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Like the sharp and simple color contrast. How durable/long lasting is the finish? Looks dang good man.

Ed loves D2 for blades as we can tell. Lol I can vouch for the edge being jagged and stays for a long time from playing make KSO out of D2 planer blades. As far as 52100 goes I have yet to finish the blades I have in the works.

Just awe striking contrast throughout the whole knife.

Sadly the camera does not pick up the depth shimmer in the scales.

400 grit check to see how it will look. Post 2k grit with first coat of true oil. After 12hrs to cure and second coat The blue felt liner turned out better than expected.

Here is the start of the fun of hand sanding from 220 on up.

No problem, glad to help.

You also can use the old shoes to make novelty knives and letter openers. Any one who says "Old horse shoes that were in the muddy poopy pasture are gross" remind them that most germs/bacteria die at 160° and a knife is taken to 1400 + ° to harden. If a germ/bacteria survives that then we all...

Post glue up fun with felt liners, she likes blues an purples so I made one for each side then split in half and did blue top and purple bottom. I figured since the top and bottom are the same radius they should balance out and they did. A lil tip I was given and use is to apply some C A glue to...

Ok, I have been using mineral oil for sanding and it is doing a great job of creating a slurry, it appears to wipe off ok w a little acetone help. Am going to get some windex this week since I have another blade to hand sand friday.

So working with stacked leather is similar to burnishing leather, go the opposite direction of the belts travel? I did one rehandle on an old Camillus bird an trout with a stacked leather handle and managed to match it up to the original profile but the cutting of the center hole was tedious...

Thats a beauty of a blade. My infamous oops is setting my sanding block on the blade and it scuffs crosswise when Im samding straight. The windex tip I did not know about.

That is a beauty of a blade. The brass and stainless give a nice color transition to the blade from the handle. I may have to make one similar color scheme to clean up my leather scrap bin. I'm with Mr Wilson, any suggestions?

Is kind of hard to see much other than it is a damascus knife blade, bolsters with some file work all the way along the spine. The obvious seperations of a production knife of the steel and stainless pins that are mismatched to the area of the bolster they are in. The line for the brass and...

Those are going to be well appreciated gifts. Looking good man.

Beautiful, am liking how even the grain has character.

Upcycle old formula containers,french fried onion containers, or any sealable container that fits in you sanding area for strips of sand paper. Shoe box totes to hold handle blocks and scales also

Your welcome Bill, I couldn't fit all the samples to share. Lol It seems there is always an abundance of good will gestures all year long on the forum so It was my turn and shared what I had.

Here is the finished retro replacement of a knife my buddies dad had stolen in may this year when his house was broken into. Was given the colors of the spacers, the handle material, rough dimensions, and guard shape to try to replicate it and make it look like a 19 yo made it so there was...

Here is your tracking numbder BILL, MERRY CHRISTMAS. there is a few things you havent worked with yet Im sure.