Oh yeah Cold Steel is there, with Lynn Thompson in his Darth Vader clothes tearing up the parking lot with sweaty demonstrations!Yeah, it's a good time to connect with old friends and to laugh at what some people pay for knives. And handle material. Last year some grown man was on the floor trying to wrestle a Busse raffle ticket away from my 9 year old.
It's great fun to watch each knife company's unique culture. Busse amuses me the most. Emerson guys have the tightest t-shirts. Randall Made Knives has the oldest average age at probably 60. Cold Steel is always a circus/pirate/broadway show/science fiction movie (although I don't think they come to blade). ESEE has the guys that will just have come back from Tibet or the Amazon or Somalia with their knives.
They're all different. Lots of fun. But I really just go to hang out with Yeager