Steven Long
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You do excellent work Jason. Those beauties should have no problem selling.
Good luck at the show and thanks for sharing...
Good luck at the show and thanks for sharing...
Knife Show Batch WIP
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tuskbuster
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jason , i just copied 1 of your designs for a guy down in keller .he had 1 of yours and lost it i guess.had to scale it off a pic he put up. hope it dont offend u ,it did me copying someone blade and design but it had to fit your sheath
You've likely heard that one about "if you give a man a fish." Well, if you give a knifemaker a long weekend, he'll end up with dirty hands and a pile of knives. I spent 7 or 8 hours in the shop Sunday, Monday, and today. I had a few knives heat treated already, and I also ground and heat treated three more. Finished up six knives and five sheaths for the three day stretch. The bolstered knife in the middle was in this WIP. The spalted burl is hackberry stabilized by Faron Moore. Some of these are 1084, some are D2, and one is CM154. All but one of these are headed to the Lone Star Knife Expo.
Faron Moore
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Amazing work, Jason. You'll do well at the Dallas show for certain.
tuskbuster
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heres that knife for the guy he said was a 1/4 in too long barely fit in the sheath
Here's a picture set about how to sharpen a bunch of knives at one time. If you're going to do a bunch, you need a system. I have these knives set out on an ironing board 
Each is set beside the sheath it goes with. They're all pointed the same direction. As I move one off the grinder at a stage, I flip it over. That way if I have to walk away, I know where I am in the process.
I use trizact belts on my grinder to cut the initial bevel. 160 for the first cut, then 400 before I go to the stones. If the light is right, you can see the burr form on each grit if you have it right.
After all of the knives have been done on the grinder up to 400, I move to the stones. I set them in my vise, so the hight is comfortable and the base is stable. I use 600 then 1000 stones, then strop. I also check the sharpness on my ankles or shoulders, so that my forearms aren't bald. Tricks of the trade
Each is set beside the sheath it goes with. They're all pointed the same direction. As I move one off the grinder at a stage, I flip it over. That way if I have to walk away, I know where I am in the process.
I use trizact belts on my grinder to cut the initial bevel. 160 for the first cut, then 400 before I go to the stones. If the light is right, you can see the burr form on each grit if you have it right.
After all of the knives have been done on the grinder up to 400, I move to the stones. I set them in my vise, so the hight is comfortable and the base is stable. I use 600 then 1000 stones, then strop. I also check the sharpness on my ankles or shoulders, so that my forearms aren't bald. Tricks of the trade