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Yes I agree... I enlarged an existing bolster hole from 1/8 to 1/4 and should have lengthened it more to give me a bit more material to work with.

I mentioned at work that I was going to give knives for Christmas this year and I've been working toward that by getting tools, equipment and supplies that I would need to begin with handles and eventually knifemaking. So a co-worker decides that knives sounds like a cool Christmas gift and...

For the past year + I had an idea to make a few hunting knives for family for Christmas. Nothing too extravagant I would buy the blanks and put a nice handle on it an Viola!. So fast forward about a year to May this year. I had 2 benchtop drill presses and one was a bit newer and nicer than...

It's a easily customized design. I'm also looking at making a simple hinged base to tip straight back and put the blade vertical and currently designing a swivel base that could be incorporated if someone didn't want the PanaVise base option.

OK so the details are: The base is 4"x6" with the 2 round tubes at 5" the rectangular tube is 8.75 and the cut for the cross knife jaw is 3" deep by 3/8" 1/2 bolts with in Davids case RR spikes cut off for the Tees. Could be 1/2" or 5/8" or even bent bolts as in my other design with the...

Well it's been over 2 years since I last welded anything. So it isn't the prettiest but it is functional. It was a combination of 2 or 3 different vises I saw and kinda melded the different ideas.

WOW! I'm new to knife making but that's just... WOW

David Roeder didn't necessarily recruit me but I sold him a drill press and was planning on building knives in the near future (as Christmas presents for family) and I searched for his knives/posts and found them here and joined. I put his name in my registration application since he had offered...