What's going on in your shop?

[Bruce McLeish]

actual, real live temps. was 118 at 1300 today and the hottest time of day is still 2 +/- hours away. wanna come play in some California sun?

 

[Marty]

Those high temps are actual temperature? Not heat index?

Actual temp its crazy hot

 

[billyO]

actual temperature?

113 currently. I'm interested to see how good 90 is going to feel on Wednesday. I'm currently thinking it might even be cool enough to fire up the forge. Ummm....nevermind

 

[BossDog]

some of you guys need to up your FAIL game.
Take it from a professional, failing is not as bad as you have been told.

 

[KenH]

Yep Boss - that shows why R&D costs so much money, and that's just the material not including the time involved.

 

[Smallshop]

some of you guys need to up your FAIL game.
Take it from a professional, failing is not as bad as you have been told.

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Boss nailed it....

 

[Bruce McLeish]

I don't see it as failing . I prefer to see it as a slow learning process.

 

[fitzo]

Making a mistake the first time is an opportunity to learn, the second time, a reinforcement. Make the same mistake repeatedly, though, and people whisper.

 

[fitzo]

A lava lamp, Tracy?? Grooovy...

 

[Bruce McLeish]

Making a mistake the first time is an opportunity to learn, the second time, a reinforcement. Make the same mistake repeatedly, though, and people whisper.

I'm NOT paranoid....people ARE whispering.
The voices told me so.

 

[Bruce McLeish]

A lava lamp, Tracy?? Grooovy...

Sets a kinda mood. Just look at your mood ring. Smoke, anyone?

 

[KenH]

OK, I finally broke down and ordered 2 gallon of Parks 50 from USAKnifemakers. In the past I never did much with carbon steel so I used canola oil as quench liquid. Since I've started working with Damascus 'n San Mai more I decided I needed the proper quench oil. USAKnifemakers really came thru - ordered late last week and delivered today. Shipped same day and UPS got it here pretty quick. Here's a dagger I'm working on. Lighting really bad causing shadows on the etch.

 

[scherf68]

I finished neck knife in 1084 and g10.

 

[thomster]

Nice work, guy! I love building my own tools too.

Here's a crumby photo of what's on my bench at the moment. I'm making this one for my son who just earned his eagle scout award to commemorate the occasion. I got the blade ground last night, but didn't get any pics. Still a little ways to go, but it's coming along.

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Really nice looking knife! As a scouting guy, congratulations to your son for his hard work achieving the Eagle rank!

 

[Randy Lucius]

A different style of knife for me. Plan on doing my first stonewashed finish and some blue lava scales from Pop's.

 

[Bruce McLeish]

very different for you. can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[bladegrinder]

Those blue lave scales look nice, is that some sort of acrylic?

 

[J. Doyle]

Yesterday I made a Damascus thumb stud for a folder I'm working on:



And I mounted my bench vise to an old drill press base/column so now my vise is adjustable height and has compound swivel capability:

 

[Randy Lucius]

Those blue lave scales look nice, is that some sort of acrylic?

Micarta

 

[Bruce McLeish]

Yesterday I made a Damascus thumb stud for a folder I'm working on:



And I mounted my bench vise to an old drill press base/column so now my vise is adjustable height and has compound swivel capability:

I hereby take back everything i said about you (joke , don't ya know !) That is being one smart dude, dude. I'm lovin it.