Good weekend in the shop

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Well, I cut up all that wood yesterday, so I decided to get some blades done today.
I spent seven or eight hours in the shop. Got a good bit done:
I finished off 24 damascus sgian dubh blades (six carbon and 18 stainless)
Forged and ground out three new designs of fishing/hunting knives
Heat treated all 27 of them
Did the final handle grinding on ten embellished and modified DDR3-BL's
Glued up the handles on 10 fillet knives and six sgian dubhs
Found the first knife I ever made (back in 1960). Been looking for it for a while.I am going to clean it up a bit and post photos later.

The blades are all in the temper oven now, so I'll post photos tomorrow.
Stacy

 

[Justin.Mercier]

<-- waiting in anticipation to see those sgian dubh picks, as I'm working on another sgian dubh myself which i wnt to have finished before the NH Highland Games in 2 weeks

 

[butcher_block]

was all happy with myself for getttign 7 knives ground out for heat fri night
now i sorta feel like a slacker

 

[deker]

Well, I guess SOMEBODY had to have a good weekend in the shop....I screwed up some steel this morning trying a fancy san mai, then found a crack in the middle of a damascus billet that was supposed to go into a blade for a friend. Exited the shop before I did any more damage....

-d

 

[nate1714]

well u make me want to cry..i hope ur happy...lol sounds like some one is a hard worker...

 

[scottickes]

Holy Crap! Now that's production!!!

Ickie

 

[Stuart Willis]

Wow, I must need to drink one of those energy drinks or more coffee. Can't wait to see the pics.

 

[deker]

Oh yeah, Stacy forgot to mention that he never sleeps, doesn't take breaks to eat, and is likely some type of extraterrestrial being...

-d