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Very nice!!

On a roll!! \m/, (^_^) ,\m/

I love it!

A knife should be beautiful in is simplest, most modest form. No amount of embellishment can make up for a mediocre build.

If you're only planning on using it for makers mark and you have a 5K budget, I'd suggest looking into the best fiber laser you can get for your money. That will give you the best quality, deep mark. That said, I use a 10Watt diode laser that ran in the 800-900 range and I am happy with the...

Thank you opaul!

Customer posted picture of the first Delta Mini-Hunter in the wild.

Thank you!

Shipped this one out today! :) Blue linen micarta with vintage natural canvas micarta liners and copper flared tube. Natural micarta lanyard tube. W2 steel with floating Hamon.

That looks fantastic!! Perfectly alright if you want to keep it private but I'd love to learn how to do black flared tubes like those!! They are gorgeous!! Great work sir!

To my surprise, the marker (sharpie) worked remarkably well on one of these two. After touching the spot with the marker I quickly rubbed the spot with a paper towel to remove that excess ink that looks a different color and it did remove the excess. On the one sample where this worked, you can...

I'll try both (CA on one and black marker on the other) and see what happens. I've already given up on those handles so I have nothing to lose by trying. Going to laugh at myself pretty good if that's all it takes to fix it. Thanks guys!

This is the second time this happens to me and now I am wondering if this is a thing with double black canvas micarta. The first time with a 3/8" piece from retail vendor "A" and now with a 3/16" piece from retail vendor "B". I am not mentioning vendors because they sell knife supplies and did...

On mine I use 100% power, 170 speed and 2 passes. Q: Did you adjust the height of the laser unit before running it? (that's the first mistake I made when I started with mine)

Thank you very much everyone!

happy to help! personally i'd probably pass on the stiff bristle brush. If you have a shop-vac just run it over the edge. suck the dust out without messing with the sanded leather. Good luck!

I think the trick is to make sure that when you grind the edges you grind deep enough to defeat all those gaps the first time around. And then proceed with the rest of your burnishing process. But when they show up further down the line I do go back to the grinder with them. As a small leather...

I do a minimal grind pre-HT with a 36 grit ceramic. After HT I use an 80 grit ceramic to get 95% of the edge/bevel where I want it. Then, a good quality new 120 ceramic to finish the edge geometry to pretty much 99%. After that I run with the Trizact A65, A45 for that last bit to smooth out...

Just noticed that I never followed up on this one. To wrap things up, the outcome was great. I was able to build and deliver the knife to the customer who was very happy with it. Thank you all for the helpful comments!

I would say no. I have a 10Watt diode laser (Ortur Laser Master 3). Of course more power would be better. But my 10 watt laser cuts thick veg tanned leather and makes a fine maker's mark on my knife. If I were to want something else it would be a fiber laser. Those make a much deeper mark...