Title Sponsor –  Smoky Mountain Knife Works offers all knife brands for every function imaginable! Check out SMKW for all your knife needs and don’t forget to visit their top-notch Retail Showroom visited by over 1 million customers annually. LEARN MORE!  

  BLADE University Sponsor: Work Sharp is a manufacturing tool company that is dedicated to creating quality tools with quality components and backing them with the best one-on-one customer support you’ll ever get. They specialize in “Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling.” LEARN MORE!  

Wi-Fi Sponsor, WE Knife is one of the largest professional manufacturer and exporter of HIGH QUALITY knives and tools in China. WE is capable of manufacturing high quality knives with professional & advanced production equipments that including CNC machines,CNC grinding machines,stamping machines,EDM machines,laser engraving machines,anodized Titanium coating equipments. LEARN MORE!

  Official Housing Sponsor, Shop knives from brands like Spyderco, Chris Reeve Knives, ESEE, Emerson, Zero Tolerance, Case, and many, many more! We offer knives to cover anything and everything imaginable from big choppers to hack your way through a rainforest, to tiny slipjoints that disappear in a pocket for a day at the office.…

  Floor Plan Sponsor,  Founded by Clay Allison in 2007, Wicked Edge was inspired by a desire to achieve a perfect, lasting knife edge using a system that allowed that edge to be repeated. Clay ran a successful elk outfitting business for 15 years in southern Colorado. His frustration in the field, and having to…

    Official Demo Sponsor, Hogue, Inc., has been the home to a proud family tradition of American quality and innovation since 1968. Every Hogue product – from handgun grips to long gun stocks to AR components to specialty knives to gear and accessories – is built in the spirit of fine craftsmanship, attention to…

    Official Grinding Sponsor, Since 1951 Burr King grinders, polishers, and mass finishing systems have been used by the world’s leading companies. Our products use innovative designs of uncompromising quality, they are industrial grade, intended for use on metals, woods, composites, plastics, rubber, stone, fiberglass and other materials. Burr King products are simple-to-use, no…

  BLADE Show T-Shirt Sponsor, Southern Grind, Zac Brown’s Georgia-based knife company, offers unrivaled knife lines and unique metal works made by American hands using extremely high quality materials and an unparalleled attention to detail. Not a single product that leaves our warehouse until it meets the high standards set forth by the man in…

Blade HQ is a knife store of epic proportions. We have over 13,000 knives on-site ready to ship. The “HQ” in Blade HQ is for “Headquarters,” and we take this “HQ” stuff seriously. We love knives and we’re ultra-passionate about selling blades to fellow knife addicts. We specialize in military and law enforcement knives, folding…