By Erin Schwager
Journalist
Project earns first place at county fair for Royal man
Low expectation, high reward
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August 25, 2022
Erin Schwager | SAM
Top of the (open) class • Max Heiter, of Royal, entered a knife made from melted fiber optic lines and a deer antler, along with a woodburned plaque, in open class at the 2022 Antelope County Fair. Heiter's creation won first place.
Max Heiter, of Royal, took a project to the Antelope County Fair with low expectations. Later, he learned his open class exhibit received the first-place blue ribbon for the 65-and-over class.
It all started when Heiter saw a fiber optic knife made by someone on the internet a little over a year ago.
"I saw a fiber optic knife somebody made on the internet, so I get on the internet and looked for this fiber optic and I found it in Oklahoma," he said. "I thought 'I'm gonna try it; he did it, maybe I can do it.' Well I got about five of them (fiber optic slabs). The one knife didn't look too goo...
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