Fiddlebacks and Food

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cbach8tw said:
What model is that? Almost like a Hiking Buddy with a Zulu blade. Cool looking.
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It's a Bushraptor, an idea I suggested to Andy back in 2012. The original idea was inspired by using a Hiking Buddy to prune some limbs. It's essentially a Hiking Buddy with a Wharncliffe blade. There is one on the website now.
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Bushraptor - Crosscut Black Canvas - AEB-L

From camping to everyday carry, the Fiddleback Forge Bushraptor can do it all. It's Wharncliffe style blade on the Hiking-Buddy-like frame makes it a great companion in the woods and possibly even better for your daily needs for everyday carry.
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I've had some really cool Fiddlebacks over the years. The original Bushfinger, a couple of one-offs, and a couple of curly cues to name a few, but if there is one I'd trade body parts to get back it would be this Bloodwood Bushboot. The one I carried the last 4 months of my Dad's life in 2012, as we reconciled a crazy past and laughed out loud together for the first time since I was 13. The one I cut up some of his last meals with.
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By the beginning of 2020, when so many businesses here were closed, including my dental surgeon, I was beginning to think I'd never get all the surgeries done that life on the streets as a kid had made necessary, and that I would never be able to eat things like a normal person again, and would always have to cut my food in small bites from then on.

But in late 2020 I finally found God beyond doubts, and let my ego go, and handed it all over to him, because I was exhausted from 4 years of fighting the battle to save my daughter;s childhood, and futire life in general. Had gone from $65K a year down to $17K in a 4 year spiral, and was out of resources to fight with. I had absolutely nothing of any value left to sell, and every job interview came to an end when they looked at my mouth as I spoke certain words

In September of 2020 I finally let it all go, prayed my heart out with a cracking voice and tears in my eyes.

And by the beginning of 2021, because my dental surgeon is a God-send and did the rest of the work for free after he could open back up, the surgeries were over, by early 2021 I finally had my dentures, I just had to learn how to use them, and learn how to eat again with my mouth 30% smaller due to the room that was taken up and had to learn how to talk all over again.

By 2022, I was finally taken seriously again in jpb interviews and had landed a couple of jobs. And could begin the process of paying back a few close friends who were also God-sends who believed in me and had invested a great deal in my fighting my battle to save my daughter, without whom, I'd have never been able to do it.

Recently, I had dinner with that daughter, who is an adult now, and while listening to her and our server Jessee laugh at one of my jokes, I looked down at my plate and finally recognized that I can eat pizza like a normal person again. And I praised the Lord and gave thanks for that battle finally being behind me now.
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