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The cold is what we have as we are mid winter but mild cold to some with daytime temps in the 40-50 range in general with occasional drops down into the 15-20 degree overnight. Summer is very rare over the 90,s with general (low humidity) temps in the high 70,s to mid 80's

Old school hinge fitting using butt and marking guages to mark in depths and a sharp chisel to cut it out. Next is some locks to cut in then I can put the finish oils on the wood. Still lots to do yet on the boxes with fitting the felt lining getting makers mark done and pinning tags in place...

Love the Maple you have and the combination of materials you have selected is going to make a very nice knife (almost) regardless of its design

The knives the sheaths were hot waaxed this morning for. Pig sticker with fiddle back eucalyptus, Hunter Skinner and Light Hunter with Accacia in the first pic and a pair of Field scalpels with Buffalo horn in the second

One thing to keep in mind when doing the hot waxing is that the sheath needs to have a drain hole in the bottom and to do this I leave the welt back a 1/4 inch from the end of the sheath. The wax is straight parriffin wax and heated to 230 - 240F with the sheaths in the oven at 100F to pre-heat...

leatherwork just needs hot waxing now. The customer for the chef knife is still to decide on the handle

A great deal of time in some of the things I have tried and had to do over for one reason or the other but I guess you know all about that with your semi production efforts Ted. In the end I think it will be worth the lost time, but even so, I have really enjoyed the challlenge of working...

Another piece of equipment I needed to make was for something to accurately form the discs to the shape of the knife handle and the 1911 grips so after a coulpe of atempts I came up with this.

Some progress amongst the setbacks. The box inserts I had made were going to make it difficut to do the felt linings so I had to make another set and another jig to cut the 1911 grip and mag butt end out as it needs the full depth of both the main 9mm primary insert as well as the 6mm lower...

Frame handled allows for one piece guard as oposed to pinned on bolsters and still have the full tang look

Length of blade and depth of recurve will have an effect on the ease or otherwise of the grind.

Giday and welcome to KD Nick.

that is a good looking sheath and the stamping is one of those "finishing" touches that shows the profesionalism your knives have bought to the table.

Giday and welcome to KD Dick. Looking forward to seeing some of your knives. I reckon you must have about worked through all the knifemaking bugbears by now

Giday and welcome to the KD forums (and the addiction) Redbaird.

Had a good day in the shed today with the boxes all assembled and in the camps for the night. Then I made a start on the 1911 grips. I cut the knife handes and the grips at the same time from the same blocks to keep them as simiar as possibe A set each of ebony, walnut and curly macrocarpa. I...

am I seeing what I think is an uneven plunge line terminating at the spine deeper on the left side than the right. In any case it is aways more visually pleasing not to have the plunge cut through the spine.