So whats on your workbench this March of 2013?

[Hankins]

See previous thread!

 

[P. McKinley]

Were you having General Tso's chicken for lunch and forgot to put your carbon steel chopsticks away?

Tee heee hee heee heee...... maybe.

Well ok, yes. It came to me in a vision. Admittedly a rather blurry vision, but I had to go with it. The materials are still undecided, but they were going to get birch bark and moose antler "handles", as were all three of the components in this set. The customer and I are still working through the design.

-Peter

 

[Calvin Robinson]

These just came off my bench yesterday.

 

[Erin Burke]

You'll see.

Awe Petey... you're such a tease.

Were you having General Tso's chicken for lunch and forgot to put your carbon steel chopsticks away?

Chopsticks?!?!... Perfect... that's exactly what they look like, now that you mention it. I figured that I was looking at some sort of straight-edge grinding clamp thingy that I was just too thick to figure out. The shadows on the leather kind of looked like a second set of sticks... and the gold mark at the end looked like some sort of brazing. I almost built myself one just to figure out what it could be used for.

 

[Leethal Cutlery]

Tee heee hee heee heee...... maybe.

Well ok, yes. It came to me in a vision. Admittedly a rather blurry vision, but I had to go with it. The materials are still undecided, but they were going to get birch bark and moose antler "handles", as were all three of the components in this set. The customer and I are still working through the design.

-Peter

I can't wait to see some wood inlayed sheaths!!! You do crazy good sheaths!

 

[Rick Marchand]

 

[tattooedfreak]

That's it Rick? A picture? No story or explanations, not even a pithy comment? Are you feeling ok?

 

[Rick Marchand]

Rough night... it kicked the pith out of me, bud.

 

[Brian.Evans]

Just this one right now, should be back from Peter's HT soon.

I've four other slipjoints on steel right now, waiting on time to cut them out.

 

[Fletch Helical]

At the moment these two. I have another Bowie I plan on doing hopefully soon too. The smaller one I know goes against a lot of knife design and may look goofy but I designed it specifically to skin deer. I wanted something that I can get my index finger over the tip so not to poke through the hide while I'm cutting and the ramp will give me good control too (so I hope). So it was built really for only one task. It was a design I did shortly after making my first knife a few years back, sent it out to HT and it sat for a few years. In the process of doing an 800 grit sand, will finish up at 1000 then do the scales. Yesterday I finally got some Dykem and prepped the Bowie, will be the first knife I ever used a layout fluid on.

 

[Jesse Latham]

My bench has a little of everything on it. A few knives and some new stabilized blocks.

 

[Fred.Rowe]

It must be a knife makers credo, you can't have too much stabilized wood. My knife maker friends show me their wood stash as if it were the Crown Jewels. I am guilty as anyone.

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

wow !!! you guys are animals... and to think how proud I am to have made my first 2013 knife... this thread makes me realize just how far behind I am..... great work guys its so nice to see so much going on around the work bench.. !!!!

Fred, your mom was spot on.. time has flown for me since I was 25, I'm now 43 and cant imagine where the years have gone, funny how when we were kids we couldn't wait to be 18 and it took forever ..................................................

this is the only thing that's come out of the shop let alone bench since early Oct.... But things are looking promising I think I just need to build a stool to sit on and help out with my current issues....

convexed grind (not scandi)

I'll try to post my profiles on the bench later..

 

[timos-]

I spent October, November, December, and half of January building a work area and a belt grinder. Then I just couldnt stop grinding, drawing, and drilling.
Heres a couple pics of my bench, my first batch of knives is just about ready to go to Peters for heat treat.

Ive bit off more than I can really chew...learned alot in the process and tons of help from all you wonderful people on this forum!

Its all AEB-L and 1095 from Aldo.

Looking forward to cleaning these up and getting some more steel!

 

[Don Nguyen]

A couple things I'm slowly working on, but won't finish for a long, long time.

Here is one of them recently cleaned up: