The Road To Fiddleback Friday: How The Knives Are Made (Photo Heavy)

Bad ass post, now i want 20 more knives......


BTW i think that apparatus is a bio-metric time clock, ie it scans your fingerprint....
 
Brian,
Another AWESOME thread my friend; you are on a roll!! Between your's and Bud's posts, the sharking community has been provided with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the FBF shop! Thank you again for your time and effort on this undertaking; job well done!

Best,

Will
 
Thanks Brian for the photo documentary! Great pics. It's cool to see the flow. Thanks for the time and effort to do this.
 
Wow Brian, outstanding job man! Excellent pics and great info.

I hate your pics as much as I love them; they make me spend money!!! Your pics are responsible for dozens of my fiddleback purchases. It's definitely knife porn.

Keep on keepin' on brother:thumbup:
 
Thanks guys, I am glad you have all enjoyed the post. While I am, amazingly, not having any trouble loading the thread on my phone, the thought of trying to properly reply on is not a good one. I will do that when I get in.
 
I am going to echo what several others have said. This is one of the best thread ever on the fiddleback forum. For a long time I was wondering what the process was in creating fiddlebacks. By looking at Bud's weekly visits I have been able to put most of it together, but to see it here in one place, clearly laid out is totally epic. Your photography skills are awesome, and so are your storytelling skills. Thank you so much for doing the Brian. I am sure for years to come people will look back to this post. It helps create a deeper bond between makers and buyers. It is fun for us and great for business. Well done!!!!!!

Tod
 
trestle said:
Loved some of the rare sights like the box of already glued up scales/liners and the shot with the pins and bullseye waiting to be glued to the blade.

Thanks for doing it in pics and not video. Some of us still prefer the old mediums.
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Thank you. The more I saw, the more I liked, and the more I wanted to share the whole story. I much prefer stills to video personally, I like the moment captured in time.


gtr60 said:
Best. Thread. Ever. Incredible job, seriously I'm speechless and/or overtired, but thank you for putting so much into this
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Wow, thank you very much! And yeah, I know that feeling. I have been working the last eight days solid, and the work day that started yesterday more is still going for me...but not for much longer...


Bush.Hacker said:
Don't know the point of that other thread, your posts and pictures are always a welcomed distraction. When they are here, I don't have to venture out looking for them.

I often wonder the process that goes into the knives that I have come to admire so much so I do thank you for covering it so well.

I can imagine those images of Andy/Ken on the computer were the same faces they had reading some of the forum posts this morning lol.

Some serious Dre Mixr headphones - what's on The Man's playlist each day while grinding away: George Straight, Hank Williams Jr., AC/DC, 2Pac, Brittany Spears?
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Well, when I realized just how many photos I was going to use, and having been fussed at last year for using even half as many photos. I thought I should at least ask if it was going to cause any problems. That said, I had no trouble loading the entire thread quickly with 4G, so maybe that is n longer the problem it once was.

Thank you I am glad you enjoyed the post. Some o the posts from earlier were enough to raise some eyebrows...

Yah know, from observing Dylan's air guitar I assume he was digging some rock. I never had a clue what Andy was listening to.


Comprehensivist said:
This is an awesome testament to the dedication and hard work that Andy and the crew put into making these functional works of art.

Your photos are amazing Brian! You added just the right amount of text to tell the story while letting the pictures tell the rest. This is an epic accomplishment that is a testament to your dedication to your craft. Amazing!!

This is my favorite thread ever on this sub-forum. I recommend that it should be made a sticky for easy reference.

Thanks Brian!

Phil
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That is exactly what I set out to illustrate, glad to know I was able to do so.

Thank you sir, I am very glad you liked the post. I have always felt that pictures say so much more than I have the vocabulary for, I like visual presentation. I have always been passionate about how I go about whatever I am doing. Whatever it is I want to walk away feeling like I did it as well as I could do it. Hence the stockpile of over 3K photos taken to work with. Andy is very passionate about his work. I wanted to attempt to capture that. We have a lot of similar thoughts and philosophies, and I tend to enjoy the process and like the out come when our two passions in life come together in photos.


Bill510c said:
Absolutely phenomenal Brian. I really felt like I was reading a magazine article rather than a forum thread. Extremely well done start to finish, thank you..
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Thank you very much Bill! Ya know, if I had my way, my magazine articles would have a lot more of my photos in them and a lot fewer words :)


Case_XX said:
Very cool, thanks for posting this.
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winger51 said:
Excellent photo documentary.
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Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked it.


CopperCreek said:
Bad ass post, now i want 20 more knives......


BTW i think that apparatus is a bio-metric time clock, ie it scans your fingerprint....
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Oh yeah, how do you think I felt...I was actually handling them too :)

LMAO!


NoFair said:
Great pics Brian, thanks for sharing:thumbup:
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Thank you sir, I am glad you enjoyed the post :)


RRaconteur said:
How many ways can one say "WOW!!!"????

A HUGE undertaking for which we are eternally grateful.

Wow. Wow. Wow.




I second this.


Michael
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Thank you Michael, I am really glad you enjoyed it so much!

I don't know about Sticky status...Andy really isn't in to sticky threads all that much. He doesn't want any more than he has to have if I remember the conversation correctly.


xxwjtxx said:
Brian,
Another AWESOME thread my friend; you are on a roll!! Between your's and Bud's posts, the sharking community has been provided with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the FBF shop! Thank you again for your time and effort on this undertaking; job well done!

Best,

Will
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Thank you will! I got a bit anxious and had to post some pics from there when I did the two-for thread :) I am glad you guys are enjoying the post as much as I enjoyed capturing those moments in time!


thurin said:
Thanks Brian for the photo documentary! Great pics. It's cool to see the flow. Thanks for the time and effort to do this.
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Thank you Nathan, I am glad you liked it. There are things in life that are just worth taking the time to. I had wanted to do this for some time, I am glad the opportunity came along.


Joe Duder said:
Wow Brian, outstanding job man! Excellent pics and great info.

I hate your pics as much as I love them; they make me spend money!!! Your pics are responsible for dozens of my fiddleback purchases. It's definitely knife porn.

Keep on keepin' on brother:thumbup:
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Thank you Josiah! I anm very glad you liked them!

Lol, if it is any consolation, my pics play a big role in my Fiddleback purchases also :D

I would know how not to man :)


Cdmayhem said:
Seriously the coolest post!
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!


Hone said:
LOL quenching in an ammo can...Gotta love Andy's style.
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Yeah, Andy definitely has style, and ammo cans make great quench baths. They are in use in a lot of the knife shops I visit.


viral said:
That's cool. Good job mistman. That's Neato torpedo.
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed the post :)

hasco said:
I am going to echo what several others have said. This is one of the best thread ever on the fiddleback forum. For a long time I was wondering what the process was in creating fiddlebacks. By looking at Bud's weekly visits I have been able to put most of it together, but to see it here in one place, clearly laid out is totally epic. Your photography skills are awesome, and so are your storytelling skills. Thank you so much for doing the Brian. I am sure for years to come people will look back to this post. It helps create a deeper bond between makers and buyers. It is fun for us and great for business. Well done!!!!!!

Tod
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Thank you, and once I started going through the photos from that first day, I knew what I needed to do. If it is fun and great for all involved, then it was definitely worth the time it took to put it all together!!
 
Epic, great to see the process and all the hard work that goes into making the knives.
 
Shoot. I could almost cry looking at these pics. It's like you went to my Disneyland!

I wanna go.

And I wanna go to Blade to see Andy and shake his hand after all these years.







Thanks for sharing Bri.
 
:)Brian,
You have outdone yourself. I really like this thread. It shows the A-Z way that the knives are made, kinda. I'm sure you have several other pics to share. :)
 
Wonderful post. So what happens to the knives that don't make it to FB friday?
 
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