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Welcome aboard!

Nice...especially for a first knife. Much better than my first.

Do you mean Busse knives?

Excellent work. And welcome!

We'd all be banned

Ouchy! I've done that...though not that bad. Stay safe!

Very nice!

Sounds quite interesting. Yes.

Nice! That hamon on the top knife is outstanding!

I'm curious as I don't know, but won't the acetone take all of the natural oils out of the leather?

I wear reading glasses sometimes. I tried it one time with reading glasses and it was a bit tight but doable. Once I started working I hardly noticed it. YMMV. I think it's going to depend to some extent on your particular frames.

I have one of these and it's the most comfortable respirator I've ever used. For someone who needs or wants a full face respirator this is an excellent deal.

Gorgeous!

Great looking knife!

To narrow down your search some. Any book by Murray Carter. The "$50 dollar knife shop" has already been mentioned. A bit dated in my opinion, but it still has good information. "Knife Making Hacks" by Jason Fry is also a good one. Jason is also a member here on KnifeDogs. His book is on my...

Another beauty!

Here's the link for Larrin Thomas' book Knife Engineering on Amazon. It's quite useful, though if you are new to knife making it can be a bit demanding. If you do a search on Amazon for knife making you will find many titles. Also USAKnifemaker, who sponsors this website, has a number of books...

Thanks for the information opaul. I have a few ideas for leather handles also.

Is that Rocado Leather? I did a look up on rocadleather and it leads me to Rocado leather which is in Italy and shows only Cordovan leather and Horsefront?

Interesting idea. I might try that. Your results look good.