Mistwalker
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Among the things I got to see this weekend were some of Matt's knives really put to the test...one of them a really cool destruction test to see where he's at. His challenge knife did extremely well in the challenge, and was snagged by one of the users as soon as the tests were over. Later that day he decided to put his own knife through the ringer to see where he stood structurally and left many of us impressed. The knife was batonned with, pried with, gouged in hard wood until a minor tip failure, then re-ground to sharp and beat on some more. Once the tip was repaired it was dropped tip first onto concrete multiple times with really impressive results. Then it was batonned some more through knots including several pitch wood knots used to truncate seasoned oak, and then finally into a vice. In the vice it was bent past forty degrees and returned to true multiple times, then taken past that to a clean break. Nice tight grain structure in that Aldos 1095. In the end a few of us left with new Tackett knives, and several left remembering a new name in knife making. I've been seeing great things from Matt, and expect it to only get better from here.
