Congrats Josh Dabney!

[HHH Knives]

I just wanted to say Congrats to Josh Dabney!! He took his ABS performance test this weekend at the HHH Hammer In!

Great job Josh, and Thank Kevin for making sure he sharpened that blade good!

 

[Frank Hunter]

Excellent! Good shot, Josh!

 

[Burl Source]

Congratulations Josh!

 

[Brad Lilly]

Congratulations Josh, I never thought you would have any problems.

 

[BossDog]

Good to hear. Congratulations Josh...
Looking forward to seeing your JS entries..
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[Bruce Bump]

no surprise. Congrats Josh!! Are you going shooting for JS in 2014?

 

[Jim Coffee]

Congratulations Josh. Good luck on the rest of your journey and I'm looking forward to seeing your test knives.

 

[LlamaHerder]

Congrats, Josh!

 

[Gary Miller]

congrats,

 

[Mark Behnke]

Congratulations Josh that's great news.

 

[Frank Niro]

Wonderful, Josh !!! Frank

 

[Boatbuilder]

Congrats Josh

 

[TacticallySharp]

Way to go Josh!!! Congrats!

 

[Lagrange]

That's great! Congrats Josh!

 

[Calvin Robinson]

Congratulations Josh.

 

[bubba-san]

Way to go Josh , I always knew you had the right stuff . good luck my friend ....... Bubba-san

 

[Bruce Bump]

Josh, where are ya? Come here and take a bow.
Hey who was the MS that observed your cut,n,bend?

 

[Josh Dabney]

My apologies for delayed response folks

Got back in yesterday afternoon from the trek to Michigan.

Thank You to everyone for the support and encouragement !!!!!!

In hindsight I couldn't think of a better way to get my performance test done than going all the way to my good friend Randy's house and getting it done surrounded by friends and under the supervision of Master Smith Kevin Cashen who was by coincidence also attending the hammer-in.

Kevin was of course fantastic in critiquing a couple other knives I took for that purpose. That said, he was extremely encouraging and ended with "See you in Atlanta" Worked my butt off getting those critique knives done in time and that was not wasted effort.

I may or may not be ready for Atlanta this coming year but it'll be only due to having enough time to make the knives. I feel pretty confident I'm up to the task of making 5 passing knives but I do have a couple other irons in the fire at the moment that may be profitable but also a drain on my time. Currently this other iron is my priority but we'll see how that washes out in the next month or two.

Appreciate everyone's comments. It feels great to have taken the first step on the road to JS :happy:

 

[backtines]

Congrats Josh !! Tippin my hat at ya bro !

 

[Rudy Joly]

Congrats Josh.

Rudy