Tip of the Year!!!

[L6steel]

Before you go doing something you've never done before to a $121 bar of damascus, practice on some scrap!

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Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!http://www.nebsnow.com/L6steel
Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!!!

 

[Guy Thomas]

Michael, Michael, Michael...we don't have to share all of our mistakes!

Especially the really costly embarassing ones!

Please tell us, however, that you didn't turn it into a nub!
-Guy Thomas

[This message has been edited by Silent (edited 07-24-2000).]

[This message has been edited by Silent (edited 07-24-2000).]

 

[L6steel]

Lmao Silent, no, I didn't totally lose my mind. I wanted to carve the vine pattern in the back of the bowie like Alan Folts did in the pass around bowie and just didn't do it right. It will still become a knife. I shouldn't be too upset over it, I never have made myself a knife, maybe it's time.

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Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!http://www.nebsnow.com/L6steel
Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!!!

 

[LRICE]

L6,
Just a little something I do... I practice new vine patterns on part of the metal that is going to be ground away anyway. Then when it looks right, you can put it where you want it and you've practiced on the same metal that it's going to end up on.