and CR134 lights. rugged, high and low on the AAA and AA and high-med-low on the CR123
(don't ask me the lumens!)

So they start in high? Not good. How does it switch mode, is it half press like fenix or do you have to click through all three to turn it off, or soemthing else?

I like their new knife thou, looks better than the older versions.

[WhichDawg]

sorry, it was low to high. but!~ it was a clickie and you can switch modes by either twisty or (and this was sweet)
"tapping" the clickie! full press it went on-off, a light tap and the mode switched low to high! it was pretty nice.

so the idea was, easy one hand operation, which it was.

[jzmtl]

So it's basically like fenix then, how does the twistie factor into this? Work like fenix too?

[WhichDawg]

when I twisted the head, the mode changed (low-high and back when I tightened it),
not the preferred method (power interruption?) but it worked.

The way it is designed to switch is a light tap/touch on the clickie, which worked very easy.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Great pictures mate

Keep em coming 

[J-sews]

Great pictures mate

Keep em coming 

Yeah, don't stop now!

[WhichDawg]

well it was "Blade!" and I am a big Busse (clan) fan







I picked this up for a friend:
the Swamp Rat Chopweiler;

big n heavy!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

So how hot is your credit card Dan

[Dunc]

Great pics  , I would love to go somewhere like that .

Dunc

[Benner]

Great pics  , I would love to go somewhere like that .

Dunc

Exactly what I was thinking.  It would be great to see all those sharps in one place.

[Dunc]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

[Benner]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

We'll hold you to that. 

[Dunc]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

We'll hold you to that. 

I really would . Need to be more then 3 mumbers though 

Dunc

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

Your on, but I'd probably develope a headache in time for the LM tour

[Dunc]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

Your on, but I'd probably develope a headache in time for the LM tour

But I bet it clears up when we fly back via Switzerland  How cool would that be ?


Dunc

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Just imagine if I won the lotto  I would fly all the Brit members over to the states and and we could go to Blade show and a LM factory tour  , meet our leader and members .

Oh well we can dream , would be great fun

Dunc

Your on, but I'd probably develope a headache in time for the LM tour

But I bet it clears up when we fly back via Switzerland  How cool would that be ?


Dunc

I'm sure it's just the clean mountain air that'll do it

[WhichDawg]

omg another British invasion!

I was pretty good Mike, I just got for a friend but for myself.....
their was a Harbor Freight on the way....

[Neil]

Thanks for all the pics  I think 

I'll have to check out the new lights.  I have a few nice torches but certainly not many and I feel the need

Neil

[WhichDawg]

np buds, it was fun.

Oh I got to meet Justin Gingrich from Ranger Knives, what a great guy
and he gave me this;



a Ranger Challenge Coin!

[Anthony]

Those are cool!  I thought they were pins..

any idea what "Sua Sponte" means?

[jzmtl]

Those are cool!  I thought they were pins..

any idea what "Sua Sponte" means?

*cough* google first result *cough*

[WhichDawg]

lol yeah something about "to act of ones own accord"
sounds army