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Real nice Steve, love the handle and the Damascus reminds of watching a lightening storm!!

Mike my first impression of this thread shows we only read some of what is before us. I haven't even been in the shop since the wife has been sick but even then I rarely do batches of knives!!! I read your post and as I clicked out of this thread it hit me. Did he say he was grinding 72...

Von Gruff I see a fantastic opportunity for one fine WIP!! Waiting to see this one!! The two tier box may open some challenges but it will definitely be unique!! Carry on man, I am waiting to see this one come to life!!

Real nice Ken! What Mama wants, Mama gets, in turn you get a happy wife which leads to you having a happy life!!:p So got to ask what is a Wa type handle??? Would that be anything like hidden/partial tang?? Or is that a reference to a Japanese style handle? I don't follow all the Japanese...

Steve, up there they have a high enough water table to hit drinkable water at short distances! Even up here in NW Florida you have to go near 200+ ft. deep and all wells have to be cased. That is, unless you know the right fellar and have cash!! :eek::p How deep is the well?? You may have...

Thanks springer82. Something tells me it may be the depth thing. You may have shot thru the level of the water! That is just speculation. Don't know enough about it. Was the well pulling any water at the depth it was at before you replaced the head??

The last time I put down a sand point I was just a kid, in Nebraska! We pulled an old well head that had been down about 40 yrs. My dad told me him and his brother used to pull them with bars and a chain. We pulled with chain and bar and barely moved it. We put a 5 ton hydraulic jack on it and...

Appreciate that Ken! As well as from the rest of you guys! This being the weekend she don't have treatment on the weekend, gives her time to rest. Gives me too much time for my mind to work!

My wife has completed her first full week of radiation everyday and a chemo treatment each week! I have been exposed to cancer pretty much all my life! I have lost friends, family, relative's and loved ones! But it is somehow different when they tell your spouse, they have cancer! It seems the...

I have said for years, you can legislate all the rights afforded to us here in the United States under the 2nd amendment!! However you can not legislate away crazy or evil!! Blunting the tip of a knife does not mean you can't be slashed or cut with it!! If you can not live with the one you...

Ain't nothing to do but, be honest with the student! I had to be the bearer of bad news but, you got took, whether the maker of this straight razor intended it that way or he just don't really know better, any steel that won't harden, will not hold and edge! Then explain to them the "why" and...

Ed, that is about as much fun as sending one of the newbies for a blue handled board stretcher. That is the first good laugh I have had in a while!!

Kevin, I haven't been on much lately busy, with family issues! You have come a long ways. This is going to be a good one I can see that! You have become a grind aficionado! By the time I get back in the shop I will have to re-learn grinding all over again!!

Chris, this from what I can see!!! In that post in the video when he draws the tool, only the bit is touching and the wood handle touches. The bit will only cut a little depth at a time but with each pass it would cut deeper!!! About 2/3rds of the way down the first page there is another on made...

Here is a informative link to another site. It is all about building a fullering tool! https://www.bladesmithsforum.com/index.php?/topic/9070-grooverfullering-cutting-tool/ I have been kicking around a different version of this one in the thread. Do I think it will work. Well there is not but...

Thank you everyone for the prayers and good thoughts. The real battle starts Monday. She finished the last dry run today! She will do radiation everyday of the week. That takes about 10 minutes when they get her on the table. Then chemo, that can take up to 4-6 hrs. depending on if they need...

Holy moley, those are beauts. I like the second one better with the stabilized maple burl scales the best. It is hard to decide though!! Top shelf work!! top shelf work ~ you know, where you put the good stuff!!!

They put the wife multi-port in today. They will start chemo and radiation next week probably!! This is getting to be too real!! Please continue to pray for her!

Daniel, looking good! Please don't take this wrong! On your next handle the flat at the top and bottom reduce it to near nothing. In other words roll it down to 1/16" or less. It will make the handle look less blocky. Also where the handle meets the ricasso taper it some. There again it...

Dang, Steve that could have been so much worse but that looks like it hurts like, H E double hockey sticks!!! I saw a fellow up the road from me get cut from a bow saw, kickback. The operator was the father, (he was is his 60's) and when it kicked back he kept it clear of himself by letting...