{"id":422,"date":"2010-05-26T02:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-05-26T02:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:09:22","slug":"hand-forged-knives-by-andy-the-basco-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2010\/05\/26\/hand-forged-knives-by-andy-the-basco-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-forged Knives by Andy &#8220;the Basco&#8221; Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Buber&#8217;s Basque Page likely already know Andy Franco.\u00a0 Since discovering his Basque roots, he has been very involved in the Boise Basque community.\u00a0 Owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calicoforge.com\/\">Calico Forge and Knife Company<\/a>, Andy has weaved his Basque heritage into his work.\u00a0 He made the replica harpoons that were featured in the Boise Basque Museum&#8217;s exhibit on Basque whaling and he also created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buber.net\/Basque\/PhotoAlbum\/index.php?spgmGal=GuestAlbums\/AndyFranco\">amazing lauburu<\/a> that he donated for the 2008 dinner\/fundraiser for the Boise Basque Museum and Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>His focus more recently has been knives, as evident by his company website.\u00a0 New Mexico Euskal Etxea asked Andy if he would be interested and able to donate something for our own fundraiser, a Tapas and Wine event to be held on June 19.\u00a0 Andy seized the opportunity to take his knife-making in a direction he&#8217;d been thinking about for some time: kitchen knives.\u00a0 He made two beautiful knives, pictured below, that he generously donated to NMEE.\u00a0 He also made an iron stone hunter knife, also pictured (with the rougher-decorated blade).\u00a0 All three pieces are wonderful.\u00a0 We thank Andy for his generosity in sharing his amazing skills with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Buber&#8217;s Basque Page likely already know Andy Franco.\u00a0 Since discovering his Basque roots, he has been very involved in the Boise Basque community.\u00a0 Owner of Calico Forge and Knife Company, Andy has weaved his Basque heritage into his work.\u00a0 He made the replica harpoons that were featured in the Boise Basque Museum&#8217;s exhibit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[405,181,406,407,32,408],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photos","tag-andy-franco","tag-boise-basque-museum","tag-calico-forge","tag-knives","tag-lauburu","tag-new-mexico-euskal-etxea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-6O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}