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I was shown this paracord wrap. You remove the white inner cords and as you wrap it, give it a twist on each side. Maybe do a flat wrap of paracord under, then do another layer with different paracord with the guts removed with the twist as the overwrap? A little of the tang shows through...

Or your second, or third if you don't learn the first few times! I try to make sure I drill holes so if it does helicopter, I get hit with the spine and not the edge. I also know to go slower and when I hear the metal sound change pitch when it's close to breaking through, I am really careful...

Had the last 2 weeks off from work, so I got lots of stuff done! 80CRV2 7" camp knife: 4" Magnacut with Black/OD Green G10 burl Red AmeraGrip on a 4" Magnacut drop point: 2.75" edge S90V warncliff: 3.25" CruWear with Orange AmeraGrip handles: Nitro V Drop Blood Knives. Double edge...

No way! Ground to about .04" thick at the edge before HT. Spent another 3 hours or so post HT grinding. I took them up to a 16 micron belt and 1000 SIC belts, but didnt spend as much time at each belt, so they arent as shiny as the 5" ones I did. The blades are pretty flexy, more so than the...

Sharpened these up today, hoping to ship tomorrow! 3/32" thick S90V, blades are 18" x 2.5" wide, just over 23" OAL. 240mm Tanaka R2 damascus gyuto next to them for a size comparison.

Do you have any welding skills or know someone who can weld? Housemade.us has various kits/packages to build your own grinder and they get rave reviews.

Do you have any knifemakers local to you that you can visit and try out their setups? You may find some features others insist on don't mean much to you. I run an Ameribrade. That uses 2" tool arm bars, but I don't have all that many accessories. I have their combo platen with 2 and 6"...

Duh, thanks Ken! Never even thought of that...LOL. I want to weld some angle iron legs on and get rid of the wood legs too.

I was early at around 17/18 years old when I started in 1998! I think I have that first one at my parents house somewhere. I did a few kits before that, but a machinist friend gave me a piece of O-1, 1/4" thick and around 2" wide. I used a Drill press, hacksaw and files to profile it, and...

I made my own table for mine, but it's a pain to undo the table to swap blades because the saw is held to the table by the screws. The HF version looks like it supports the saw itself, so the table will be easier to take on and off. It looks like it will work well to cut tube and angle as well...

Welcome!! I recognized the name from back when I got into knives in the late 1990's/early 2000's!

Oops, forgot to post a couple again! 4" Magnacut drop point with orange AmeraGrip handle scales with thick, vintage natural micarta liners. Customer has big hands, so I made the handle a bit chonkier for his hands! I did a different method for the jimping on this one. I used a side...

That looks pretty nice with the table! I may try to get one for my birthday.

I've seen excellent production knives at a good price and horrible, expensive custom/hand forged knives that were garbage. Hand Forged/Custom made does not always equal quality and now, there are many knives "hand forged" that are mass produced turds and resold online by tons of people who...

I got some from Etsy a month or so ago from Official Yeti Forge, but haven't used it yet. They had multiple sizes and I got 5, 10" pieces of 1.5" diameter. I also picked up 3 pieces of 1 1/4" and used 2 of the 3 so far from High Temp Tools. I do it by hand only, but I got a 1/4" thick, 7"...

Yeah, 110v on the YesWelder sucks, but it also does 220v as well and works much better. I just have no clue how to weld properly! I am getting better with TIG, but still struggle with stick welding. I would go for a 3 in 1 machine that has MIG capability in case you hate stick welding as...

Yeah, but welding work sticks and molds with mig dont matter. I would still use tig w/o filler for damascus billets. Mig is much easier for me than stick is.

Spent $33 on Amazon for 2, Vintaj brand 8oz ball peen hammers and 2, 3/8" carbide balls. The heads were noted as being pretty soft in the reviews, which is why I went with them. Their quality is poor, but for a straightening hammer, it doesn't matter! About 5 minutes to drill the holes with a...

I picked up a YesWelder Tig 205DS last summer. I run stick and TIG. I use the TIG (no filler rod) to weld up quarters for Mokume and to seal billets (weld all of the layers of the billet so air can't get in) and the Stick for more structure type welding, ie welding work sticks on to billets...

Got these finished up for Current Composites! Blue AmeraGrip and Pink AmeraGrip! Fillet knife is AEB-L, small blue handled one is also AEB-L and the pink handle one is S35VN.