Knife #11 - a Loveless

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This is where I feel I graduate from Kindergarten all the way to the First Grade of Elementary School.

Four firsts for me on this one: My first file work (thanks Bruce E.), my first tapered tang (thanks to all insisting I do that), my first etch, my first 2 X 72 grind.

I am fond of this one and wish it wasn't sold.

Pics are here: http://riflestocks.tripod.com/pics8.html

Thanks, always, to all you who continue to tutor me.

I do hope I get a grade C+ on this one.

Roger
 
Very nice Roger !
Really beautiful knife!
I did not try yet to tapering tang with my coote grinder...
I did not try the filework yet also... And I do not have
etched my blades yet... You have advance on me! :)

What you used for your filework? Files or Dremel? However both?
Do you have stabilized your Maple slabs yourself ?

Alain M-D

(Had you received my Wood scales? )
 
Alain,

I am shocked to hear I did not tell you about receiving the Purple Heart scales. Very thoughtless of me. I am sorry and feel embarrassed not to have thanked you immediately. They came in good order and I really like them. I will name that knife after you my freind.

Alain, I used a small round and a small triangle file. Do you have the link to Bruce Evans tutorial on doing the file work?? If not say so. I, or someone else here, will give it to you.

Thanks for your encouragement. I miss fishing the bush country.

Roger
 
Nice job! That looks very handy, and your finish is impeccable. Tapering that tang wasn't so hard now was it? And you'll never feel right making a knife without it again, will you? :D Nice filework, that's always worth doing.
 
Dave,

I knew I was never going to be able to show you guys another full tang without tapering it :rolleyes:. Yes, I will stay with tapered unless, perhaps, the stock is real thin. I know now that I would not have been able to do it though before getting my new grinder. The 1 X 30 I was using offered no real way to do it. The Coote makes it easy.

Hope you got my email in responce to yours.

Roger
 
very nice work.

what did you use to etch it? finally build your own or break down and buy one?

make your own stencils or have them made?
 
She is a beauty and you did a really great job on the filework..At least a A+ on it all:D
Glad the tutorial help out.
Bruce
 
Thanks all!

Bruce, your file work page was the ticket for me. Thanks a bunch.

SkaerE, I broke down and bought an etcher off the Ebay. It's a 10 amp Lectroetch. I have not built the stencil making device yet but have plans to.

Steve, thanks. I got the pyroceram in good order and am in the middle of tapering a S30V tang now using it. I had already tapered the tang of the knife in this thread using a graphite strip. I like the glass better.

Roger - bombs away!
 
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