Rapscallion, Who All Has Them?

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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I've played with the Rapscallion here and there and really like it a lot. I love the attitude of the grind lines, I really like the handle to blade ratio,and I like the high handle which is a little bit like a bigger Toboggan with a longer blade and more intent. To me it has the good physical features of a small hand made butcher knife I carried years ago, but then re-profiled for better penetration, and sex appealed to the power of 10. I like the blade control a lot, and I like how the swell to the pommel wedges in the hand in pull cuts when slicing meat, even with greasy hands. I think it's one of my favorite pieces of highly functional art I have seen come out of the forge so far.

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I love the spalted maple on that one. I definitely think it belongs on the underrated list.
 
Nbrackett said:
I love the spalted maple on that one. I definitely think it belongs on the underrated list.
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This handle is gorgeous, the whole knife is in my opinion, but the handle is just beautiful. I agree, it definitely does.
 
Don't have one but the spalted maple is gorgeous. Will match my old school Ladyfinger
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Brian has a Wingman that matches too.

If you EVER feel like passing on that Ladyfinger please let me know. It and a couple Ironwoods are the nicest I've ever seen.
 
Nice pipe! Knife is good looking too!
you got the best fiddleback pictures.
Lunch always looks good in them haha.
 
Nbrackett said:
Brian has a Wingman that matches too.

If you EVER feel like passing on that Ladyfinger please let me know. It and a couple Ironwoods are the nicest I've ever seen.
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Thanks. Will most definitely do :)

Yeah, I have seen that Wingman. It's stunning!!!
 
Nbrackett said:
Brian has a Wingman that matches too.

If you EVER feel like passing on that Ladyfinger please let me know. It and a couple Ironwoods are the nicest I've ever seen.
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I wish it was Spalted maple, but it's Black Ash, the colors just look good together :)

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Thorns said:
Nice pipe! Knife is good looking too!
you got the best fiddleback pictures.
Lunch always looks good in them haha.
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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy them!
 
VANCE said:
yall are it,as far as I can tell

those are they only 2 sold of the 5ish offered on Fiddleback Friday.


Elite group :thumbup:
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Wow, Pity really. Awesome knife. It's somewhat like a really sexy butcher knife with major attitude. Really hard for me not to love that :) I hope to get another one later. I want one in tapered 5/32 and some sort of nice wooden handle.
 
I have one and have used and carried it. I love the knife. Its a bushcrafting knife with a bit more to look at than usual. Functionally, its a hard worker. Really, its a very simple knife. Mine is 3/32" thick. I filleted trout with mine. Handled the whole day well.
 
Fiddleback said:
I have one and have used and carried it. I love the knife. Its a bushcrafting knife with a bit more to look at than usual. Functionally, its a hard worker. Really, its a very simple knife. Mine is 3/32" thick. I filleted trout with mine. Handled the whole day well.
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Yeah yeah, I know I know. Thanks to my PTS and too much dwelling on the TVA presence here having worked at a couple of their nuclear power plants and seen a lot of stupidity within, I am one of the few who would be ok with all of my Fiddlebacks being in 5/32 and even 3/16 for ones like the Protagonist I want. Luckily Britt keeps me from feeling all alone here :D Lol, I feel about this one just like I feel about my Gaucho, I have my 5/32 one now, for all I care you could make all the rest 3/32 or 1/16 Now I just have to land my 5/32 Rapscallion and hope that doesn't take me as long as the Gaucho did :) I do really like this pattern though. Extremely functional and very intuitive in use for me personally. I've only borrowed this one for the project though. I need to land one of my own later so I will feel more relaxed using it in bushcraft uses. I don't like pushing anyone else's knives very hard, particularly one with such a beautiful, and not all that common handle material.
 
I can't believe I've bought the only 2 that have sold on a Friday. If someone with more skill than I at reviewing/comparing these knives would like to try one out just let me know. All it will cost you is a post here and return postage.
 
Nbrackett said:
I can't believe I've bought the only 2 that have sold on a Friday. If someone with more skill than I at reviewing/comparing these knives would like to try one out just let me know. All it will cost you is a post here and return postage.
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I agree. If you want to send the green one out for testing or a pass around, I'd love to see someone else take it on as well. I will send this one back for now and let you get to enjoy it a while, and then go back to that part of the project next spring. Maybe by late spring some of my favorite woods will have grown back and look a little less like the fringes of Mordor...
 
It's an intriguing model. I go back and forth over trying to pick one up. I really like the looks of the Forager though now that I have looked at pics of it for a while. That one looks like it would be fun to swing around.
 
When I can swing it I'd really like to pick up one of these.

Brian, that black Ash on the one your playing with looks great!
 
Yea, the Forager is really fun too.
 
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