Bushcraft Knife?

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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Hey Andy, I have been checking out your knives for a couple of years now, and watching them develop. You really do make some beautiful knives bro! Getting to check them out in person at blade was a real pleasure. How do you feel about making a dedicated bush-craft knife? With my current work I am being bombarded by many things tactical and pretty much all of my thinking is having to come from a tactical perspective at the moment. I am hoping that later on...maybe this Autumn...that I can hit the woods in a different frame of mind for a while...with more of a bush-craft frame of mind. I do love your wooden handles but for my purposes I think some sort of micarta in an earth tone would be better. What do you say, you interested?
 
I'm going to send you the prototype for the new Bushfinger to test out and see if you can craft some bush with it. The knife is an evolution of the guardless Ladyfinger. I've got the prototype ground and heat treated. I'm going to leave the tang exposed at the rear.

How are your hands/grip preference? Fat? I remember you being a big SOB at the show.
 
Fiddleback said:
I'm going to send you the prototype for the new Bushfinger to test out and see if you can craft some bush with it. The knife is an evolution of the guardless Ladyfinger. I've got the prototype ground and heat treated. I'm going to leave the tang exposed at the rear.

How are your hands/grip preference? Fat? I remember you being a big SOB at the show.
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Sounds interesting, sounds like just what I'm looking for. I really like the idea of the exposed tang a lot.

Well...my hands are fat...and so are my fingers....but they're not all that long. About 2 3/4 to 3 inches in circumference (but doesn't need to be circular) on the first finger by about 4 1/2 inches in length works out good for me.
 
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This knife has scales glued on now. It could be good lookin. Maybe.
 
Alrighty. This is the Bushfinger. Its an evolution of the Ladyfinger, guardless, and without the sway in the spine. The knife measures 8.5" long and has a 4" drop point blade. This one is spalted 01 steel with a convex sabergrind. The handle is black linen micarta and natural canvas micarta. The pins are carbon fiber and natural linen micarta, and the bullseye liner is black carbon fiber. The bolsters overlap the scales at 18 degrees. On this one, by request of Mistwalker, I left some of the tang exposed at the rear for rough work.

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WOW, That is stunning! Stellar job Andy :thumbup:


Yellow Lab said:
Nice job Andy ....as always! :)

Mist - now put her to work up in them Tennessee woods! :D
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Absolutely :) , I'm really looking forward to it. I'll give me, the knife, and the new camera a good workout.

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I keep coming back here and looking at this thing. The more I look at it the more it takes the sting out of the price :) ...not that I think your prices are too high or anything...hell you know what I mean... times are just tough right now that's all. But it's sure going to be nice hitting the woods for a while shedding the tactical train of thought, it'll be worth it :thumbup:
 
Don't trust the tip, Misty.... I hear they break without warning.... as sure as a bear is quiet!


Ha... just messing with Andy. That blade has a great look to it.
 
Man, don't I know it about times being hard. I'm praying for better times when folks don't have to 'fit' a Fiddleback into their budget. I'm keeping my prices at the low end of the custom scale to help out. Hopefully, the little details and extras in my work, coupled with the well designed tool thing make the knives a good value for everyone that gets one!
 
Fiddleback said:
Man, don't I know it about times being hard. I'm praying for better times when folks don't have to 'fit' a Fiddleback into their budget. I'm keeping my prices at the low end of the custom scale to help out. Hopefully, the little details and extras in my work, coupled with the well designed tool thing make the knives a good value for everyone that gets one!
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Your attention to detail and your styling are fantastic Andy, definitely sets your knives apart from the pack.

I was hoping you understood where I was coming from with that, and I think we are all praying for those times bro.
 
Boy howdy, do I ever understand. No offense taken. These times are the hardest even my dad has lived through.
 
Fiddleback said:
Boy howdy, do I ever understand. No offense taken. These times are the hardest even my dad has lived through.
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Yep...most of my family here has spent so much time working the last several years that none of us had gardens...this year we all pitched in on a community garden. All of my neighbors that hadn't done it in years either also did this year. Things have been pretty rough here. At least with both of us working we are making it ok...but a lot of people are having a really hard time. Luckily our land/home and vehicles are paid for...if not we'd have it pretty rough too.
 
I've got 5 kids under 8 years old, and another due this Sunday, so I'm praying that this country will swing back REAL HARD in the other direction and take us back to better times in several ways......but next year (and probably the next 10 years) is going to make this one look like a walk in the park. This economic and social experiment has been tried before in many other countries, and most of them haven't recovered yet. We are just getting started on it. If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged then do so, it'll make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Rand wasn't a Christian and didn't factor in the difference that makes individually, so the whole thing is pretty bleak - but the economic and social parallels are uncanny. This is far from over. Without the knowledge that my family is in the righteous right hand of God and that our well-being relies on Him, I'd be freaking out. As it is, I'm taking steps to get as self-sufficient (as in not relying on other people or human institutions) as possible, do some maintenance/repairs on vehicles and machinery that I've been putting off, lay in a few items that are no-brainers, go ahead and spend a little cash on needful things before inflation makes them unaffordable, and pay off what little we still owe on our house construction project. I don't want to be just another guy in a line somewhere when the grocery store/bank/gas station doesn't open like it did the day before. You guys who are campers/bushcrafters are going to be a step ahead of most if those days come, with your problem-solving mindset. There are going to be lot of sheeple, though, who compound the problems and will need help. I'd like to be able to keep my family on an even keel, and then be of some help to those who didn't get the memo.

Over and above all that, though, is this:

Jeremiah 17:7-8 (New International Version)

7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.

8 He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit."

Whew, sorry about the sermon, folks! :)
I'll get down (creak) off my soap box now!

Anyway, I'm regarding Fiddleback Forge knives as an inflation-proof investment! If times get really bad, Andy's knives will be worth their weight in gold....or venison, whatever becomes the favored currency! ;)
 
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