Week-end Post, What Are You Doing

deker said:
Still stuck in Scottsdale....was supposed to fly home today, but work happened and I'm staying until Thursday....3 solid weeks of travel so far...I don't know how you do it Ickie....

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Hey!!! I just talked to my son this AM and he is going to a dog trial today and was driving through Scottsdale when he called me.:D
 
indian george said:
Hey!!! I just talked to my son this AM and he is going to a dog trial today and was driving through Scottsdale when he called me.:D
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Damn it, IG has his agents hot on my trail!...Good thing I'm hiding out in this office building working today.....

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Spent the day forging and working on my knife for the xmass knife exchange thingy... gah maybe I shouldnt have decided to make my first integral bolster blade for my exchange blade, cleaning up the transition between the blade and the bolster is taking me forever, and then i'll still have to see if the blade survives quench/heat treat >_<
 
Leaving Friday AM for Washington, DC. ,where I will be attending the National Tartan Ball.
It is a full blown Scottish Formal Dinner held at the Ritz Carlton. Once you get invited, you are then 'honored' to pay $160 per person for the evening. No telling who will be there.
They are auctioning off one of my Sgian Dubhs.
I'll post photos Sunday night when I am back.
Stacy Elliott Apelt, FSA,Scot
 
Sounds fantastic Stacy, if you meet Matt Newsome there, say hi for me. (he's the curator of the Scottish Tartans museum in Franklin NC, and I believe also going to be in attendance there)

Not sure what i'm doing myself this weekend other than working on a handle for my exchange knife. The blade is done (just not sharpened) so all that remains is the handle, but I want this knife to be perfect (or as close as I can come with my current skill level) as it will be the first one leaving my shop to a non-family member >_<
 
November 9, 2007

This week-end setting back enjoying the beautiful fall day out side. All my orders are up to date. I even got my Knives 2009 form sent in for publication. Saturday I will be on the phone to a professional Photograply to get some work done, so I can get some knives in one of the Blades Magazine. Sunday will be a family day here as well. I think we are going for T-Bones on the barbecue grill with some cold beer, baked potatoes, fresh corn, homegrown green beans, and what's left of the big red tomatoes. How about you folks? What's your plans for the week-end :thumbup:
 
fixing a blade that I got a stubborn wave in, back into the forge, I guess. heat up the spine enough to flatten it out- then back onto the utility/throwers, should have 3 done this weekend and still get work done on the xmas exchange knife, my son's xmas knife, and my brother in law's xmas knife. then if I'm REALLY lucky, I'll finish the polishing on the small fighter, and get the petty knife heat treated.
 
We have company coming for the weekend. Good people. :thumbup: It will be surf and turf with Elliot Ness chasers.
It was a great week to be in the forge. Thirty five degrees, mornings, with beautiful colors in the afternoon.

Have a good one, whatever you are doing, Freed
 
well, I got a really nice utility/thrower done yesterday and another almost done, but now, today, I'm being rained on.

unfortunately, my forge is open air as is my grinding bench, the only things covered are my hand tools bench and leather table in the living room.

So we're roasting chestnuts on the wood stove under the porch and drinking, instead.

though I may say to hell with it and finish this pretty little necker by hand......
 
November 16, 2007

Working this week-end on the yard and still getting leaves up that are still coming down. The tree's out in back of my home are just about dropped all of the leaves. But I still have tree's out in front that just don't want to give up. But I will get the creators sooner or later. Also, been working on another project of mine. When I get it finished I will post it and let you all name it. I think that will be interesting to see what you all come up with. Thanksgiving is next week and so my attention in the shop will be short-lived in there due to that fact. But we all need a break from time to time. How about all of you guys in the land of knife making? What's your week-end look like. I just want to say happy Thandsgiving to all of you. I hope it will be a blessed one for your family.
 
This weekend I want to try to finish the handle on my xmass exchange knife. On sunday I'm going to the NCCA knife show in Marlboro MA. I'm hoping this weekend to finish finding a place to get stencils made for my lectroetch so I can start marking my work. I've got the whole next week off, so I hope to get some decent shoptime in, and I'm going to try to do my first knife start to finish in a week or less. I'm a very slow worker >_<
 
Justin.Mercier said:
This weekend I want to try to finish the handle on my xmass exchange knife. On sunday I'm going to the NCCA knife show in Marlboro MA. I'm hoping this weekend to finish finding a place to get stencils made for my lectroetch so I can start marking my work. I've got the whole next week off, so I hope to get some decent shoptime in, and I'm going to try to do my first knife start to finish in a week or less. I'm a very slow worker >_<
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Justin, this company is just up the road from my house. This is the one I was telling you about on Saturday.:D
http://www.tustech.com/
 
Today cooking up some rock crabs and Sunday doing up some shrimp Portagee style. Saturday hope to press out my burnt canister billet.:jerkit:;):D
 
xmas exchange knife hand polishing, and I seem to be about 1.5 degrees off on the scandi grind, so I'm going to carefully tweak that.

2 petty knives for family christmas, one vegetable cleaver, some throwers.... man, I'm just gonna live in the shop for 2 weeks.

My son is trying to help, and it's hard to find things for a 4 year old to do in a knife shop. I have him breaking up some charcoal sometimes with a ball peen, and he's not exactly super productive, but loves trying to sand scale off after heat treating.

Somehow, he figured out how to steel his kitchen knife, too.
 
Just got home from a 17 hour shift. The moneys good but I'd rather be with my friends. Tomorrow supposed to do some forging with Kook at my house, then go out to dinner. Sunday I'm gonna blow off the open studio & art gallery that Mace is involved with though I would like to go, I'll be jamming with a new band, ought to be real cool :D:thumbup:
 
*sigh*

Such a good weekend starting, then.... ping! :eek: I cracked one of the cleavers in quenching. Other one is fine, as are the other two blades I hardened tonight.

But man, starting a vegetable cleaver over :jerkit::jerkit:
 
November 23, 2007

Well its been good food, great beer, and a hold lot of family here. I am going nuts with all the kids. I will be happy when Monday comes. Hows your week-end look like. Hope you all have a great one as well. -------:thumbup::jerkit::);):yawn:
 
Went to sister Jackey's for Thanksgiving, my side of the family. Great food and company.

Today hanging with wife, doing a little yard work. Tonight, jammin' with the Lightning Brothers. I'll probably take an electric guitar and my resophonic guitar AKA Dobro. The band that is being formed (not from Lightning Brothers), is doing a few bluesey type toons that will sound good with bottle neck slide on the reso, so I'll do a little open G jamming tonight. Now I gotta look for an electric pickup for the resophonic.

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I've had this for about20 years or so, one of these days I'll learn how to play it :D

Saturday and Sunday is open, I know I'll have to stay around the house with Linda, so maybe a little forging :jerkit:
 
Tomorrow have two students coming over Nathan and Les. Les just update my guess-book on my site. I hope to get the burnt canister billet cleaned up and surface ground. Out of a 3# billet I was able to save around 3/4 of a pound.
I think it is just the core left of the chainsaw chain.:jerkit:
 
Well I know its been a long time since I last posted but I'm still alive. IG I didn't forget so don't worry. Thanksgiving was just me, mom, aunt and uncle. The weekend was spent going thru the boxes in the storage shed and pulling out certain ones for my aunt and uncle to take back with them to east Texas. Saturday I also received my long awaited gaskets for the lower unit of an old Eska model 1747-C 7hp outboard I picked up a few weekends ago while hunting in south Texas. Got the outboard and a 12' Sea King boat for $180. Rebuilt the carburetor, replaced the head gasket, fuel lines, spark plug, cleaned out the varnish and rust out of the gas tank, dropped the gear housing for the prop to clean it out good and give it fresh gear lube, and pulled the engine off to tighten the water tube that cools the lower unit. All that is left to do is get it out on the water. Having to wait til we sale the house and move before I can setup shop again. Sometime before xmas I'll be heading back down to south Texas to hunt for a gobbler and 2 hogs.
 
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