Mistwalker
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I've already done a thread on this knife some time back when I had had it a while and put it through some tests. But for anyone who doesn't remember it... I first bought this Bushlore from Rick Marchand almost 3 years ago. It never was meant for sale, he made it as a prototype to test out a method of doing leather handles. I was lucky enough to get it at a really good price in an agreement for me to test the knife because he was really busy at the time...and has been ever since I think.
While hanging out with him at Blade I showed it to him so he could see how it was holding up, which by the way it is holding up very well. He got to looking at some of the details of the knife that he now does a little differently and then informed me my knife would be returning to Ontario with him for a couple of weeks. So...now...a few weeks later
, I was pleasantly surprised to find it in my mail box today. The W&SS relevance comes in the end of the thread.
He did a little cleaning and re-profiling, smoothing here and there as when i first received it the knife was still in a bit of a rough state because as I said earlier he had never meant to sell it...but undeterred by that argument I kept bugging him. I actually bought it for my daughter to start with...so technically it isn't mine. But...in the interest of ensuring it isn't just given to some boy...err excuse me...the love of her life of some particular month (she is seventeen now) I think I am going to hang on to it for now. Who knows...maybe she'll forget what it looks like and I'll get her a Condor or a Mora... something I can actually replace, and keep this one myself
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After re-profiling he put a fresh edge on it too. If you've never had the chance to feel one of Rick's edges I can tell you it is an experience all it's own.
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While hanging out with him at Blade I showed it to him so he could see how it was holding up, which by the way it is holding up very well. He got to looking at some of the details of the knife that he now does a little differently and then informed me my knife would be returning to Ontario with him for a couple of weeks. So...now...a few weeks later
, I was pleasantly surprised to find it in my mail box today. The W&SS relevance comes in the end of the thread.
He did a little cleaning and re-profiling, smoothing here and there as when i first received it the knife was still in a bit of a rough state because as I said earlier he had never meant to sell it...but undeterred by that argument I kept bugging him. I actually bought it for my daughter to start with...so technically it isn't mine. But...in the interest of ensuring it isn't just given to some boy...err excuse me...the love of her life of some particular month (she is seventeen now) I think I am going to hang on to it for now. Who knows...maybe she'll forget what it looks like and I'll get her a Condor or a Mora... something I can actually replace, and keep this one myself
.
After re-profiling he put a fresh edge on it too. If you've never had the chance to feel one of Rick's edges I can tell you it is an experience all it's own.
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