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2014 was not my first time attending the Blade Show, but it was my first year attending with a Fiddleback addiction. My off time is usually consumed with knives, tomahawks and leather work. My wife .. tolerates my passion and I appreciate her for it. Saturday Night of the Blade Show is deemed the Fiddleback group dinner night and the crew invited me to join them .. and I brought my wife along for a 'date night' outing. Two birds - one stone. I thought feed her a nice dinner, supply her with wine, and she can meet/chat with the always interesting Fiddleback crew .. it would be fun and it was. It was a great time. After dinner, we all gathered in what's called 'the pit' at the hotel of the Cobb Galleria. It's an open air bar and a bunch of the knife show makers, dealers, and industry people (300+) are hanging out BSing about everything steel. EVERYONE has some sort of a blade, sword, axe, or razor on them and will gladly show it off if you ask .. and one guy did just that with his Damascus straight razor.
My wife is not a knife enthusiast per se .. she is a Master Barber by profession. She owns quite a few straight razors and is quite proficient in using them. So she sees this guy showing off his straight razor in 'the pit' and pushes people she doesn't know out of her way to see it. She asks to hold it and makes a face of disappointment. She tells the maker he made a beautiful razor but it is totally unbalanced and gives him some pointers on how it needs to be made for someone like her to use professionally. In short .. the entire encounter was kinda funny. The maker didnt know her. He's looking at her like she's a nut .. and she's kinda slurring her speech from the bottle of wine she's consumed. Andy does know the maker .. and he's standing next to him while my wife is flipping the guy's straight razor around like a Ninja. I tell Andy, she's a Master Barber and everyone chuckles about it. Also there was Mistwalker .. who had a brand new Fiddleback Asp, tapered tang in Arizona Ironwood. Absolutely beautiful knife .. and extremely well balanced. Somehow .. my wife gets to hold the Asp and she starts that Ninja straight razor spinning hold stuff again. She makes a face .. but this time it's one of the 'yeah yeah' faces and she says, 'ya see, I could shave with this! Very nicely balanced!' ... so Andy says, 'that would be cool!' and I say, 'yeah, and we could get her to shave Ken's 3 day beard!!' and Andy says, 'heck yeah!' and Ken says, 'whu?' .. So Andy makes my wife a knife; an ASP, tapered tang, in Arizona Ironwood.
The wife, practicing with her Asp .. and before you ask, heck no that's not me. I wont let that woman get nowhere near me with a knife.
The Asp is untouched as it left Andy's shop.
My wife is not a knife enthusiast per se .. she is a Master Barber by profession. She owns quite a few straight razors and is quite proficient in using them. So she sees this guy showing off his straight razor in 'the pit' and pushes people she doesn't know out of her way to see it. She asks to hold it and makes a face of disappointment. She tells the maker he made a beautiful razor but it is totally unbalanced and gives him some pointers on how it needs to be made for someone like her to use professionally. In short .. the entire encounter was kinda funny. The maker didnt know her. He's looking at her like she's a nut .. and she's kinda slurring her speech from the bottle of wine she's consumed. Andy does know the maker .. and he's standing next to him while my wife is flipping the guy's straight razor around like a Ninja. I tell Andy, she's a Master Barber and everyone chuckles about it. Also there was Mistwalker .. who had a brand new Fiddleback Asp, tapered tang in Arizona Ironwood. Absolutely beautiful knife .. and extremely well balanced. Somehow .. my wife gets to hold the Asp and she starts that Ninja straight razor spinning hold stuff again. She makes a face .. but this time it's one of the 'yeah yeah' faces and she says, 'ya see, I could shave with this! Very nicely balanced!' ... so Andy says, 'that would be cool!' and I say, 'yeah, and we could get her to shave Ken's 3 day beard!!' and Andy says, 'heck yeah!' and Ken says, 'whu?' .. So Andy makes my wife a knife; an ASP, tapered tang, in Arizona Ironwood.
The wife, practicing with her Asp .. and before you ask, heck no that's not me. I wont let that woman get nowhere near me with a knife.
The Asp is untouched as it left Andy's shop.
Though I must admit, I'd sure like to be there to do the still shots 
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