First time basement hobby knife making - have a look.

Beautiful finishing on that snakewood. As someone who sells a lot of exotics and always tries to see the end product, Im always a little sad when people dont take woods to their fullest potential. That sanding/ buffing with what looks like a clear coat is a truely top tier finish.

Were you a woodworker before you made knives?
 
Great looking job! First time I've seen a first knife with a makers mark etched in.
Why waste time getting going, eh?
 
Greenberg Woods said:
Beautiful finishing on that snakewood. As someone who sells a lot of exotics and always tries to see the end product, Im always a little sad when people dont take woods to their fullest potential. That sanding/ buffing with what looks like a clear coat is a truely top tier finish.

Were you a woodworker before you made knives?
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No, not at all. I just figured I'd try my hand at knifemaking.

The Snakewood is just sanded up to 320 or 400, then buffed with white compound. Also, the snakewood knife I kept as a personal user. I got the wood too hot and had some cracks appeared. From what I have read, it's a common buffing error with Snakewood.




 
Jonathans said:
Great looking job! First time I've seen a first knife with a makers mark etched in.
Why waste time getting going, eh?
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Exactly! I can practice now, so when I retire, I can make knives full-time instead of sitting in the park playing checkers with the pigeons. :)
 
Interesting to see such variance in opinions coming from other knifemakers.
Regardless of "correctness", I'd love to be able to make something like that in my basement (or anywhere else for that matter).
The grind makes me think of a Brusletto my brother-in-law bought for me when he was in the military:

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Hey mike, you want to delete that comment and move it to the sale thread. Its against site rules to talk about sales outside the sale area.
 
How are you doing your grinding, edge bevels are the hardest thing for new makers to do corect and short edge bevels are even harder. Just wondering what machine your using?
 
Are you just running that on a rest and adjusting the angle of the flat platen and rest to get your grind height?
 
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