Recent content by Shane Justice

Hello Everybody! I do not often post because I do not posess the stamina a to maintain a running conversation. I was honored to take the Introduction to Bladesmithing class at the ABS School, Washington,Arkansas from MS OCHS. (It was co-taught by Jim Batson ) Both of those men are vastly...

Hello all you KNIFE DOGS! It has been a long time since I posted anything knife related. Since I struggle to do anything in the shop, there is almost nothing I can contribute that anybody would like to hear. Having said that I do have a lot of good peaople on this forum who mean a great...

Guys, I am SO SORRY for not staying up with this thread. I have been having some more health problems that made it near impossible to type or any other fine motor skills. (ENUF said about that. NOBODY wants to hear about it.) If I had been thinking while I was at the forge, I would have forged...

OK. I got it, Shims and prayers with a deep center punch. I should be able to pull that off cleanly. Sticks, I could go that route. I will take a look at the area and see if I have the right shape. Thanks guys! SHane

This is my first time to actually post a question for how-to advice. Not because I know everything, but because I rarely build full tang knives. This one sort of grew that way as I was forging it. As it sometimes goes the tang has a slight taper to it when all was done. The problem is...

YUP! ERNIE is THE BEST! He spent two years (off and on) helping me figure my stencil out. We must haveworked on 8 or 9 ideas. BUt it wouldn't come to gether. FInally, when I got my act together...Ernie was there to make the stencil. Go to Ernie and breathe easy. GO BLUE LIGHTNING!

GUys, I am not a BALI guy either. But when I was a kid, I spent my Winters feeding cattle. For anybody, who does not knopw what this is like, you climb on top of a 5 tall stack og hay bales in the back of a pick up truck, and then drive over a single lane goat path to find cattle hell and...

Hey man, that Swarengen guy (Ian McShane scares me...

Well dang, Craig! You are proof that KNIFE DOGS does get the best people! Thank you for the welcome! Shane

Just a heads up. I shot them an email too. They said the digital whiz bangs run another $250. Which doesnt seem too bad a deal....considering the alternatives which means BIG $$$$

Fellas i looked at the Sugar Creek site but did not see any options that said DIGITAL controller. Is this a DIY add-on?

Hey Pieter, I learned about hawg hunting way back in the nearly 1980's when Larry Harley was in the Wall Street Journal....talking aobut the sport and his knives. Like all of us when we see other people doing "extreme" stuff, I wondered if I had the hmmm...(tryiing to remeber family...

Dear Pieter, As a young man I di a lot of hunting with a bow. As with most impatient young men I was not patieny enough to build the necessary skills. Growing up here in Wyoming, hunting was a way to make sure there was food through the winter. A few years ago I went to South Carolina...

Hey Pieter! For a lot of us, Winter is a great time to crawl inside the shop, lock the doors, and not come out 'til Spring. In my yard next to my shop, we have two BIG crab apple trees. At wnight, we have as many as 20 mule deer cleaing up the apples from the lawn. Later this Fall, we...

OK. Ceramic platen liner is the way I will go. ONe of the things that I did not pay attention to several years ago was checking all of my surfaces for straighness. AND the other thing I did not look at was which parts were crowned, and which ones needed to be. As a new guy I spent a lot of...