Mistwalker
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A lot of people here who know me, know that I happen to like the knives that I have that are made by Andy Roy and his team at Fiddleback Forge a great deal. I carry them and use them often, I take a lot of photos when I am in the field, so pictures of them pop up pretty often.
My fondness of Fiddleback Forge isn't exactly a secret, nearly two years ago now I wrote this post here in the feedback section after a couple of years of using Andy's knives in the field.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1046016-Andy-Roy-of-Fiddleback-Forge
In that two years I have bought and used a few more of his knives in the field since he has gotten into making more models and doing more tapered tangs, and I happen to prefer tapered tang knives when I find ones I like.
This tapered tang 5/32 O-1 Bushcrafter was put through some pretty rough paces in the frozen woods of northern Michigan last winter in the course of doing a few wilderness skills projects.
As did this K.E. Bushie
These two have been through a couple of years of use and still look, feel, and function wonderfully.
There aren't a lot of photos of the smaller Bushboot model in use, but the larger woodsman has seen many hours in the field, and countless hours in my kitchen...it's probably my personal favorite of the Fiddleback line, but is a bit big for edc...which is where the smaller Bushboot really shines.
Recently, I got the chance to go do some photography for Andy's website, and so I spent three days shooting photos in the Fiddlback Forge shop capturing in images the process of the knives being made from start to finish. I also got play around with their light box a little bit, which was a first for me, trying to capture their knives the way I see them.
This is a thread I posted, with Andy's permission, using some of the photos I took during that photo shoot. This is a photo-heavy thread, but I think it does pretty well at showing how Andy and his team go about hand-crafting works of art that actually work.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-Road-To-Fiddleback-Friday-(VERY-Photo-Heavy)
Maybe after looking through all of this a few people will better understand why I have such a fondness for the knives of Fiddleback Forge.
.
My fondness of Fiddleback Forge isn't exactly a secret, nearly two years ago now I wrote this post here in the feedback section after a couple of years of using Andy's knives in the field.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1046016-Andy-Roy-of-Fiddleback-Forge
In that two years I have bought and used a few more of his knives in the field since he has gotten into making more models and doing more tapered tangs, and I happen to prefer tapered tang knives when I find ones I like.
This tapered tang 5/32 O-1 Bushcrafter was put through some pretty rough paces in the frozen woods of northern Michigan last winter in the course of doing a few wilderness skills projects.
As did this K.E. Bushie
These two have been through a couple of years of use and still look, feel, and function wonderfully.
There aren't a lot of photos of the smaller Bushboot model in use, but the larger woodsman has seen many hours in the field, and countless hours in my kitchen...it's probably my personal favorite of the Fiddleback line, but is a bit big for edc...which is where the smaller Bushboot really shines.
Recently, I got the chance to go do some photography for Andy's website, and so I spent three days shooting photos in the Fiddlback Forge shop capturing in images the process of the knives being made from start to finish. I also got play around with their light box a little bit, which was a first for me, trying to capture their knives the way I see them.
This is a thread I posted, with Andy's permission, using some of the photos I took during that photo shoot. This is a photo-heavy thread, but I think it does pretty well at showing how Andy and his team go about hand-crafting works of art that actually work.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-Road-To-Fiddleback-Friday-(VERY-Photo-Heavy)
Maybe after looking through all of this a few people will better understand why I have such a fondness for the knives of Fiddleback Forge.
.
