I did the Gent scales. Tried my hand at some different G10 options. Also, recently I've been on a bit of a kick trying to learn a little silversmithing, jewelry making. Mostly using copper, and some investment bullion silver that I purchased at the very top of the market some years back. Because the value since purchase had been sitting nearly half what I paid, I just decided to play with it instead of storing. Some of it I've tried melting and pouring into different ingot shapes. But for the scales, I needed to hammer out my own sheet metal from the ingot pours. On my little 15 pound anvil, that took for-evvv-errrr. But I managed to get it pretty thin, and finished it off with the texture from a checkered faced roofing hammer.
Looking back, I obviously should have just started with some coinage for the sheet. But nooooo. For some reason I got it in my head that I needed to make it out of my own 1/4" thick bar pours.
Did similar for the copper sheet, only I started out with a piece of copper pipe that I opened up. So not nearly as many hours required to hammer out the copper.
I ended up making one scale in silver, then the other out of copper, in an attempt to decided which I liked better. But since they took so long, I still haven't gotten around to finishing mates. So that knife continues to be used in it's bi-polar state.
My monster crucible.
I even tried my hand at making some US Quarter Mokume. But never really got any tight enough to be able to work from billet. Maybe some day. But currently only using a little propane torch, baby crucible whip, and tiny little anvil. Maybe someday I'll improve a bit.
