Behind the Scenes @ Fiddleback Forge 3/15/2016-??

VANCE

VANCE

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Some of ya’ll saw the blurry pic of Andy and Lily on Friday that showed up in the Knives ‘16 album.
Here is the backstory…
Lily drew out a knife a little while ago and Andy tweaked it abit and we made one or two of them. Lily always said she wanted one in pink & purple. Although we don’t accept custom orders she was able to get approval from the boss (Leah).
Friday morning Lily showed up w/ Andy here at the shop and it just so happens we completed her knife last week. The blurry pic was Andy showing her the knife for the first time.

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Happy girl!
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Proud daddy!
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Oscar is having trouble adjusting to Day Light Savings
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Allen is confused by it too
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Gluing up scales
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Just playing around w/ a lens that never gets used.
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Cody had a whole cart full of micarta to flatten
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Profiled out and ready to Dykem them again. Then we will scribe the center lines for the edge & taper and also scribe them for the pin holes & Bullseye
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David has about half of them drilled as of this afternoon
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Some of Allen’s going-ons
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I like the “woodish migarta” on the bottom one
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Pocket Puukko
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More to follow as time permits…..
 
Nice job Phillip thanks. I'm really digging on the Pocket Puukko!! Is that a 2 or 3 finger Karda Chuck
 
:thumbup: Congrats Lily, great looking knife! She looks just like her dad, don't she! :)
 
If the bosses daughter can't get a special custom order something isn't right with the world :-) Nice sneak peek.
 
Cool stuff and thank you. Looking forward to seeing how those scorpions and bulldog bowies get done up.
 
Great pics, Phillip. Cool of you all to keep up with these behind the scenes threads.
 
Yep, great pics Phillip! I always love checking out these behind the scenes threads.
 
Nice one Phillip. Lily's knife looks great as does that smile. Last year I would have said I wish I could get a pink and purple knife for Alayna, but since she informed me recently that her favorite color is blue now, she just made finding her a Fiddleback infinitely more easy to do :D

VANCE said:
That is the old shool Karda
It's more of a 2 finger knife
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One of the main things I noticed because I still want a stainless one for a neck knife!
 
Three things that caught my eye: the old-school Karda, the stack of Kephart blanks, and the pocket puuko. Thumbs up to all.

Oh yeah, and I LOVE seeing all the micarta in the pipeline.
 
trestle said:
Three things that caught my eye: the old-school Karda, the stack of Kephart blanks, and the pocket puuko. Thumbs up to all.

Oh yeah, and I LOVE seeing all the micarta in the pipeline.
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Micarta is also some of my favorite
 
Micarta went on a major sales slump last year. But this year, with this economy, I'm trying to do more micarta so the knives don't cost as much. It would be bad for us to lower prices, but we can respond to the market this way. And, micarta happens to be the best suited handle material I know of. I find it beautiful also, but I think its an acquired taste. I wanted to do our kitchen counters with it. But that wasn't my call, so we got something else.
 
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