Attention Group Buy HB's are ready to ship

awesome! congrats to those who snagged a spot. very interesting how the DI and Osage choices were split pretty evenly, the lone natural canvas is looking great also!

 

Just sent the payment. Sounds like I'll get it just in time for next week's camping trip!

 

Thanks @VANCE and FF team!
Payment sent

 

Payment sent, can't wait to get my hands on this! I hope the group buy was a success and we see another in the near future. Thanks guys!

 

PayPal gift sent. Thanks

 

Payment sent.

Thank you @VANCE for setting all of this up and to Andy and the crew for doing an awesome job. Looking forward to the next group buys (plural).

 

Thanks to everyone for participating. I hope this has really worked out for y'a'll, and I'm interested to hear your opinions of the process and results. I was aslo surprised by the handle choices.

 

Curious minds want to know how you expected the choices to break down...

(No doubt, all of the choices offered were great, but Osage over natural/blue and DIW over natural/white are equal perennial favorites, no?)

 

Payment sent! Once again what a fun process, the pictures truly added a ton to the experience.
Thanks.

 

Thanks for doing this Andy! Really neat way of picking up my first Osage and AEBL Fiddleback. And I completely forgot about the Natural liners on the Osage, they look fantastic.

From the consumer side seemed pretty simple and straightforward, but as Phillip alluded, probably a little more involved on your side with or without any hiccups. The work in progress thread was also a great way of showing the repeatable details by you and crew that go into making Fiddleback Forge knives.

 

^ “simple and straightforward“ captures it perfectly.

Turnaround was also more than quick enough in view of other work being done in the shop and my preference for the team not to feel rushed, to enjoy the process and to have the time to make them up to the extremely high standards we’ve come to both appreciate and expect.



ETA: +1 on what @SLOsmokin said about the pictures adding to the experience

 

I can't emphasize enough how much I liked and apprecaited this. 3 years ago when I started collecting Fiddlebacks the Friday process was fun. If I claimed 3 knives and scored 1 or 2, that was great. But then I reached the point that I was much more selective about what I wanted, and if that would show up in the Friday thread after patiently waiting 6 weeks, and I missed out on it because someone beat me to it by 200 milliseconds, that was not so much fun (and similar with dealers by the time I get to checkout the knife is gone). I have wanted a thin, stainless hiking buddy in a nice wood for a long time, and had basically given up. Same with a few other models. And frankly I don't have time or interest to do the flea market thing. So this was win/win. I am getting a knife I have 'desperately' wanted, and you are getting incremental business you wouldn't have otherwise captured. Only wish I could have purcahsed 2.

Unrelated (or semi-related depending on how you look at it), from a pure business standpoint, I still don't understand why you don't skew what you produce more to thinner stock and/or stainless where there seems to be quite a bit of unmet demand. I do appreciate that the spalting(?) looks better on the A2 knives, but the AEB-L or fiddletextured(?) CPM154 still look great.

Anyway, thank you!

 

Thank you, Paypal Payment sent

 

@VANCE For a final WIP pic, could we get a full shot(s) of a handful of the completed knives?

(The pic of the tray was nice, but definitely left me wanting more)

 

Yes, more photos please!

 

Ha! I understand.
Sure thing

ETA: similarly, also the reason I suggested only a “handful” and not the complete set. But again, I understand.
Given the chance, we WILL behave like children

 

It’s probably safe to put them all in the
“what’s not to like?” category