05-26-2021, 09:27 PM
(05-24-2021, 12:04 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: A DM Highlander taleI asked LCF about this. She remembers a media convention in SF, not necessarily Highlander-focused, but with Adrian Paul as guest. She believes she and Chet did the bat'leth set, which Chet created. I don't remember if I was there. At one of these affairs I had to man the Lam Kwoon table while someone took a break. While covering, a nice older Asian gentleman looked over Wing Lam's handmade swords. I asked if he was interested in any of them. He proceeded to tell me that years before he had bought a hand-made weapon from Wing Lam, but it had quickly come apart. He wasn't really berating Wing Lam, just explaining why he was reluctant to buy one of these hand-made swords. I really didn't have a response. And to this day I wonder if the weapon he bought was early in Wing Lam's weapons-making learning curve. But that incident stuck with me, a mystery. I don't know if this happened at the SF convention or another place and time.
So I tabled at a Highlander convention in a hotel on Geary in SF. I want to say that was in the early 90s when the TV show was hot. Adrian Paul, who played Duncan MacLeod, was an avid Kung Fu practitioner and the con wanted a Kung Fu demo at his behest. Lam Kwoon was hired and I haggled out a table there.
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I don't remember if the cfs participated but I think they might have, given that we were all more connected into the con community.
