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Sam Salvati

Sam Salvati

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A lot of exciting things going on of late, scored a stick welder, the shop is currently being wired for it now. between tong orders and finishing up the last of the first batch of cutler's hammers I have been making some new tools and some other projects. Here I snapped some photos tonight, a bowie I will take to complete finish, with no hammer or scale marks left over. It is my first knife EVER that will have no marks of the forging, polished oval shaped guard and nice wood and EVERYTHING. Also is a tool called a pin bender, still have to make up the pins, but you can put little hardened and tempered pins in the little holes and arrange them how you need to make precise repeatable bends, farther apart for long subtle bends close together for tighter bends, i just layed out some 1/4" holes on 1/2" square grid. I will get some 4140 or 1045 for the pins soon. And the last is a teaser photo of a collaborative effort between me and quite a famous bladesmith, but more on that later :D.

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Here it is all polished and sharpened.

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Also my friend Shawn gave me one of these hawks, He bought some here awhile ago I forget who he said made them. It was a second, the grind on one side was all jacked up but a couple heats in the forge and it was back to business, I Ht'd it right up. A really cool design!!!

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Always love seeing what's going on in your shop, Sam!:thumbup:

Good stuff, I especially like the pin bender.
 
Good stuff going on there Sam! That bowie looks promising and pin bender should really be handy.
 
I thought you were maybe going to take that block with holes in it and plug them with some other kind of rod and make some funky damascus. I love seeing people make stuff though!
 
Sam Salvati said:
Mitch! How you doin man?!
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Just got done with 6 months of Chemo; feel like crap. Radiation and oral chemo to start Monday. Looks like I'll be above ground for awhile yet.
Can't wait to get better so I can get back into the shop.
-Thanks for asking.
 
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