OPaul, excellent idea on the spring!! I am going to use that! I found that ACE hardware stores have a HUGE selection of springs from weak to stupidly strong. I was able to get springs there when I made my little Dremel Mill device to slot synthetic guard materials. Some of the springs I got I could barely compress.
What's going on in your shop?
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opaul
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Glad you like the idea. Simple and it works.
soundmind
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I really like the line that runs from the center of the handle into the scabbard and that it's the same thickness as the spine. Beautiful knife.
Looks comfortable, too. I like the feel of a knife with the handle bumped up a little higher than the spine.
Thanks! I used a piece of 1/8" natural canvas micarta as the spacer in both the handle and scabbard. I had to thin the scabbard piece down a bit so it was a tighter fit to get the magnets as close as possible to the blade for the best retention. That handle is very comfy, definetly using that shape a lot more going forward!
Randy Lucius
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Finished up a knife for my nephew. He’s a hog hunter and hunted them so much they nicknamed him “Swine”. Fine young man that I’m very proud of. 1084 steel with ivory snake handle. Red liners with silver pins. Laser engraved spine, sheath and name.
bladegrinder
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That’s a really nice looking knife right there and that spine engraving looks great. You better make sure your nephew is sitting down when you hand him that package.
Randy, you're sure getting good with that laser you got. I'm envious
Made a 3" EDC in CPM CruWear, Bone White Linen micarta, red liners, mosaics and laynard tube. Holster brown Raptor texture sheath:
Rehandled a 180mm Watanabe nakiri in stabilized spalted wood (customer supplied) with some blue camo micarta as the spacer. Redid the ferrule on the original chestnut handle too:
And started cursing my life! Working on 3 of the 8 Shechita in S90V, all post HT grinding. AO belts don't really do anything to hardened S90V I found out except kinda burnish it!
Used SunMax structured belts in A45, A30 and A16, but I can feel every deeper grit scratch when running my fingers over the blade:
Satin belt finish on the left as above. Right one is ground lengthwise on the contact wheel to 220 ceramic and it feels smoother between fingers than the left blade does. I tried some AO belts on the right hand one to see if I could get a satin finish and the steel just laughed at those belts. Burnished a little, but that was about it! Lots of SIC and finer grit ceramic belts (Norax and Trizact ceramics) ordered! Should have done the grinding pre HT, especially the 18"x2.5" wide ones!
Rehandled a 180mm Watanabe nakiri in stabilized spalted wood (customer supplied) with some blue camo micarta as the spacer. Redid the ferrule on the original chestnut handle too:
And started cursing my life! Working on 3 of the 8 Shechita in S90V, all post HT grinding. AO belts don't really do anything to hardened S90V I found out except kinda burnish it!
Used SunMax structured belts in A45, A30 and A16, but I can feel every deeper grit scratch when running my fingers over the blade:
Satin belt finish on the left as above. Right one is ground lengthwise on the contact wheel to 220 ceramic and it feels smoother between fingers than the left blade does. I tried some AO belts on the right hand one to see if I could get a satin finish and the steel just laughed at those belts. Burnished a little, but that was about it! Lots of SIC and finer grit ceramic belts (Norax and Trizact ceramics) ordered! Should have done the grinding pre HT, especially the 18"x2.5" wide ones!
Randy Lucius
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With turkey season coming up I made a knife for a turkey hunting cousin. Steel is 8670. Handle is Mississippi black walnut. Mosaic turkey pins with orange and white liners. Laser engraving.
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Jesse Latham
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A little over the top trailing point. .210 AEB-L, tang tapered to .040, stabilized spalted Madrone. Don't you hate it when tiny scratches pop up in a photo in a place (ricasso) where it's almost impossible to fix them?
Randy Lucius
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Finished this one up last night. Alabama Damascus and Ram's horn. Orange liners and brass pins.
Made a new Damascus etch tank.
Made a new Damascus etch tank.
CDHumiston
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I was quite happy with my last Bowie, so I'm stepping up to an even larger one. First I'm going to start work on a sub-hilt fighter.
Here are a few pictures of my last Bowie and an aluminum mockup of my new one. Also a pick of the sub-hilt I started today.
Here are a few pictures of my last Bowie and an aluminum mockup of my new one. Also a pick of the sub-hilt I started today.