no knife making today for me

30 below outside, 64 inside, put together a mammoth tooth and blue amber drop point, it looks kinda good.
 
Lots of fun here, at least the sun is out !!!!!! -Larry

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Farmer Phil said:
Holy smokes, that's cold!!! Got any pix of the landscape and/or the sexy knife?
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Yep it's cold, heres some pictures of my new store front, and the mammoth tooth and amber knife. I roughed in the knife this morning and it will have to cure like that for a month or two. The shop addition a been working on for two years and it will have to cure like this till March. The coldest I have ever seen it was 68 below on the trapline one day. Hey Larry, I was a machinist in Mnpls about a million years ago. Worked at Crown Iron (built the Dome) and AEM built abrasive planers. What about those Vikings, aye.
 

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Mark that mammoth tooth sure looks nice on there. Beautiful up where you are, hopefully it will warm up a bit.

Larry
 
It's about -22C, warmer than it has been over the weekend when it was -32. I keep the house about 25C by day (75F), and cooler 60's at night. I heat with wood, and when its cold like this it can be weeks before the oil furnace kicks in. I only use the oil when it is mild like when I am out at the cabin and nobody is home.
 
Mark Knapp said:
Yep it's cold, heres some pictures of my new store front, and the mammoth tooth and amber knife. I roughed in the knife this morning and it will have to cure like that for a month or two. The shop addition a been working on for two years and it will have to cure like this till March. The coldest I have ever seen it was 68 below on the trapline one day. Hey Larry, I was a machinist in Mnpls about a million years ago. Worked at Crown Iron (built the Dome) and AEM built abrasive planers. What about those Vikings, aye.
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Where's the moose in those photos? Oh, guess I watched too much Northern Exposure in the 80's. Did you forge that knife ;) on that sign? Although it's bloody cold there, at least it doesn't look like you're up to your arse in snow drifts. The knife looks like it's got lots of wow factor going for it. What do you mean by curing for a month? Thanks for posting!
 
Farmer Phil said:
Where's the moose in those photos? Oh, guess I watched too much Northern Exposure in the 80's. Did you forge that knife ;) on that sign? Although it's bloody cold there, at least it doesn't look like you're up to your arse in snow drifts. The knife looks like it's got lots of wow factor going for it. What do you mean by curing for a month? Thanks for posting!
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A cow moose actually gave birth to a calf in the back yard once. No I didn't forge the knives in the sign, those were strictly stock removal, my buddy has a CNC plasma. Like most natural materials mammoth tooth moves after you finish shaping it from exposing new material to the atmosphere (it dries more)and relieving internal tension, and mammoth tooth is particularly bad. So if I let it move while it is still here and finish sand it again it will move a lot less when it goes to it's new home, this one is going to high desert country with humidity similar to mine so it should stay still real good when it gets there.
 
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