Odd and unique shop tools

[Rusty McDonald]

Mabey a jig to hold the blade while you put the handle/guard on.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Looks like the ideas have sort of dried up.
Bet some even think they came close!
Here's what you do:
Clamp your assembled knife in the "Andersen Forge Inlay Device", and scribe around your oval inlay .

Place the "Andersen Forge Inlay Device" in your vertical mill, and, using the attached "leg", level the inlay area to the level axis of your mill:

Mill out the oval inlay pocket to your desired depth. With the help of the "Andersen Forge Inlay Device" you can remove about 99 and 44/100% of your inlay pocket and have not only a nice flat bottom of the pocket, but most of the pocket removal material can be removed in about 19 seconds.
Just mill right near the scribe line, and remove the remainder with rotary tools.

After epoxying the inlay in place, leave the knife in the "Andersen Forge Inlay Device" and file smooth.

 

[Beile]

Cool! It has three uses then. I thought it was a straight jacket after driving us crazy for a day. We all knew it worked as a torture device!

 

[TekSec]

for doing inlay in the handle material .

That makes Jack the winner!

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

That makes Jack the winner!

No - he was talking about wire inlay.
He didn't mention anything about it holding the knife in a vertical mill.

 

[TekSec]

Oh, darn...

 

[NickWheeler]

for doing inlay in the handle material .

I don't see anything about wire. It was steelshaper that said wire inlay.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

When it comes down to it, the TYPE of inlay is irrelavent.
It's purpose is to hold the knife level in a mill.
No one got it.
Who's next?

 

[Rusty McDonald]

Lets not start picking nits here.

 

[TekSec]

Man, I don't have any decent jigs....

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Lets not start picking nits here.

There's no nit picking here.
Wasn't close enough to call it a "nit".
Before this gets out of hand and people joke about it or get confused about it, no one mentioned oval inlay or holding the knife for use in a mill to mill out the inlay pocket.
The last two items I've posted have BOTH had silver wire inlay.
It's easy to see that the mention of "inlay" was in reference to those.
Now, let's move on.

 

[scottickes]

If no one gets it, then the person that was showing their shop tool gets to pick the next contestant. Therefore, I suggest that Mr. Anderson pick the next person to choose one of their unique shop tools.

This is going well. Great shop tool that a lot of us will make and use. This thread may turn out to be a great learning experience.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

I wouldn't know who to pick.
So, how about the FIRST PERSON to post one!!!
Take it AWAY!!!!!!!

 

[Jack O'Neill]

That makes Jack the winner!

Weather I won or lost , beware of what you ask for . It's cold and it's late , pics tomorrow just for fun .

 

[James_Terrio]

I wouldn't know who to pick.
So, how about the FIRST PERSON to post one!!!
Take it AWAY!!!!!!!

What the heck, I'll jump in...

It's a plastic lid from a container of sour cream, butter, or something like that. I go through quite a few. What do I use 'em for?

 

[Rusty McDonald]

mixin epoxie/jb weld?

 

[scottickes]

Drawing a radius on handle material, et al.

 

[TekSec]

Frisbee

 

[aggopian]

Used to protect your work from vise jaws

 

[James_Terrio]

All are good ideas, but Rusty McDonald wins.

For whatever reason, the epoxy doesn't adhere to this type plastic. So when the job is done, the epoxy just crusts up on top of it and you can peel it right off. Eventually they get all gooey and dirty, but you can re-use them at least a couple times.

Incidently, this makes terrible spacer/liner material for the same reason

Take it away, Rusty!