Mistwalker
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I was just sitting here trying to think of a way to maybe generate more discussion here in the group, more lie the old days here. So I was looking throuh some of my old Fiddleback Forge images, from 10 to 14 years ago, and an idea popped into my head whn I realized some of them have cool stories to tell. So I thought I'd try this as a way to see if I could get us talking more. I'll start, and hopefull others will follow. The whole point is just to have some conversations and share some experiences with our little community of like-minded interests.
I got this Camp knife back in the winter 2012. And was just blown away with the whole thing. With the tapered tamge and the high grind, the balance and inertia development was really impressive. It was a chopping Machine, It impressed the own of every hand I put it in.
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It whittle feathers better than most exprected.
It even became a star in a Bushcrafting knife competition it wasn't even entered in. It was used as a test knife to see if the hard, fibrous, and silica-heavy green bamboo was an unreasonable material to test with, after the first 4 or 5 knives in a row had bad failures. It was passed around to all of the testers and they all chapped through multiple sections of the green bamboo, these are just a few of the smaller pieces I gathered and put in an immage. The edge suffered no noticeable damage, and the challenge was resumed with no further failures. So, in a way this Camp saved the day when everything had come to a grinding halt.
Then that winter it, and the EDK I paired it with, were the trusted knives I carried in strange new woods in a frozen winter wonderland, about 700 miles north of the sight of that knife challenge, when I was testing other gear for other companies.
I got this Camp knife back in the winter 2012. And was just blown away with the whole thing. With the tapered tamge and the high grind, the balance and inertia development was really impressive. It was a chopping Machine, It impressed the own of every hand I put it in.



It whittle feathers better than most exprected.

It even became a star in a Bushcrafting knife competition it wasn't even entered in. It was used as a test knife to see if the hard, fibrous, and silica-heavy green bamboo was an unreasonable material to test with, after the first 4 or 5 knives in a row had bad failures. It was passed around to all of the testers and they all chapped through multiple sections of the green bamboo, these are just a few of the smaller pieces I gathered and put in an immage. The edge suffered no noticeable damage, and the challenge was resumed with no further failures. So, in a way this Camp saved the day when everything had come to a grinding halt.

Then that winter it, and the EDK I paired it with, were the trusted knives I carried in strange new woods in a frozen winter wonderland, about 700 miles north of the sight of that knife challenge, when I was testing other gear for other companies.

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