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I apologize that the last few posts have been snore-out-loud boring. Nothing I write about hand sanding can make it sound interesting or exciting... but it IS necessary. However, now we get to move on to... PHOTOS #61-65 ETCHING!!! Yay!!! First a quick shot of the "tools-of-the-trade"...

Thanks Laurence. It definitely separates hair from my forearm. I'm looking a bit patchy now.

I finished this one up on Friday night. We'll call it a Recurve Fighter. :3: This was meant to be a more fightery (that's a word right?) version of my PREVIOUS KNIFE. I went with a more ergonomic guard, and simplified the handle to allow for multiple grips. This was my first hidden-tang in...

This was the first knife show I attended... and it was definitely an eye-opener. I saw some fantastic work from a number of folks I wouldn't have expected... and conversely, I saw some surprisingly average work from a few big names. The room seemed fairly busy on Saturday... but everyone...

I saw this one in Seattle. One of my favorites of the show. Beautiful work. Erin

My apologies for not keeping on top of this thread. I had a little project that I wanted to finish up before the Seattle Knife Show this weekend... so I had to make shop time a priority over the past few days. PHOTO #55 Drawing back the temper of the tang. I apologize that I was unable...

Laurence... check out photo #46 in post #29. That's basically how I grind the raised clip. I have to tweak the angle of bubble-jig as I get closer to my scribed grind-lines to make sure everything meets up where it should. Erin

PHOTOS #48-50 There’s not a whole lot exciting about these next three photos… just some shots of the blade as I progress through the grits. If there’s one thing that I’d like to emphasize as you look at these photos, it’s the importance of wiping down the work-station and replacing the...

This it the part of the tale where our intrepid hero (me) begins the process of post-HT cleanup. Intrepid means Fearless... you know, just like Dodge wasn't afraid to put out a hyper-ugly sedan in 1993. PHOTO #41 We'll start with with this image of more {flat} disc grinder work on tip...

Hahaha! :thumbup:

This post gets to be dedicated to the rest of the HT process. To keep help things go smoothly, I came up with a little memory aid for heat treat (just now actually): T.T.S.T. (Remember it!) PHOTO #34 I’m always playing around with my HT, but am seldom forward-thinking enough to record the...

PHOTOS #30 (Three Versions) While running the normalizing cycles – all 19683 of them {think (3^3)^3… three is a very important number when it comes to heat treating steel} – I had some time to think about handle options. This is kind of a fun trick to help visualize your options. PHOTOS...

PHOTO #26 At this point I’m getting close to being ready to start the heat treat. Because I’m shooting for a hamon (differential HT) on this blade, there’s still one area that I need to address with some high-velocity abrasives… the false-edge. This photo shows where I have used my...

I’ve had all of these photos just sitting around collecting dust since last year... and because of this I thought it would be a simple task to turn them into a WIP. To tell the truth, remembering what was going on and accurately captioning the images is more than half the battle. Also...

PHOTOS #16 & #17 Fancy science people have shown that facial symmetry has a significant effect on the perceived attractiveness of humans. (Don’t believe me?... check Wikipedia. That’s where all the fancy science people hang out.) Of what importance is symmetry in regards to knifemaking...

These next three photos show the results of the distal tapering. PHOTO #10 First, for a little math… we take a look at the scales again. That’s 811g folks. If you’ll remember from yesterday, we started at 1031g… so we have a weight loss of 220g or 21%. If we were to put this in terms of...

Ouch!... Laurence... Ouch! :34: :3:

PHOTO #5 As I get older I have come to the realization that oftentimes in life, things do not always line up the way they should; sometimes your cheeseburger comes without cheese, sometimes the home-button on your newly refurbished iPhone is loose, and sometimes your steel arrives bent… all...

It's probably not fair to call this a Work In Progress (WIP) thread, as this knife was completed last year... but Lord knows I took enough pictures, so here we go. SKETCH My knives always start out as a pencil sketch… and my day job has me sitting at a desk for 10-hours stretches, providing...

Thanks Joel and NPD! I won't turn down kind words... even on a thread as old as this one. :3: Erin