The Alaskans' bladesmithing adventure in Brazil!

Hey Adam... was finally able to make it over to this thread and read and look at the pics. It looks like you and Haley had a FANTASTIC time there in the sunshine and tropical weather!! Thanks for the words and pics and sharing your adventure w/the rest of us.

Hope you guys are suffering too much being back up North now... :D
 
Looks like you guys had a great time. Fantastic looking knives. By the way, I wanted to make a couple of corrections.
1. Snowbirds are what we call tourists like you down here where the sun shines more than 40 days a year.
2. The correct term is "Alaskan blue-white Day Glo skin"

So are you two and Jimmy having some kind of competition to see who can spend the most days more than 5000 miles from home?;)
 
DesRosiers said:
It is a press fit that goes in under a lot of pressure. I wondered about the lateral movement myself until I messed up my first try and had to remove the wood. Believe me, it's not going anywhere! The "twin" tangs are spring tempered, and actually hold tension on the wood. You can further "key" the wood in place by grinding a groove in the internal surfaces and filling it with epoxy, and if you were really paranoid, you could pin it all together from top to bottom, but I don't think any of that is neccessary.
Adam-
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Brilliant! Thanks. And that epoxy "key" is a stroke of genius.
Thanks for sharing that.

-Stuart
 
Hello Guys! Thank's for your comments on your experience, it was a wonderful time for sure!
Adam, thank you for posting it here, it was a great pleasure to have you here brother, you and Haley are the best kind of friends somebody can have.
We had a lot of fun, and we'll have more in the future, I bet!
Can't wait to see you guys again at the Blade.

All the best!
 
Mike Quesenberry said:
What's a Cheechako? We have folks that leave my neck of the woods in wiinter and share the same snow bird term for them. Can't blame em', last week there was five feet of snow on the flats.
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A Cheechako, is a new-comer to Alaska, the opposite of that is a Sourdough, It should be noted that a Sourdough can be busted to Cheechako status if they are found to have spent too much time having too much fun in Brazil. It can even happen to someone who was born in Alaska. The first sign is they start to lose that wonderful pasty pale whiteness we call an Alaska tan.:D
 
Beautiful thread indeed. It's good to hear about people having fun and learning good stuff from our country!
 
ouch! it hurts my eyes to watch his knives.
they are fantastic! I find it really beautiful and a new style of this type of knife.
that her incredible experience, c is a beautiful avanture
congratulation
Samuel Lurquin
 
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