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Thanks Keith, I'll poke around in the medicine cabinet and see if we have any baby oil that I can try out.

Not sure if this will help anything, but I thought I would throw up a couple of quick and dirty pics and dimensions, since that was asked about before. I'm not able to capture the remaining finish flaws in my crummy photos. It looks good from a couple of feet away, but under direct light with...

Thanks for the suggestions, Nick. I don't drink much either, but this might push me into it! I should probably order some Black Ice, I use Gator grit silicon carbide wet/dry paper from ACE hardware which I've been led to believe is good but maybe not, or maybe not as good as it could be. A...

Thanks Nathan, sounds not too much different from your Ironwood recipe (from my recollection.) Hopefully I can get similar results when I get around to using mine!

Nathan, would you be willing to share your 'recipe' for finishing that redwood? It really looks great and I'd like to try to achieve some similar results when I get around to using mine.

Alistair, I used to do quite a bit of hand sanding before HT and it ended up being wasted effort in my mind because once I got all of the HT scale and junk off the blade I was back to deeper grinder scratches again. This particular blade was ground 90% or so before HT at a 120x belt finish...

Wow, I'm so jealous! I have been grinding up to 600x equivalent on a Trizact Gator, but like I said above I almost always have to back all the way up to 220x by hand to get the deep hidden scratches out from the grinder (probably 60x ones that seem to be gone.) I wonder what I'm doing wrong...

Thanks for everyone's input! mike, I have used WD-40, Windex, cutting fluid, and Mobil-1 in the past. On this knife, I used Mobil-1 until I got up to around 400x (or 600x?) and at that point it seemed like it wasn't cutting as well and was leaving a 'dirtier' finish, so I started trying Windex...

Bill, I've only worked so far with O-1 and 5160. I think 3 of them have been 5160 (including this one I'm currently struggling with) with the rest being O-1. I went to 600x on the grinder, but I'm not sure why I bother as I always seem to have to back up to 220x by hand to get all of the...

Looks great Nathan! Is that the '40's extra-hard redwood from Burl Source? I have some that I bought from Mark a while back, and this makes me excited to put it to use.

When I want dark epoxy I use the Shafting Epoxy from Golfsmith. It's black (or pretty close to it) as it comes from the store, and it faired pretty well in the infamous Glue Wars shootout.

Hi all, How long does it typically take you all to hand rub a blade to say 1000 or 1500x? I'm a newer maker with maybe 9 completed knives under my belt now. I really struggled with hand sanding my first few (taking 10-20 hours per knife and getting less than perfect results when I was...

Thanks again, John. I'm still not 100% sure if I'm following you as I'm having trouble understanding how that might work, so I may just give it a try to understand.

Jeff, do you have any info on what kind of disc you have and how you mounted it? I've really been wanting a disk recently, but I can't afford a full stand-alone unit at the moment. I recently saw the Coote disc attachment, and I wondered if it would install onto my KMG wheel and work as it...

Thanks for your response, John! So are you saying that you drill the bolsters before tapering the tang, then after tapering (when the holes will no longer line up in the bolsters), just smashing them good with a hammer will realign/flatten everything together? If I understand you correctly...

No, that is someone else (I live in Phoenix and have never been to WA.) I would love to be able to meet Nick someday though; I spoke with him on the telephone once, and he was very cool and helpful to me!

Beautiful knife Erin,and thanks for posting the WIP. I'm envious of your obvious talent!

DLBrothers, Yes, my question is if you taper to the front of the scales but the back of the bolsters, how do you get that angle to match at the bolster/scale mating surface (I suppose whether you dovetail or not.) If I understand your reply, it sounds like you match them first as if they were...

Frank, great job on the knife! The damascus and ironwood are both beautiful. I used to slack about wearing my respirator on occasion, but sometimes I would get a cough or weird feeling in my chest or throat in return. It's not worth it to be lazy, particularly with materials like Ironwood...

Yes, I think I understand what you are saying now. Thanks!