What Fiddleback Forge knife are you totin' today?

[Bmurray]

Another pic of the wife's hiking buddy

 

[Mish_Mike]

 

[VANCE]

Bob & Mike
Those are 2 great looking knives!

 

[NOLA]

 

[VANCE]

Veey nice combo NOLA

 

[pertinux]

Yesterday, today: Oreo Stubbymuk.

After yardwork yesterday:

~ P.

 

[Tim the Wizard]

Got these two on rotation right now...

And a 19 on the hip

 

[Tim the Wizard]

Also had the Trail Hand out...

 

[Kal-El]

Got these two on rotation right now...

Nice Jarrett. Haven't seen a Ban in a short while.

 

[varga49]

This today.

 

[newyork]

For a while I used the Hunter on bamboo in the yard



Now this

 

[Comprehensivist]

Dang Jarrett! That is a great duo to choose from. As gorgeous as your Mamushi is, it is the Ban Tang really speaks to me. The shape and proportions of the handle look like a perfect match for the guardless blade. If you ever get tired of "rotating" that one in your line-up. please let me know.

Phil

Got these two on rotation right now...

 

[Mish_Mike]

I'm a little bit speechess...

 

[Kalsu]

Another pic of the wife's hiking buddy

Nice Hiking Buddy. That has turned out to be my favorite Fiddleback so far

 

[Kalsu]

Todays carry. The sight I bought it from said that the wood was cocobolo. I am not sure though. Kind of thinking it might be iron wood? What do you all think? I had to glue the strip of leather on the bottom of the sheath because one of my other hiking buddy's poked right through the bottom of the sheath! Sharp little bugger.

 

[Tim the Wizard]

Easy way to tell... cocobolo smells sweet... ironwood smells nasty or not at all

 

[Kalsu]

Easy way to tell... cocobolo smells sweet... ironwood smells nasty or not at all

Haaa, no smell at all. I am laughing because my kids are asking me why I am smelling my knife. It's for science..

 

[Tim the Wizard]

You gotto rub it a bit first to warm it up and get some oil going....

 

[Tim the Wizard]

Also, cocobolo tends to be more porous than ironwood. Ironwood will be really smooth. Cocobolo sometimes has little nicks and notches dispersed throughout.

 

[pertinux]

Todays carry. The sight I bought it from said that the wood was cocobolo. I am not sure though. Kind of thinking it might be iron wood? What do you all think? I had to glue the strip of leather on the bottom of the sheath because one of my other hiking buddy's poked right through the bottom of the sheath! Sharp little bugger.

It's hard to tell from just one picture...? While I can see what you mean by ironwood, I can also see the redder tones and some of the grain structure I associate with cocobolo.

No matter what, that's a beautiful knife!

~ P.