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Blade Show winners

Named at this past weekend's 2012 BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com) at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, the Blade Magazine 2012 Knife-Of-The-Year® Awards went to the finest production knives the world has to offer.

KAI USA and its knife divisions of Kershaw, Zero Tolerance and Shun dominated the awards, taking home four of the honors: Overall, Best Buy, Knife Collaboration and Kitchen Knife. DPx Gear was a first-time winner, and Chris Reeve Knives and William Henry Studio continued their long-term dominance in the respective categories of Manufacturing Quality and Investor/Collector Knife. Other winners included Microtech, Columbia River Knife & Tool, Spyderco and Wicked Edge. Knife Rights and the American Knife & Tool Institute each won Industry Achievement Awards for their diligence in working to have pro-knife legislation passed in a number of states this year.

The winners by category:

Blade Magazine 2012 Overall Knife Of The Year®: ZT 0888 by Zero Tolerance/KAI USA (pictured at top)

Blade Magazine 2012 American-Made Knife Of The Year®: Socom Delta by Microtech

Blade Magazine 2012 Imported Knife Of The Year®: Onion Foresight by Columbia River Knife & Tool

Blade Magazine 2012 Most Innovative American Design®: Autonomy by Spyderco

Blade Magazine 2012 Most Innovative Imported Design®: DPx HEST T3

Blade Magazine 2012 Manufacturing Quality Award: Chris Reeve Knives

Blade Magazine 2012 Best Buy Of The Year®: Cryo by Kershaw/KAI USA

Blade Magazine 2012 Knife Collaboration Of The Year®: ZT 0600, a collaboration between Zero Tolerance/KAI USA and R.J. Martin

Blade Magazine 2012 Investor/Collector Knife Of The Year®: B12 Freedom by William Henry Studio

Blade Magazine 2012 Kitchen Knife Of The Year®: Taiyo by Shun/KAI USA

Blade Magazine 2012 Accessory Of The Year®: Precision Sharpener Pro-Dash II by Wicked Edge

Blade Magazine 2012 Industry Achievement Awards®: Knife Rights and American Knife & Tool Institute

For the complete story on the winners and the knives, see the November BLADE®.

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Comment by Smiling-Knife on June 13, 2012 at 11:45: Ken Erickson won the Best Folder award for his fabulous reproduction of a Victorian Horsemans knife. Many congratulations Ken. That was a well deserved award.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on June 12, 2012 at 20:08: Where is the Traditional Knife winners? I hope they have some, for those that enjoy the old patterns.

Comment by Patrik Ilijev on June 12, 2012 at 19:17: Nice one I did see the results today and I'm looking forward to the new kershaw knives damn those new knives are awesome bargain I can't wait to have the Cryo, Echenlon, knockout, Piston. I love all the Rick Hinderer collaboration kershaw knives they did and also with R.J. Martin. All those knives will be winners and will sold nothing else.

My favorite the kershaw Cryo

http://www.kershawknives.com/productdetails.php?id=761&brand=ke...