Week-end Post, What Are You Doing

Tomorrow i'm going to be cleaning the house and doing yard work if the weather is ok. On sunday I will be going to the NCCA knife show in Marlboro MA.
 
Today, I gotta re-assemble my snow throwing attachment for my small tractor, really gotta get that done before the snow comes. This afternoon, probably take a ride out to spend some time with a friend who recently lost his wife to cancer. Tonight, Kook, Marleen, Linda and I are going out for dinner.

Tomorrow maybe Kook and I will be at the Marlboro knife show, ya gonna be there Spike, if you do, don't forget my knives :D
 
December is my best time of the year. Its when I get out of the shop for 8 weeks. It my time off from knife making. I will be out out in back of the home working on wood and doing what the wife wants to do. Its that Honey To-Do List you know. All knives orders are up to date. Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year. God bless and thanks for a nice year here. Busy Busy as we all go. :)

Terry
 
I'm actually going to work on my smithy, clean up an old anvil Charlie gave me and rearrange my workbench for my new paradign!

Oh, got homework, tests and have to help the wife set up her new store... ah well.
 
Taking a class in hammer making from Brian Brazeal. My first hammer as forged, looks like this so far:

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-d
 
This will be a big weekend here with most of the family coming in. And with all the small ones I will go nuts. But its that time of year. Hope you all our having a nice one as well. God bless and Merry Christmas to you all. :)

Terry
 
I'm trying to get the final details done on 50 knives for a one man show I am doing next weekend. Got the handles polished yesterday. It is raining pretty hard, so it looks like I am not going out to the shop to start sharpening them today.
Stacy
 
I was going to go to the new england blacksmith's southern bunch get together and potluck in Narragansett tomorrow, but they moved my family xmas party to tomorrow instead of the saturday after xmas. Sunday i'll be driving up to maine to visit my grandfather.
 
One man knife show tomorrow from 2-6PM. I made up 22 fillet knives, but 18 have been pre-sold before the show starts. I have a lot of professional grade culinary cutlery, some folders, some collectors level customs, a few hunters, and just for the fun of it...a sword or two. I will be taking orders for more fillet knives to be delivered in January.
Stacy
 
I also am cleaning up the old shop as well. Be outside a lot working in the yard. We got all the lights up and tree and being putting up some fire wood also. its been cold here at the home. They are calling for some snow to come in tonight and into Saturday. Hope you all have a nice weekend as well. :)

Terry
 
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The show went well. I sold all 22 fillet knives, two sets of professional chef's knives, and three letter openers. I took orders for five fillet knives when the next batch is ready.

Today, after singing this years cantata, I went out to the shop and finished two jobs, They are ones that were done separately with two boys this fall. One is a hawk, and the other one a drop point hunter. Hawk has spalted persimmon, and the hunter has buckeye burl. I did the finishing and will engrave them tomorrow. I will get them to the parents in time to go under the tree. Neither lad has any idea they are finished.

I'll be working about 12-14 hours a day for the next four days, so this was the last chance to get them done.

Stacy
 
Good Job Santa Stacy :D

I forged ornaments as gifts for my family, pictures up on wednesday when I get home home.
 
Finally got a couple days to re-boot. It has been absolutely crazy this year. The new store location did OK ( moved last year after 24 years in the old location), and the newer old store ( opened it 7 years ago) did over $1,000,000 this year. None of that is mine (well, I get a good salary out of it), but the main reason we did so well is because I have been there for the past 25 years. It pleases me that my work is sought after.
Tomorrow is Judy and my 13th anniversary.


I have been working on my annual New Years Dinner, and thought I would post the menu and info that I have decided on so far. There will be a few changes and additions as I cook, but this is the basic plan for the six person sit down diner, served in six courses. I'll be cooking all morning on the first. No, you can't drop by and say, "HI" on new Years Day.
Stacy

New Years Dinner - 1PM, January 1,2010
Don and Barbara, Bill and Mary, Judy and Stacy

Hors d’oeuvres and Aperitif
Dom Perignon
Cheese Canapés
Pate’ Canapés
Caviar Canapés
Grapes
Ceviche - scallops, persimmon, lime, kumquat, Asian pear, habanera peppers,
cilantro, garlic, salt

Soup Course
Lobster Bisque with Cognac, caviar, and black truffle
Garnished with chive, herbs, rosemary flowers

Salad Course
Micro Greens
Pepper strips
Grape tomato
Hicima crisps
Kumquat balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
Entrée
Herbed Quail, served on a wild rice and fruit bed
Couscous with nuts, berries, kumquat, Black Truffle
Asparagus with lemon-truffle butter

Desert Course
Fresh fruit trifle - Short cake, Gran Mariner sauce ,
Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, turbinado
sugar, Gran Marnier whipped cream, White and dark
chocolate shavings, mint

Digestif -
Wines and Spirits
Aperitif - Dom Perignon Champagne
Diner- Riesling, White Zinfandel
Digestif -Ruby Port, Single Malt Scotches, Cognac,

Coffee and Tea
Kona Dark Roast
Assorted Teas
Decaf Columbian
 
Why can't I just drop by. I think it would only take two whiffs to fill me up.

You do go all out for your New Year's Eve dinners, though.

I'm going to a retreat at a Christian Wilderness retreat type of place for New Year's Eve through Sunday. Hope to take some bushcraft type classes and learn to do something constructive with my knives.

Would love to see pics of your fillet knives.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
 
Family roadtrip 4 cities 5 relatives, 2 days. My fatrher in-law just gave me an old Southbend lathe in reasonable condition for christmas.
Now I'll have a little toy lathe in my basement ( and won't have to drive an hour to use my real lathe any time I need to turn a pommel

I'll post the christmas knives soon

-Page
 
I always love to read the menus you come up with... would probably love even more to be a guest :p

Finishing up the "Shift" my first blade to be completed after my paradigm shift away from tooling. Charlie's seen it and seemed to have liked it course he could have been lying to make me feel better. I remembered a lot of lessons, unfortunately most of them a little late.... "10 minutes with a hammer is 2 hours with a file."
 
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