Profiled 6 today.

The sheaths are going to be so rediculously inexpensive that it would be silly to make your own. Still, I admire your zeal. But if they're going to cost $25 or so, then why not just buy the sheath? Won't bother me either way, I'm buying 30 of them. I started buying the sheaths so I could make 2x as many knives. Its really paid off.
 
Andy, I have to say I am regretting getting in on the first batch, these are gonna look sweet.

Have you decided what the other batch's handles are gonna be? I'm not gonna miss the next time around.
 
I haven't 'decided' but Cocobolo is looking like a strong candidate.
 
Check out this old thread that was an update of the Woodsman run project. The wood was Goncalo Alves. If you scroll through the thread, you can see Dylan asking how I cut out Blanks!!! Whoa!
 
Nice Andy we are really getting a great history lesson on the forge lately
Keep the coolness coming:)
 
Fiddleback said:
OK. Here are the promised pics. These pics are where I was coming into this weekend.

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Now, this is what I did to the blanks this weekend.

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And the Runt prototype blank with a Woodsman blank.

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I'll take it!!
 
VANCE said:
I was wondering wtf!$&@

Then I checked the date
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Yeah at first glance I was wondering when Andy suddenly started giving us profile updates again lol.


hasco said:
I'll take it!!
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In the sea of boredom that was the majority of the handmade user knives being shown most often on Blade Forums at the time, it was these sexy lines and curves right here that caught my attention and had me keeping an eye on Andy's work. I knew then there was something special about him.

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Man, that old Woodsman pattern is ugly.
 
Fiddleback said:
Man, that old Woodsman pattern is ugly.
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Of course you see it that way, you've grown into your craft and you have refined the design. At the time you were doing this, most of the knives showing up on the forums were either boring as hell, or intricately beautiful, but not meant to use. You came along and combined form and functionality in a way that the knife world really needed. That "ugly" old Woodsman played a major role in that for me personally, and maybe for a few others. The lines and curves of your Ladyfinger were the next to grab my attention. And you have been continuously bringing art and sex appeal to the user-knife market ever since. These days you and your team produce heirloom quality knives that are as equally at home in the woods or a glass case. I am glad you got laid off, and glad you made that ugly old Woodsman design :)
 
I can't imagine how hard it would be to score one of your knives now, if your were still only able to produce the quantity you did back then but with the cult following you have now :D
 
Cimarron56 said:
I think the Woodsman is a great design. It's not my top profile, but it's high in my collection.
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The Woodsman of today is pretty different from where it started. I do like the newer one better, but that first one was special.
 
SA Condor said:
I can't imagine how hard it would be to score one of your knives now, if your were still only able to produce the quantity you did back then but with the cult following you have now :D
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Well, one reason for the improvement in my skills is that I put so many hours into it as a full time maker. I'm working through my 6th year as a full time maker, and 8th year as a knifemaker. If I had kept on as a part timer, the skills would have come along a lot slower.
 
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