Skinners are taking shape.

I think I over-estimated my window on second look Jonny. It's more like 5 weeks. :eek: I did ship em, wish me luck. In the meantime, I can play with stuff like this - you may remember it.

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These showed up today. It turns out I will not be as rushed as it seemed because I decided this wasn't my year for the trip. I'll send them up to Canada this year anyway and I will look forward to hearing how they do.

Now I have to decide how to dress them. I'm going to do some of the normal outdoor colors, but I will most likely mix it up a bit. I wish I had some leather working skills at this point for a few of the sheaths.

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Cool, they're back in hand eh? Get to work buddy, I want to see how they turn out.

Even if you stick to black or earth tones for handles, show me at least one knife with a thick liner in yellow, orange, or toxic green. Something bright that pops!!
 
I’m back at the skinners. It was not fun to realize that I would not finish in time for October, could not afford to go to Canada last year, and that I needed a hiatus from these things because they mattered too much to me. I did some other projects and took a break. I can’t believe I started these last July.

Here’s the batch after HT and with affair amount of bevel/flat work. This is my least favorite point in the process. To me, they always look better pre HT and/or post slabs.

The one on the bottom needs some disc grinder love – It’s a vertical taper throughout.

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Here’s the bottom one up close.

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here’s a bad picture from the cutting side.

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This one should be cool. It’s less skinner and more EDC, but I like it. I have a friend who I want to make a leather sheath for it. He hasn’t said “yes,” yet, so we will see.

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This one may have the most visual appeal.

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This one is pretty clean so far. Distal and tapered tangs, but heavier. My tapered tangs need more taper.

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Here are a couple things I did during my downtime, outside of some other knives that you may or may not have seen.

Playhouse for the kids.

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Frame for my sign.

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Slab suggestions are welcome, I have a few ideas but more knives.

Take care,

Erik
 
Those are looking great, Brother! I know how it goes having to walk away from a project for a minute... Anyway, I'm glad you were able to get back to them - they are looking far too clean to be forgotten! Looking forward to future posts/pics and the final product.
 
Those are really looking good. I am interested in how they turn out. Your grinds are nice and crisp.
 
Thanks fellas, I imagine some will have scales on board next weekend for some of them. When I taper the tang, I also taper the scales so that everything is square before I get drilling. The disc grinder with the deck attached comes in handy for that, along with a caliper.
 
Nice work Erik. Looking good mate.

I have had a bit of a hiatus from making also. Need to get back into, got the guild show in May.

Your grinds are looking super clean!

Matt
 
I finished 4 other knives and a dive sheath, but with the holidays, and needing some belts and paper, it took a while to get these going. Thanks Daniel and Matt.
 
Here's where I am today. The slabs are camo, black, dark brown, and green canvas, and burgandy linen (all micarta). The liners are all g-10, white, grey, toxic green and hunter orange. The bolts are stainless and the center pins (not shown) are mosaic. All of the tangs are tapered but only by about .030-.040. (not much, I know). The slab prep and drill process is so time consuming, that in the future I will only taper when it's going to be a big taper. Some people shim their slabs for drilling on tapered tangs, I prefer to taper the slabs and drill flat. Either way, it's a process - especially with bolts.

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Nice! Making some good progress bud:thumbup:

Naturally I'm diggin' your handles:D

Keep it coming, I love seeing this stuff
 
Thanks, Jon! My next knives will be wood models. I'm almost done practicing and I want to start a few lines that are worth repeating, so a modeling I go.....soon

EA
 
I roughed out the slabs and got 5 of the 7 bolted and glued today. I have to search for black epoxy filler, as the damn mosaic pin had voids throughout.

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