Recent content by tomwatson

side area I replaced an old tin roof and cleaned it up well. It will hold all my welding equipment.

After 40 years of drafting experience, I use a #2 pencil, not kidding. My son is an architect in Boston and he uses pencils as much as he does CAD. It is a must for him to be able o use the board with a pencil. He also uses colored pencils. He is the senior architect at his company in...

A black knife has always been hard to pull off, but you did it. Congratulations.

Thanks Mark, I really like your Scandi grinds. Tough knife.

Here is a link that might be of use to you. hypefreeblades.com

I"m still wondering what would have happened if Ford had painted all of its cars black.

Ken, there are companies in Europe that make a swing arm surface grinder that works just like what you have here. The arm has heavy duty bearings in it and it swings just like a pantagraph. They use a cup style grinding stone/wheel. They are very accurate.

Yeah I like that one just from the design. I have seen a good bit of your work and everything you make is well thought out. You do a good job. The white handle has a much finer rub and that makes the other knife look somewhat rougher. The jig was a necessity for me after Parkinson's set in...

You are doing the right thing by developing your own technique by using jigs and free hand. The knife shown with white handles is free hand ground and the knife with the dark handles was ground with a jig.

I flat grind and hollow grind. And I use a jig now. Have been grinding for 35 years and I wished I had started using a jig 35 years ago. My grinds were always very good because I worked at it. But now they are darn near perfect. When I got in the Guild it was preached that you should only...

It looks like metal trash on the hot roll. In this last picture there two other marks that are too straight to be anything else but metal trash.

Red G10 is as blood red as you can get

I go over the flats every time I change grits. This is the result.

Very nice work.

I like your work. Very nice.