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That Bushfinger looks awesome Steve! I love the patina you have going there, looks like it's been getting lots of love. I just got my first tuxedo config handle on a Recluse and I am loving it very much too!
 
mistwalker said:
That Bushfinger looks awesome Steve! I love the patina you have going there, looks like it's been getting lots of love. I just got my first tuxedo config handle on a Recluse and I am loving it very much too!
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Hey thank you very much! I've never had O-1 steel before, this stuffs pretty amazing. It really holds a nice sharp edge and that patina, boy what to say about that patina. If you hold it in the right light the colors (all kinds of color) just pop! Have fun with your Recluse looks great!
 
LilBayDeNoc said:
Hey thank you very much! I've never had O-1 steel before, this stuffs pretty amazing. It really holds a nice sharp edge and that patina, boy what to say about that patina. If you hold it in the right light the colors (all kinds of color) just pop! Have fun with your Recluse looks great!
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If I remember right Andy does his heat treat around 59-60. A good hardness for O-1, good edge holding, but still tough. I've put several through a lot of paces and have never had any complaints at all about the heat treat. I love how O-1 gets the multi-color patina going. I usually patina my knives in the kitchen. Sometimes I'll do up a really fine chutney of onions, shallots, garlic, and potatoes, spread it on the blade like paste, pat it down and let it sit for a while then do the other side. Or I'll make a good bit of it and coat one side of the blade in it and press the other side of the blade down onto a blade shaped pile of it to do both sides at the same time. Repeat that a few times then clean up the edge afterward. Does a nice mottled pattern of blues, purples, grays, and black.

Thanks, already having lots of fun with the Recluse :)
 
Got to enjoy my first Fiddleback Monday (well, got it Saturday) with a beaut :D!!!!

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Sweet! I got to see that wood before he mailed it... really first class! And Andy never misses on pulling the whole piece together, the liners, the clean grind, the subtle geometry in the palm swell (Much harder to do than it looks!) the texture on the blade. That is quality......
 
TPVT said:
real nice configuration there. very nice indeed. congrats.
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Thanks TPVT, was lurking for couple of months and finally decided to pull the trigger, which still ended up being an impulse buy despite weeks of planning to get a Duke as my first.

Paul Brach said:
Sweet! I got to see that wood before he mailed it... really first class! And Andy never misses on pulling the whole piece together, the liners, the clean grind, the subtle geometry in the palm swell (Much harder to do than it looks!) the texture on the blade. That is quality......
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Thanks Paul, yeah, I love how streamlined the overall design is, yet the elements are very complex on their own.
 
mistwalker said:
Interesting. The reason I am drawn to the twelve over the fourteen is that the twelve is a bit thicker than the others. I've never had the chance to play with a quality thinner mactete, but a lot of people rave about Andy's longer machetes and the even thinner ESEE machete, so maybe next spring I need to give one of the longer Fiddleback machetes a chance. Gonna be doing a lot of clearing and burning this winter, and then a lot of maintenance next spring and summer.
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i put it head to head against the esee lite machete in clearing thorn bushes and other light vegetation and the extra thickness of the fiddleback was very tiring...at this length and the target use, it's all about the tip speed from my experience.

for a short machete like the 12" though, i like how thick it is.
 
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JV3 said:
i put it head to head against the esee lite machete in clearing thorn bushes and other light vegetation and the extra thickness of the fiddleback was very tiring...at this length and the target use, it's all about the tip speed from my experience.

for a short machete like the 12" though, i like how thick it is.
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I see your point, I just find the ESEE too flimsy and flexible for my tastes. Maybe the Fiddleback 18 is the one for me :)
 
I still use a $8 dollar cold steel panga. They are durable. I bought quite a few back in the day, I think they cost around 15 now.
 
SubaruSTi said:
I still use a $8 dollar cold steel panga. They are durable. I bought quite a few back in the day, I think they cost around 15 now.
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Yeah, I have a couple of cheap ones, and a couple not so cheap. I use the cheap ones maintaining the yard and the not so cheap ones in the field :)
 
Interesting fellow that hitched a ride on a parachute today.

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Yeah those guys are cool. I can't remember the name off hand but they are in a book I have. Cattail caterpillar? I'll look it up and get back.
 
Tribial said:
Yeah those guys are cool. I can't remember the name off hand but they are in a book I have. Cattail caterpillar? I'll look it up and get back.
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From the second picture I thought it was a very tiny platypus, which didn't really make sense on a parachute...
 
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