Blade Show report

Here's a photo gallery of all the gear I got to see on the first day of Blade Show. New knives from Spartan Blades, Daniel Winkler, and a non-novelty 1911 themed blade from Ultimate Equipment. I also got to see new axe designs from RMJ, Strider and Daniel Winkler. In the "other" gear, Jones Tactical gave me a look at their updated Cobra Gunner's Belt and Exotac had a new, brightly colored bombproof match case. Lastly, I got to play with 4Sevens XM18, a battery powered array of 18 LEDs that puts out 18,000 lumens.

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