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tom mayo

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Go slow, plan out your work, and always pay attention to what you are doing...I spent all yesterday building TNT #2 and wasnt thinking and ruined one side of the handle in 4 seconds by drilling a hole in an inappropriate place....The hole is fine on the front side, but right in the middle of the lock cut on the back side....4 hours of work down the drain.
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I learned that lesson on saturday. I was grinding off the "bark" of the handle section of the 440C knives I was making, and after one slip I ground a groove into the handle at the edge!! It is too deep to ignore, and too wide for grinding the handle a little thinner
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I think this blade will be my first test of my filework skills,if I have any!)

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Hey Crayola, don't be sad. If it's just in the handle section, cut it off and make a folder from it.

Achim
 
While working on a wooden sheath (my first) I sanded too far and now there is a soft spot near the tip where I routed out the wood for the blade.
Now I'll have to cut the tip off and fit a new one on. The sheath is nice cocobolo, so i'll use a dark wood like ebony or african blackwood. I'll also trim the throat and do the same. I thought about using contrasting woods there before my slip, now i'll get to see what it's like.
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It's frustrating, but at least it's salvagable and I learned something in the process. Go Slow! Measure everything...TWICE.
Be adaptable.

Anyone got a scrap of dark hardwood to sell...email me ...thanks
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~~TOM~~

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Great advice, Tom. I've done the same thing (Many Times).

I can add:
"You can always take a little bit off but you can't put any back on."

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Barry
Jones Knives

"For DUTY and HUMANITY!"
Curly, Moe, & Larry
 
I've done the same far too many times. Couple of weeks ago grinding on a very expensive piece of desert ironwood on the handle. Ground through in to the tang space. Not paying attention and 4 hours work along with $50 materials up in smoke. It would have been a beutiful handle but thats life I guess. At least I did not have to scrap the blade too.
 
I would have to make a trophy room for all my mistakes.
As long as I don't get hurt I try to laugh at myself for the brain fade.
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Scott Jones
Good things aint cheap and cheap things aint good
 
Tom, one more mistake like that and you're fired. I just won't tolerate sloppy employees
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Right on Kit! That's how I uncover some of my best designs.

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Jerry Hossom
www.hossom.com
 
Tom,
I considered a metal tip and throat, but I'm just not good enough
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I can work in wood...if I remember to go slow.
I've seen some of Scott Slobodian swords and tantos that have sheaths with contrasting woods at the tip and throat. They look fantastic. All I can do is try to come close.

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~~TOM~~

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AchimW-

I am working on blades # 3, 4 and 5- that is, I have only made 2 before now! I'm putting off folders wor a while yet
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I did pull out my grinder today though and the little whoops I made is much smaller now, and I think I'll be able to get the whole thing out!!! I actually like mistakes- mistakes mean I get to learn something! And I thought I learned them all on my first knife. Ha!!!!!!

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