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Laurence Thanks for taking the time to draw that out for me.... I am stuck with a thinner longer looking blade shape tho. I think mainly its because the damascus is only 1.75" and with the curve on the top of the spine its hard to make it look right. I am going to try and go with a blade...

Well I am having trouble trying to draw a curved spine for an upswept persian style blade.... :sad: Here's a pic of a blade shape that I really like..... Maker is Jake Powning, and his work is amazing. All that carving and intricate details..........beautiful.

Ron lets pretend its sitting on your work bench................. now what would you make ?? :biggrin:

Brad I think a bowie might work.... what kind of bowie design were you thinking? I would like to end up with a single blade in the end. Thanks Larry

Laurence So google led me to something like this for "cemimeter knife" ----> Is this kind of what you were thinking? Thats pretty cool lookin...

W w y m (What would you make) What would you make? Here are the materials. (1) slab of damascus (1095 / 15n20 about 156 layers) Length = 15" height = 1.75" and thickness = just under .25" (1) block of stabilized masur birch with wicked figuring. So the question is ....with those...

Awesome ............ I want one.

Taz I would square up those blocks before you send them to Mike, unless you have a reason for leaving them rough like that. All that extra material will not get used in most scenarios, but you will have to pay for it to be stabilized. IMO the ideal size is 1 x 2 x 5 give or take .25 here or...

HAHAHAHAHA..........:lol: Well I dunno about that. Little lucky, me thinks.

When you sand them flat do it by hand at the end, with some sandpaper taped to some granite or perfectly flat ceramic tile, etc. When you think its flat hold the scales together flat side to flat side up against a bright shop light.........theres should be no gaps. If you can see light then...

Are your scales truly flat before you glue them up? They should be FLAT..... no gaps whatsoever.

Archer you're stuff, that you sent me was awesome...... My wife started thinking jewelry box out of exotic wood..... anyways pretty cool. Thanks again - Larry

Yep spalted maple.........little orange and little curl. Its all good :biggrin:

Someone is going to be very happy, very soon, some are still crusty from being stabilized...............:biggrin:

Ray You probably saw some reconstituted stone..........available in a lot of the supply houses. "Reconstituted Stone : a handle material that is a mixture of a powdered gemstone and polyester, polyethylene, or acrylic. It is also known as stabilized stone. The reconstituted forms of...

Keith I always wonder if it one of those games that people will lose interest in favor of things like video games. Lots of pool halls and places have closed around here. Some of them were nice even !!! L

I know what you mean Doug, some of those places kinda SKETCHY..... I don't have my cues back from the makers yet. Dang custom makers take too long...hahahaha

No Knife Dogs shoot pool ????

We played in a tournament a couple of weekends ago. I cannot believe how tired I was after that Sunday. 30 hours of pool that weekend ......... Here's a pic of the first floor in the morning.....can't see all the tables, but there must've been 150 tables there and upstairs. People from all...

\ Martin with this type of wood they refer to the grain pattern as "landscaped"....you can see a good example of that in the pictures of your end grain above where the sections look like they are overlapping. It's beautiful wood, one of my favorites.....Larry