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Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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Might do some forging this afternoon. Guess it depends on the weather.

Who knows what the ret of the w/e holds.

Hope everyone has a safe and productive w/e.

What are ya'll doin?
 
I've got some forging to finish up and the rest will be shapin' and grinding. This has been one helluva long week and I think I might even have a few adult beverages tonight. Was going to to hit the Arkansas Show this weekend, but I have to catch up on orders and the knife fund needs to be put into buying more supplies.
 
I am finalizing an offer on a new house up in Hudson, NH...I hope we get it!

Other than that, Im shipping out a few knives that I need to put final edges on and I may try my hand at a large sheath for a knife that I whipped out this week that I may offer up as a passaround since it has a few minor cosmetic flaws that I am not sure I want leaving my shop otherwise.
 
Gonna assemble my new drill press and set up the dust collector my employer gave me! WOOHOO!

...waiting for a big storm to arrive, too. We'll see, as I've lost almost any faith in modern weather forecasting of late.
 
Got Helen's relatives coming over on Saturday to visit her for her B'Day. No knife work this weekend.:(
 
Finishing up a small Bowie this afternoon. Slotted the guard and three-piece ferrule with my new Sherline Mill. Also cut the tang slots for the mortised ironwood handle.

Havin' a ball with that new toy.

Robert
 
Gonna go and hang out at my buddys house. He's an old bastid that has a huge knife, gun, die cast car, die cast plane, kachina collections and other assorted stuff that brings the local firestation to his house to see his stuff every other week.

And he's getting rid of some of it!

SCORE!
 
Working my way through a "Shakudo-tutorial" arrowhead; it's being "interesting".

Going to visit Michael Kanter tomorrow, hopefully; get a peek at his press-in-progress and drool on his Bridgeport. Looking forward to meeting him in person.

Hope you all have a great weekend! :)
 
I've got some grinding to do today. I'm loving that rotary platen. :D I'm setting up for a local gun show in BelAir this w/e. It's about the only one I do anymore. I'm pretty much all internet these days. I've got alot of odds and ends to sell more so then my knives at the gunshow.
Scott
 
I'll be trying to finish up a small utility knife for my nephew's 12th birthday. If I get that done, I'm going to work on getting a few blades profiled. I'm also going to be researching dust collection systems. Working in the basement instead of a garage has made me a believer! That will be my next equipment purchase.
 
Probably working on my buddies jeep still. The same one I posted about in the friday thread 2 weeks ago :eek:
It started off as a weekend project putting a 6-1/2" lift on. When I crawled underneath it to start breaking bolts, there was a very disturbing amount of carpet hanging through the floor boards......
So we took out the seats and tore out the carpet which was soaking wet. And then it was pretty much a straight shot to the ground in most places so we were looking at a floor pan. Start cutting out the rest to get back to good enough steel to weld too and pretty soon we were looking at no floor left at all. Anywhere :eek:
To top things off....its a unibody and the frame was getting pretty bad in places too.
So for the last two weeks I've been going over after school or work and working on the jeep till 10 or 11 at night. I welded a bunch of tubing into the frame. Welded brake metal around the edges of the body so we'd have something to sit the new floor on, cut out floor peices from 14 gauge sheet steel and hammered them to shape, installed the lift kit which was pretty much a completely new suspension(leaf springs, coil springs, shocks, control arms, track bar, pitman arm and brake lines), and now we're waiting on parts for the transfer case and a new rear drive shaft. When we get those done, I can go ahead and weld the floor down, and then there are body panels to repair:yawn:
If he ever sells or wrecks this jeep I'm gonna whup his ass!
 
Sounds like a hell of alot of work Matt.:eek: How did you make out deer hunting? This past season had to be my worst ever.:grumpy:
Scott
 
working with some cross cut plam
boy is that stuff interesting to work
outdoors men show on sat and i guess i ll be watching something on TV on sunday not sure what yet






right i ll be watching the steelers winning the big game
this year its not goingto be just to see the new ads :D
 
Razorback - Knives said:
Sounds like a hell of alot of work Matt.:eek: How did you make out deer hunting? This past season had to be my worst ever.:grumpy:
Scott
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Lots of work is right! Been fun for the most part, but I'm going to be alot more careful about agreeing to help anybody out with a project again:D

Deer hunting didn't amount to much. They were all over the place before gun season, but never got close enough for the bow. Once gun season hit they were pretty well spooked and didn't show themselves much, probably hanging out in the park down the road where you can't hunt. Never had time to really go out more than an hour or two in the morning or evening anyway. Maybe next year :)
 
butcher_block said:
working with some cross cut plam
boy is that stuff interesting to work
outdoors men show on sat and i guess i ll be watching something on TV on sunday not sure what yet






right i ll be watching the steelers winning the big game
this year its not goingto be just to see the new ads :D
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Dude!!! Outdoors Men's Show????????:eek: :eek: Now you really got us worried.:jerkit: :jerkit:
 
butcher_block said:
.....outdoors men show on sat......
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sorta like a Village People in camo and orange??

dang, Chippendale in camo hot pants and Timberlands.... hot.hot.hot :D
 
Gonna Make a couple Knives tryin to get a few for the Badger Knife Show in March and probably upgradin to knifemaker on the forum here...seems like a good group of people id like to be a part of...
 
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