Tell me about your swivel knife/blades.

Been a while since I visited Barry King's site, last time was well worth it. :)
 
Who buys coffee at Starbucks? Up till now I've been taking your advice. :p :D

Seriously though, if you ever get a chance to stop at a Pete's Coffee & Tea...
 
If you can afford Starbucks, you aint a serious leather worker! All my money goes towards bills and leather.
 
leatherman said:
If you can afford Starbucks, you aint a serious leather worker! All my money goes towards bills and leather.
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Yeah, but do you drink beer? I don't so I gotta have a vice of some sort. Really need to squash the smokes too.

Maybe I should take up drinking Fiebings and smoking Hermann Oak. You know what? Those do sound like beer and cigars! :D
 
That ain't fair. Sitting here eating hot wings and popped a top on ol Sam Adams. I would have to come down off my mountain for that. Can't breath that stuff you guys call air down there.
 
Funny, I'm actually about 20-30 minutes from you right now. Visiting some friends in Bako. Is there a Tandy around here? Not that it would be open or anything.

Just waitin on an invite to your shop and I'll motor that way one of these days. I'll even bring some decent coffee. ;)
 
Strigamort said:
Yeah, but do you drink beer? I don't so I gotta have a vice of some sort. Really need to squash the smokes too.

Maybe I should take up drinking Fiebings and smoking Hermann Oak. You know what? Those do sound like beer and cigars! :D
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Beer is one of my final vices, but I enjoy the stuff that costs me for a case what those micro brews cost for a 12 pack. :)

I gave up those cancer sticks a bit over 20 years ago and never looked back, what they cost now I'm kinda glad I did. I cant believe how much cigs cost now!
 
They are ridiculous, but the addicted will find a way. On reservation land you can get a good (bad of course) carton of smokes for $25. Still twice as much as when I started, but not as much as Camels. Why am I even talking about this? Thank goodness this isn't someone else's thread. Then I'd really feel like an a-hole. :D
 
Some chromium oxide or green rouge and my leather wheel
on the grinder motor and im ready to tool again.
Away from my tooling table a business card and red rouge
work real well as a strop.
Chuck Smith from Calif sells the angle jig and the stone
to sharpen at the correct angle. I add diamond paste
to the stone works great if you don't have a leather wheel.
I made mine 6" wide and 1" thick.
 
G'day. I bought my Tandy swivel knife in 1976 and a ruby blade shortly after. I have done countless miles of cutting with this blade for over 30 years and it is still sharp! (never dropped it tho!) The blade needs to be a wide bevel to allow easy placement of the bevelling tools. I use a narrow, hollow ground blade for decorative cuts and filigree work.
 
by Twin Pines Leather
I've been using a ceramic blade for almost 20yrs. There are two
Master leather carvers that I know and have talked to that have
used a ceramic blade a lot longer than I have, and I'm sure you
all know them - Jim Linnell and Bill Gomer. They each have their
own way of keeping their knives sharp as do I. First of all, every
knife blade that I have ever seen coming out of the package has
striations (grooves) in the blade. I keep the blade at a 30 degree
angle & start with 400 grit - then to 800 grit - and lastly a 2000
grit ( all wet dry paper ), finally I strop it for polishing. My solution
to getting the grooves out ( told to me by Robert Beard - master
leather carver & excellent tool maker ) is NOT to pull the knive
toward you but to move it sideways ( in the direction you would
be carving ) thus eliminating the grooves in the blade. It works,
and the blades work smooth as silk. Naturally as for any knife,
the leather must be cased properly.
 
A lot of good memories in this thread. A few members we haven't seen in a while as well.
 
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