Sneak Peek from Fiddleback HQ 12/16/14

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bonafide

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Got my camera battery charged up and made my normal visit to the Forge. The knives coming together this week really had me saying, 'wow' under my breath repeatedly. Some REALLY nice ones coming out for the last Friday before Christmas. Exciting! Pretty sure the Sharks will be out for blood! 30+ photos are posted below, and while I usually take 2-3 times more than what I actually post .. I do believe these pics below should be enough to rock it out with plenty of exclamation points!!! Enjoy yall.

First - found Dylan The Butcher aka The Dark Cobra was grinding away at a fresh new batch.

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Next up, it's dirty work and here's your crew members from today

Ring Leader, Andy handle shaping.

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Ken - working on a specialty handle. Yeah .. that's a hidden tang Hiking Buddy.

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"Vance" doing some finish sanding on the ends of handles prior to glue ups.

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Chris sanding the ends of handles prior to glue ups

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Adam aka Valkyrie Knives - also doing some finish sanding on handles ends prior to glue ups

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Knife Caddy #1

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Knife Caddy #1 getting their glue on ..

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Knife Caddy #2 - getting their handles shaped by Andy.

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Knife Caddy #3 - 90% finished

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Machetes in the queue!

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Extra pre-sneak peek! Bone handles getting their liners glued up. Carvers, then Palmers, and now Bone handles? 2014 is going out with a blast!?!?

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Edited: forgot to add the most recent addition to the shop.
All available Blade Blanks
split the middle; on the right are profiled blade blanks - on the left; blanks after heat treat.

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Holy smokes Bud -- you're not kidding, there are some insane pieces in there for sure!! There's definitely going to be some blood in the water this Friday :emot-yarr:
 
What is this called?

Looks mighty useful.

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Thanks, Bonafide. I look forward to your updates.
 
Lots of awesome blades in the pipeline! Especially like the looks of knife caddy #2. Thanks for the pics, Bud.
 
Wow that new guy looks awesome especially the one in the wood! I may have missed it in another post do you know what they are called?
 
Wow Bud!
Thank you for all these great pics, this week promises to be another exciting one:)
 
Too many pretty ones to single out just a few!! I do however keep going back to look at the blue handled HB though!
 
Some great looking wood in this batch! I too wonder at that blue handle, that a hiking buddy?
 
awesome pics as usual :thumbup:

This seems to be a great batch again, some nice scandies too! Are those metal pins on the scandi Hiking Buddy, or is that just how the black pins look before sanding/polishing?
 
GooberBoober said:
awesome pics as usual :thumbup:

This seems to be a great batch again, some nice scandies too! Are those metal pins on the scandi Hiking Buddy, or is that just how the black pins look before sanding/polishing?
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Only natural or black micarta pins are used - except the mosaic 'beauty marks'.
 
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