backtines
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One Special Knife with Special Meaning
My son Mikey is going to be 16 years old next month. The kid eats, sleeps and dreams bow hunting and love for the outdoors. He is currently involved with a few other kids putting a hunting web series together called Empire State Whitetails. What’s great about it is, they’re four young hunters who share the same passion and goal. Pursue to dominate the outdoors! They do all their own filming, editing and hunting. Please look them up on face book.
Saturday, Mikey met the newest member of the show. His name is Al. While talking to Mikey , Al noticed the Knife Mikey was wearing. After finding out where the knife came from and talking about some of the details of this knife , Al had to have one , especially knowing that it was hand made by the both of us. Needless to say by the end of the day they were calling me because Al wanted to purchase a knife from me that resembled Mikeys.
While Mikey and Al were talking, Al was telling Mikey How special his dad is. He was telling him that his dad is a super special person. He’s a fighter that has no quit . He told Mikey that he has had some bad luck over the last year or so. Al told Mikey that his only brother was unfortunately struck and killed by a truck last year. It was the most difficult time in his life, something that no one would ever imagine. Shortly after his brother was killed, his dad was diagnoced with cancer. In a short time the cancer spread to his esophagus and now in his lungs. He has had many operations and refuses to quit. He will not let the “Punk” cancer beat him. I believe at this point the cancer is in remission . This was some really hard news for MIkey to swallow all at once. I guess this was the first time Mikey met someone roughly his age that lost a brother and has a very ill dad. I guess his emotions started taking over.
That Saturday night I was out to dinner with my wife and some friends and I started receiving a pile of texts from Mikey. He wanted to know what my costs were in knife materials .I asked why ? He said that he wanted to make Al’s dad a knife. I told him that there will be no costs to make this knife. I can tell in the texts that something jumped into Mikeys mind and that he was on a mission .
Sunday morning while having my coffee, Mikey came into the kitchen ready,set ,go! He showed me a drawing of the knife he wanted to make . It had some writing on the main bevel he wanted to have etched . It said “ Never out of the fight “! He told me that those words represent Al’s Dad , a man of great power and courage to fight on through his bad luck . On the heel of the knife , he wants to put the birth date of Als brother so every time he wears that knife , his son will be right there with him. He also told me that he wanted to go turkey hunting with Al and his dad and hand deliver this knife to his father. I was touched listening to my sons plan.
When Mikey told Al that he was gonna do this for his father , you can only imagine the gratitude and emotions coming out of Al’s mouth. He was so touched that someone he just met that very same day would do something like this for him.
I finished my coffee, we went downstairs and began working on the most powerful , beautiful , encouraging, inspirational project that I had the privledge to work on with my son. Im so proud of him !
Ill Post the pics as we go through the process of making one on the most special knives ever . Enjoy.
Thats it for tonight Ill try to post some up tomorrow.
My son Mikey is going to be 16 years old next month. The kid eats, sleeps and dreams bow hunting and love for the outdoors. He is currently involved with a few other kids putting a hunting web series together called Empire State Whitetails. What’s great about it is, they’re four young hunters who share the same passion and goal. Pursue to dominate the outdoors! They do all their own filming, editing and hunting. Please look them up on face book.
Saturday, Mikey met the newest member of the show. His name is Al. While talking to Mikey , Al noticed the Knife Mikey was wearing. After finding out where the knife came from and talking about some of the details of this knife , Al had to have one , especially knowing that it was hand made by the both of us. Needless to say by the end of the day they were calling me because Al wanted to purchase a knife from me that resembled Mikeys.
While Mikey and Al were talking, Al was telling Mikey How special his dad is. He was telling him that his dad is a super special person. He’s a fighter that has no quit . He told Mikey that he has had some bad luck over the last year or so. Al told Mikey that his only brother was unfortunately struck and killed by a truck last year. It was the most difficult time in his life, something that no one would ever imagine. Shortly after his brother was killed, his dad was diagnoced with cancer. In a short time the cancer spread to his esophagus and now in his lungs. He has had many operations and refuses to quit. He will not let the “Punk” cancer beat him. I believe at this point the cancer is in remission . This was some really hard news for MIkey to swallow all at once. I guess this was the first time Mikey met someone roughly his age that lost a brother and has a very ill dad. I guess his emotions started taking over.
That Saturday night I was out to dinner with my wife and some friends and I started receiving a pile of texts from Mikey. He wanted to know what my costs were in knife materials .I asked why ? He said that he wanted to make Al’s dad a knife. I told him that there will be no costs to make this knife. I can tell in the texts that something jumped into Mikeys mind and that he was on a mission .
Sunday morning while having my coffee, Mikey came into the kitchen ready,set ,go! He showed me a drawing of the knife he wanted to make . It had some writing on the main bevel he wanted to have etched . It said “ Never out of the fight “! He told me that those words represent Al’s Dad , a man of great power and courage to fight on through his bad luck . On the heel of the knife , he wants to put the birth date of Als brother so every time he wears that knife , his son will be right there with him. He also told me that he wanted to go turkey hunting with Al and his dad and hand deliver this knife to his father. I was touched listening to my sons plan.
When Mikey told Al that he was gonna do this for his father , you can only imagine the gratitude and emotions coming out of Al’s mouth. He was so touched that someone he just met that very same day would do something like this for him.
I finished my coffee, we went downstairs and began working on the most powerful , beautiful , encouraging, inspirational project that I had the privledge to work on with my son. Im so proud of him !
Ill Post the pics as we go through the process of making one on the most special knives ever . Enjoy.
Thats it for tonight Ill try to post some up tomorrow.
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