Allergies, shop time, how to cope, plus...I OD'd!! Olive Drab content

jonnymac44

jonnymac44

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Well, the last week and a half has been miserable. The allergy season hit hard and I seem to have it worse than ever before. Allegra and sudafed haven't helped much. It's made trying to work in the shop a real chore. Tough to see through my glasses or shield with itchy watery eyes. Tough to wear the respirator with snot running down into it constantly and having to sneeze inside of it:barf: I felt kind of silly, but I needed to get some work done, so I shoved a half of a kleenex up each nostril, put some visine allergy relief in my eyes and went to town. How do you guys deal with this time of year!?!? It didn't help that I was working on handles today!! Even with my jerry rigged methods of dealing with the allergies in the shop I made some decent progress.

Got some orders I'm trying to finish with OD handles. The Mini Drop point is micarta with red G-10 liners and the wharnie is Chuck's two tone OD G-10 from Alpha. The more I use this two tone OD from Chuck the more I like it. Really great look to the grain. Neither of these blades are finished, and both were wiped with tuf glide to bring out some color. I need to do a few more grits on each but they're getting there. I think I like the OD G-10 so much I might just save the micarta for customer requests.

Thanks for looking!

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Tait said:
Nice work - the micarta is shiny: how are you finishing it?
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The knife isn't done, it's only been hand sanded to 180 grit so far. I just wiped it down with a tuf cloth to brighten it up for the pics and bring out some grain of the canvas. This one is only going to be done to about 600 grit wet sanded by hand and no buffing. The customer wanted it to be on the dull side.
 
Have you tried one of those positive pressure full masks? They're fairly reasonable now.

Knives look sweet.
 
Great work Jon,

Chuck's two-tone looks really good. I would be interested to know if you find that the micarta is grippier than the G10 when wet. Talk to you soon.

Erik
 
Erik, I think the micarta is a touch grippier, but not too much. Texturing would change everything, but I find that a 400-600 grit hand finish without buffing makes for a good work knife that has pretty good purchase. Every once in a while I'll wipe the handle down with either Tuf Glide or Renaissance wax to bring the color out.
 
Great Work Johnny :) The canvas looks great! If your having pollen allergies, May I offer a cure. Go to your local farmers market, and purchase some LOCALLY made honey. (with in your tri/quad county area if possible) Honey has all the local pollens in it, and eating it gives the body a way to positivly acclimate to it. so it doesnt send your immune system into war. just eat a tablespoon full of it 2x a day till it's gone. no more pollen allergies and yes It really is that simple and elegant (not to mention good tasting) of a cure for allergies.

Jason
 
JasonSCarter said:
Great Work Johnny :) The canvas looks great! If your having pollen allergies, May I offer a cure. Go to your local farmers market, and purchase some LOCALLY made honey. (with in your tri/quad county area if possible) Honey has all the local pollens in it, and eating it gives the body a way to positivly acclimate to it. so it doesnt send your immune system into war. just eat a tablespoon full of it 2x a day till it's gone. no more pollen allergies and yes It really is that simple and elegant (not to mention good tasting) of a cure for allergies.

Jason
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Jason, thanks for the compliment!

As far as the local grown honey goes, I am aware of that remedy and have looked without luck for some local honey. You said within my tri-county area, I have been looking much more locally than that. I thought I needed to find honey from closer to my home. I'm going to give the honey a try, thanks!
 
Love them! Especially like the wharncliffe... dont know why but it's just awesome.

Have you flared the stainless tubing on the drop-point? Kinda hard to tell from the pics... would love to do that to one of my knives instead of just straight pins.

I too am starting to experience this wonderful allergy season... hopefully my allegra will start working soon!!! But I've never heard of this honey remedy... I will give it a try, even if it doesn't work it will sure be yummy trying!
 
jonnymac44 said:
How do you guys deal with this time of year!?!?
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I suffer from a serious betula/grass allergy. Been getting corticosteriod injections the past couple of seasons. This season i was going to get a vaccination, but the docs decided to try to up my medication one last time to see if it would help, as theyd rather avoid the vaccination (it can have some REAL nasty sideeffects.)

The following helped against the betula...grass hasnt kicked it yet.

Telfast 180 mg for the allergy in general. 1-2 pills a day.
Avamys 27 microgram for the nose. 1-2 blows per day.
Opatanol 1 mg for the eyes. 1-3 drops per day.

You might find them under some other brand-names, but your phamarcist can look it up. Hope i could help.
 
Nice looking knives. I'm going to have to buy liner material myself. :D

Plus one on the honey.

My witchdoctor almost completely cured my allergies. I couldn't leave the house for YEARS unless I had a pocketful of kleenex. I almost drowned once in the dentists chair when my allergies flared up. :rolleyes: Honestly....

So, while my Dr is an MD, he takes a holistic approach to medicine and is a homeopathic Dr as well. My allergies were treated with a homeopathic remedy. I feel like a totally new person now in the spring/summer. It was not a specific allergy remedy, but a constitutional remedy based on my body as a whole.

Hope you have success dealing with them. Snot in a respirator.... :thumbdn: :(
 
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