Hopefully some of that water will be flowing down from upstate to you.
Yeah they sure get more up that way than we do. I was talking to a friend that runs a ranch up there. He got 28 inches out of one three day storm!
Sheepwright knives....
Doesn’t sound the same.
Sounds like you might have just be warm enough. I love a good vest
jacket was a bargain
I'm a fan of sheepskin, vest is about 17 years old my youngest used to knock it off. You would find her on the lounge vest fully zipped sitting all tucked up, so her head was the only thing sticking out, very cute. I do have ugg boots, sheepskin gloves and if it's really cold sheepskin beanie. The sheepskin factory is only 50 minutes away with a factory outlet about 20 minutes.
Makes sense doing as much as you can outside sounds like you are busy. Past 2 weeks we've been getting severe summer storms, another thunderstorm expected later today.
Have a great day!
You are absolutely right, Sheepwright just doesn't have much of a ring! Yeah those boots are cozy! Mine are Uggs too, a lace up style like a chukka boot.
So I've been processing the handle materials for this next batch. The sheep/ramshorn scales get their liners glued on. The glue I use needs a full day to cure so these liners are one of the first things I do when processing handle materials. In this pic from the bottom a set of rams horn and then two sets of sheep horn and another near the top next to that very nice block of ironwood.
I sand down the scales on the inside prior to glueing. Otherwise you could lose all the texture when shaping the handle. Also, you are gonna have some imperfections to sand out usually too. Here's a nice set:
If the liner color has been specified (an order), then that is noted on the tape. This Mestano is gonna get green liners on its rams horn scales:
I use an old fashioned paper cutter to cut the liners and I do the spacers for the bolstered knives at the same time.
The liners will be numbered so that I know what set goes to what knife:
Next morning I unclamp all the scales and then the excess material needs to be trimmed off.
This lil portaband saw on a SWAG table is a workhorse. I had a large free standing 14" bandsaw. I gave it away years ago. This will cut everything with a simple blade change. 10tpi for handle materials. 14tpi for steel and other metals.
I'll take the scales to the flat disc to get the burr off the liner from sawing the excess off. I do this without the flat disc running as it's easy to grind too much liner off and screw up your flatness. Ask me how I know. Just rubbing it back and forth on the flat disc will take care of it:
While those were drying yesterday, I got busy on some of the other materials. I had a few knives in this batch that needed very large elk scales. I didn't have enough large ones in my elk box so I had to cut up and process a small batch of scales. When I do this to fill up my elk scale box I will do two or three times as many as I did here.
Thirty five minutes in a potassium permanganate bath and drying:
Couple coats of a clear coat and they are good to go:
Cut up some wood scales too. Here is a set of what I call "Historic Oak". From an old bran in MO, from the 1800s, that fell down. It was in a friends family and he gave me a board to use from the barn.
Damped with a paper towel and it shows better how it will look when finished:
Sorry for the paper towel fuzzies but it definitely has more life now.
Well I got everything glued up yesterday and so will be shaping handles today.
