What is your Favorite Fiddleback Forge Knife?

TrainedBullets

TrainedBullets

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I'm pretty new to the world of Fiddleback Forge, but that hasn't stopped me from dropping some serious cash on a couple of incredibly fine blades.

As much as I LOVE the Bushfinger I picked up from DLT a few weeks ago, I have to say the Sneaky Pete I picked up from last Friday's sale has totally blown me away. I really don't even have the words to describe how incredible this knife feels in my hand. Or how perfectly balanced it is. Or how amazing it looks in person (from the beautiful lines, to the very nice spalting, to the sweet handle scale colors and super cool tapered tang).

Without a doubt this is my favorite knife, period. But I doubt that will stop me from making another purchase or two, likely in the 3" to 3.5" range.

So... Do you have a favorite? If so, what is it and why is it your favorite?
 
I cant get away from the Bushnub. The look, the balance and the EDC effectiveness hits my Fiddleback Forge bell right now.
The Bushboot is a really close second. But then the Hiking Buddy............I could go on and on! IMG_2964.JPG
 
Hmmm. I'm also very new. I've bought 4 in the past week. Most of them haven't been delivered though.

So far my baseline is a beautiful Recluse which got me started.

I can see why many others would be appealing but it's too soon to say, for me at least. With as many models as there are, it's going to take me some time to narrow it down. I expect there will be some threads begun to do just that.
 
Like Phillip "the next one". That said for the time being, I'm loving My Gaucho's and Shanks. Next week it might be another one.
 
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For Bushcraft type uses in the woods the Kephart is definitely my favorite model. But being injured and stuck in town lately, the Esquire has become my favorite for edc in the urban world.

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From smallest to largest: Esquire, Hiking Buddy, Nessmuk. The lines, sheer utility, blade shape & the way it nestles in your hand make the Nessmuk vie for top honors, but like most here, I love them all. My production Bushfinger is such a good knife also & in S35VN, great for more salty climes
 
OK, so the geek in me just had to tally up the responses in both threads. What stands out to me is the incredible diversity of favorites. As I counted it, there were 23 different knives listed as favorites among 34 respondants (discounting responses that listed more than one without an explanation I could easily follow).

I'm not sure what that tells me, but I speculate we have a lot of very picky users here (vs straight up collectors) with radically different preferences. That is my kind of group.

What I hope this doesn't tell me is I have to buy 23 different knives to figure it all out :)
 
TrainedBullets said:
OK, so the geek in me just had to tally up the responses in both threads. What stands out to me is the incredible diversity of favorites. As I counted it, there were 23 different knives listed as favorites among 34 respondants (discounting responses that listed more than one without an explanation I could easily follow).

I'm not sure what that tells me, but I speculate we have a lot of very picky users here (vs straight up collectors) with radically different preferences. That is my kind of group.

What I hope this doesn't tell me is I have to buy 23 different knives to figure it all out :)
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Oh, you will need more than that. I'd say I had 50-60 Fiddlebacks/Surls in my first year to get to the 20 or so I have now. Pretty sure there are several folks here that followed that same path.
 
Nbrackett said:
Oh, you will need more than that. I'd say I had 50-60 Fiddlebacks/Surls in my first year to get to the 20 or so I have now. Pretty sure there are several folks here that followed that same path.
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LOL I hear you Bro...I'd love to get to 20 or so "Keepers". Right now I'm pushing 70 and haven't yet taken the time to "thin the herd". Might get to that this winter. There's still quite a few I want to try out..!!!
 
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My favorite Fiddlebacks are the ones I come up with in my mind.

If I had to choose from the few that I own, I'd probably pick my Neckmuk. It's just funky and cool and the handle profile is brilliant for only being a 3 finger knife.
 
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My next one.
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I was coming here to say that! However, that isn't actually true. I'm already at, if not past, the point where I run out of time in a given day/week (month?) to enjoy the ones I already have, any one of which would serve me well from here on out. But, there's so much to look forward to with each newly discovered pattern, or a new iteration of a known quantity.

I now have two of the same pattern in a couple variations (Esquire, Sylvrfalcen); instead of finding one from each pair relinquishable, I'm all the more rapt by the idiosyncracies and variations from knife to knife in these handmade creations, the subtle but telling differences that different variables introduce.

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I'm always looking forward to getting a new model. I haven't found one I don't like!
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Yes, to the first! As to the second? Oh, I have! :oops: I mean, Bushboots are just plain too droopy for me; I really don't care for their blade angle from the handle.

I mean, Bushboots would be fine and all if someone could just give them some Viagra or something, to, I don't know, perk 'em up.
[let's all pretend I didn't just say that out loud.]

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TrainedBullets said:
OK, so the geek in me just had to tally up the responses in both threads. What stands out to me is the incredible diversity of favorites.
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Absolutely! And my neutral-to-negative response to some of the patterns notwithstanding, there's not a one that doesn't catch my attention in a good way. I love the variety, in lines of steel and vast array of materials and handle treatments.

~ P.
 
pertinux said:
Yes, to the first! As to the second? Oh, I have! :oops: I mean, Bushboots are just plain too droopy for me; I really don't care for their blade angle from the handle.

I mean, Bushboots would be fine and all if someone could just give them some Viagra or something, to, I don't know, perk 'em up.
[let's all pretend I didn't just say that out loud.]

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Absolutely! And my neutral-to-negative response to some of the patterns notwithstanding, there's not a one that doesn't catch my attention in a good way. I love the variety, in lines of steel and vast array of materials and handle treatments.

~ P.
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~ "listen Doc...I have these 3 droopy Fiddleback Forge knives...and I'm just too embarrassed to ask anyone else. Is there ANYTHING you have that can help?"

Rather than take anyone to task for anything,The Bushboot designs' alleged "droopiness" in particular, I would only offer that the form must serve an intended function in some way..I suspect there is nothing random about this design.

I mean I could be absolutely wrong..and the Bushboot was just something to toss into the fray.
 
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