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Nice work Hoggie! BTW, the Orr Felt Co. was based in Piqua, Ohio. I grew up 12 miles from there, and my dad grew up down the street from the company. They made, among other things, wool blankets, many of which were GI blankets during WWII.

Amish here in Ohio do use modern technologies. They find loopholes where they can. Ever see a Caterpillar tractor with the rubber tracks replaced with metal wheels?

Oops! Sorry man, my bad. I couldn't tell from the pics. :o

Purple heart for Purple martins! :D

O1 is almost as expensive as 440C from some places.

I had no idea those were yours. They had those on display at the Archery Trade Association Show a couple of weeks ago.

Craig, I'm glad the package made it to you okay. Enjoy! Nathan

Ernie, Looking good, man! Now that the handles are pinned, clamped, and gluing up, you've reached what one of my college prof's referred to as a "learning opportunity." In this case, the lesson is that it's much easier to finish the front of your knife scales before you attach them to...

Sharpness is relative to what the tool was designed for. I can file my double bit axe until it is "sharp" and will make the wood chips fly. But I can't shave with it.

For the longest time I had been using some 1x42 AO belts I got off ebay. They were cheap--15 cents each--and they worked well enough. I finally got around to using some ceramic belts from supergrit.com, and they are so much better. Grinds are more even, the cutting is more aggressive.

This is the only knife forum I'm on that automatically kicks me off. And, the "Remember Me" button that you check does not seem to work.

SHHH! He had to get a motor from somewhere!!! :D

There's combinations that haven't even been discussed. Like the hidden tang with mortised handles. It's a hidden tang, but the handle is in 2 halves, like on a full tang knife. Each side is recessed (mortised) to fit the hidden tang. The 2 halves are epoxied with a pin going through the...

Ernie, My box ships tomorrow. Thanks for running this MITH, great idea! Nathan

Ernie, My box will ship out tomorrow. I received a very nice (and very packed) box of goodies from Mark Behnke. Thanks man! Mark noticed that I like the rustic Scagel style, so he sent me some of Aldo's 1084, some brass bar stock, a variety of pin stock, and a nice section of antler...

The forum still kicks me off after a few minutes. If I open a link to another page or open a photo that opens in a new window, I have to log into that window to view it.

If you are doing a partial tang (does not go all the way through to the back of the handle), then you can install a pin that goes through the handle and tang. You can see the brass pin I installed in the antler crown on this knife:

TKS will heat treat air hardening steels. What steel are you working with?

I saw a picture online a long while back where someone set up their Coote so that it essentially laid on its back. The contact wheel was at the front and accessible, and any flat /slack belt grinding was done horizontally. My guess, though, was that the person did mostly hollow grinds.

I've used in on a variety of unstabilized materials--wood and antler--with good success. Treat your knife scales as you would a gun stock. Finish your wood to 400 grit. Apply in thin coats, allow for a day to dry, card with 0000 steel wool, then apply the next coat. Keep your blade taped...