UPDATED - Traditional Knife Steady Rest

Brumby53 said:
Hi MC, The thin piece on the end is made from an old stainless wood working plane blade. Nothing too scientific about it but I reckon the tram track would not have handled being ground down that thin - just way too soft.
The wood working plane blade is pretty hard, again no science in it but it is harder than all my regular knives way more than Rockwell 60 - as it only protrudes about 3/4 of an inch I think it will work okay. It is only mostly used to peen the scale pins so not really thumping on it too much.
As you can see from the pic by trial and error I got it to force fit into the slot I cut in the track (It's not going to come out without a lot of "persuasion" :D

I am now at the 'point of no return' with an old Camillus Barlow :cool: This will test me!



Derek
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I have an old Barlow just like that that has Colonial on the tang. Do you know if Camillus made some for Colonial ?????

Harry
 
Harry .... actually my mistake....:mad: This is a Colonial - you can see in on the tang here too. I was tossing up between a Colonial and a Camillus to be my first refurbishment project and just got muddled (Not uncommon these days :confused:) when I put the post up. I am hoping this will end up with some nice Stag scales.

Cheers

Derek
 
Thank you Derek for posting these pics. Very nice job on the steady. Thank you as well Glenn. I like your work station. Inspiring for sure.
Nathan
 
This is mine. I think it's A2, I can't remember.

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Initial design before I decided to split them apart.

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Before milling, flattening, fly cutting the large plate, painting the vise.

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Great work Derek, and thanks for letting us see it :thumbup:
 
Hey, great work! Looks very nice!
 
Jack... S Porch ... Glennbad ... Genovich ... Phil .... Mike

Thanks for your encouragement and kind words Gentlemen - this is the first of many (I hope) - I have several old electricians and barlows that could be improved with this sort of attention.

Glennbad - thanks for taking the time to check my work out, you are part of my inspiration to start trying my hand at this.

Derek
 
Brumpy53, Beautiful job on the steady rest and the gorgeous stag sheepfoot barlow. I want to get into tinkering with knives as well. S Porch and you have recommended that same book , I need to find it. What is the u shaped notch used for and the thin metal protrusion? I assume it functions for more than a place to beat on, otherwise the back flat part of a bench vise would suffice, I would think. I appreciate any info.
Thanks.
 
Top job Derek.
is that Sambar or Rusa?
it suits the knife to a T either way.
cheers.
 
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