Sneak Peek from Fiddleback HQ 09/22/2015

[bonafide]

Pleasant visit today at Da Forge. Andy made it back from his 'winning' week at the Knife Makers Guild assoc show in Kansas City - and right back to the grinder. Some cool knives coming down the pipe .. cool Fall temps already creeping in here in Georgia.

Oscar hanging out at the shop on a regular basis now. The dude is too cool for school.

Thought I saw someone asking what does Andy carry or use everyday .. so I swiped this from his pocket for a couple pictures.
It was one of his 'Knife Guild Knives'. Pics do NOT do these knives any justice They do have a feel and look that are museum quality.

Dealer Caddy #1

Dealer Caddy #2

Glue Up Scales table.

Prepping Table - Grinder Room

Custom Shop Caddy on the Prepping Table

Ready for handle shaping Caddy (hand made knives)

Andy's Handle Shaping Caddy for the day.

Looking in at the Grinder Room - prep table in foreground. Handle shaping/sharping area on right, blade profiling/metal work on left

Blanks, blanks, and more blanks .. getting ready for the process

Osprey Knife & Tool Caddy

W.A. Surls's WIPs

That's a sea shell slice inside ..

 

[JesseT]

Man, those Ospreys just keep getting better and better! (I suppose that's the point though )

 

[Scotcha]

WOW!!! very interesting ones in there. Thanks Bud.

 

[swonut]

I will never EVER make another of these DAMNED Bow Legged Ugly Ass Choppers. I've lost two of the three we profiled after hours of time grinding the nerdy bastards. If this third one turns out it will go onto my man room wall and it will take more than $10K to tempt me to sell it. Its an ugly horrid design. I hate it on all levels. The pattern is closed. Never again.

ref: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...hopper-SUCKS-ASS?highlight=bow+legged+chopper

However, maybe it looks a little smaller than a BLC and more a Chopped BL Chopper

I LIKE IT!!!! $Not 10K like it, but....

 

[Gusbuster]

:thumbup:Very nice, thanks Bud!

 

[VANCE]

That's one of the BLC from the batch that made Andy mad

 

[a2vg1095]

That's one of the BLC from the batch that made Andy mad

Nice!!!

 

[VANCE]

Good to see you back around!

 

[a2vg1095]

Yeah, I was lucky enough to find a very good chiropractor couple months back.
It helped me get back to be more active and enjoy things that I was not able to do after the injury.
But I'm glad I checked back just in time for the BLC!

 

[willic]

BLC, what's that?

 

[VANCE]

It's a mythical beast
Rarely seen EVAR!!!!1!1!1!1!

 

[Sandmage]

I am drooling on my keyboard! Thanks for the photos!

 

[willic]

If you taper the tang on that one, it might balance her pretty well!

 

[Brian77]

My son and I had the pleasure to meet Andy and visit awhile at the show on Friday. We almost bought the knife with carbon fiber handle scales he had there. Wow! It was beautiful. Maybe next time. I ma looking forward to owning a couple of these... And perhaps visiting the shop someday. Keep up the good work.

 

[Comprehensivist]

All I want for Christmas is a stainless Padre in my collection.

Phil

 

[Cypress Creek Knives]

I hope this is a good enough place to ask, what is the purpose of re-dyeing the tip of the blade after the initial grind?

 

[swonut]

I hope this is a good enough place to ask, what is the purpose of re-dyeing the tip of the blade after the initial grind?

They do it to track where it is in the production process. Color initially has to do with type of steel (A2 is red dykem and 01 is blue dykem) but the finish tip seems to mostly be blue. I think it's a signal that they still need to do the finish grinds.

 

[Osprey Knife & Tool]

They do it to track where it is in the production process. Color initially has to do with type of steel (A2 is red dykem and 01 is blue dykem) but the finish tip seems to mostly be blue. I think it's a signal that they still need to do the finish grinds.

Blue Dykem is used on 01 Red is used on A2 Also A2 is also identified by an extra hole in the tang. Because after heat treat they all look the same. The dyed tip is Andy's way of telling he left off on 120 grit and still needs to take it up to the A100.

I adopted some of these techniques and made them my own as well, for example I use red for CPM154 as well as an extra hole. O1 and W2 are blue for me. I dont use the Dyed tip method because I usually only have 1 to 2 batches of knives going at once so its easier for me to remember what I have left to do.

I hope this help explain a little the reasoning behind the different topics discussed above

Chris

 

[OneStarLeather]

That blue leuku is a thing of beauty.

 

[Fiddleback]

I hope this is a good enough place to ask, what is the purpose of re-dyeing the tip of the blade after the initial grind?

The Blue tip means the bevels are at 120 grit.