Progress Thread - The Redmeadow Bowies

[Redmeadow Knives]

Buster Keaton from the silent movies. The grandfather of everything funny as we know it.

He was a ridiculous stuntman.

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Buster Keaton was (also) a knife maker. Troof, know that.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Buster Keaton was (also) a knife maker. Troof, know that.

Well we know he used one at least once, that's all the proof I need

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Alt. Ivory and Black Richlite (similar to paperstone) came in today, half of the ingredients to one of our Bowie's.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

The notch will get cleaned up after I grind the main bevel, ignore the sudden drop for now.
I'll get the other one blanked out and run them through some thermal cycles in SS wrap.

 

[Mack]

Ooooh, this is gonna be good.

 

[Dopic1]

She is gonna be sexy.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Two peas in a pod.

 

[mitch4ging]

Sweet! Seeing double!

 

[AKC]

And starting to look oddly familiar;

A very early Randall "Commando", here sported by a mildly famous aficionado;

Can't wait to see the finished product...

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Ha, Errol Flynn sporting a Randall?

Welcome Alan, we're just getting things going.

 

[Scott Hanson]

Are those both 7" or is one larger?

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

They're identical Scott, just an illusion.

 

[Scott Hanson]

That's what I thought, is the AI from Masecraft?

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Yes it is, have you worked with it before?

 

[Scott Hanson]

No, but it looks like some pretty nice stuff. I have some scales I bought from North Coast Knife Supply that I played with a little, it seems to take a better finish than paper micarta and has a little nicer color, I've made some things out of white paper micarta and it seems a bit porous and traps tiny bits of buffing compound, I'm not overly impressed with white paper micarta. I keep looking at AI because there's always the possibility you won't be able get any ivory not even mammoth or sell it in the near future. New York, New Jersey and California have already banned mammoth ivory, that's a lot of people you can't legally ship a knife to with mammoth ivory.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Get me your address and I'll send a piece your way Scott. It's hard to describe, lighter than I thought it would be. I ordered some in 3/4", 1", and 1 3/8".

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Getting things twinned up. Lined them up in the Bump guide and evened up the shoulders.

Man that still creeps me out

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[Scott Hanson]

Blades are looking good do far.

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Love these WIP threads! Looking great, John!