What are you guys working on? Pics please!

[J. Rosa]

I've got a small batch going.
Some small blades

And some things for the FCS kali crowd

I have a machete or two and a Hudson not pictured. Hopefully I can get started on my first folder too. Busy is good. So what do you guys have going on? Pics please!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Did I even mention I do some machining from time to time?

Since you asked, this is what is on my bench at the moment:

This stuff and some other stuff deliver tomorrow.

 

[JW Knives]

A little bit of everything over here!

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I'm working on kiridashis, 22 0f them in 52100 and 5160 steel.

I have been working on some Damascus lately, here's the billet. It is 52100/5160...

I have also been working on this crazy compound grind knife in 5160 steel.

 

[Salem Straub]

Cool stuff guys. Nathan, you should make a big effort to make your machining work look more professional. (Typed in "Sarcastica" font.)

I just finished (yesterday) a big Busse-ish camp knife. Forged out of 1.25" round CruForgeV, torch hardened. Green canvas micarta scales, SS hardware. 18-3/8" overall length, 2" wide blade.

Next up I have a boning knife in customer design phase, and I just finish ground a small utility with SS bolsters and desert ironwood today. No pics yet, sorry.

 

[Dave Behrens]

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This doesn't count the 26 blades I have out getting HT at the moment....*sigh* so many blades so little time....

 

[Frank Niro]

I'm still getting my new shop together. I guess there is nails, pieces of wood, screws, drill bits and ----- Frank

 

[tryppyr]

I'm working on a dagger (for my uncle) and a leather neck roll pillow cover for my wife:

At the office I'm trying to pull the final details together to get a 980-node cluster configuration operational (and hand the project off to the team that will own operating it).

In my spare time (yeah right) I'm building my web site and learning to use new tools to improve it.

- Greg

 

[Patrice Lemée]

I'm still getting my new shop together. I guess there is nails, pieces of wood, screws, drill bits and ----- Frank

We want PICS!!!!

Nathan, you should make a big effort to make your machining work look more professional.

I agree with Salem, some sloppy work there Nathan.

You guys make my dizzy with working on a zillion knives at a time. Some very good looking and interesting stuff guys. :thumbup:

I am working on that dagger but we had enough pics of that. Here is a side project I am working on. Maybe my first foray into actually selling a knife, we'll see. Simple (well simpler anyway) take down small bowie in 1095 with hamon.

 

[BenR.T.]

Working on a 20" short sword, and half a dozen small utilties.

 

[unky_gumbi]

I am working on getting my butt off this chair and getting to work, it isn't working that well

I have been doing a lot of yard cleaning trying to get ready for the inevitable cold that will come, but its hard to do when it is sunny and 50F in December

 

[Wyszrd]

Geez, I thought I was a little old for epiphanies, but seeing Nathan's pics made me realize that seeing metal shaped and machined to a purpose gives me as big a thrill as a blade, and is probably responsible for my interest in knives. Or maybe the other way around. Perhaps I should have taken courses in machining. And psychiatry.

 

[GTH11]

Heres a mixed batch of some ATS34, D-2, 440c, alabama dam, 1080, and L-6. I just got an order of corbys so i can start puttin some of the h/c together, im planning on some n/s bolsters and stag for the hunters on the left, and a mixed bag for everything in between. GHaile

 

[Remyrw]

No pics of what I'm working on currently, I just finished profiling another nubilus blade that's for a customer. My burl arrived for a couple kitchen knives I'm making as christmas gifts, and I just finished a piece for myself for once. Testing my HT for Aldo's 1084 and getting a feel for it before I started on a customer's knife. Since I have pics of that... Not any real effort to make it look pretty but it's exactly what I wanted for function.

 

[mgysgthath]

I made my first very damascus billet today, which I'm pretty excited about. It's 1080/15n20. It's a LOT of work doing it by hand.. which I knew before I started, but the reality of it has really set in lol. It's just 6 layers right now, and I'm working on drawing it out a bit more before I re-stack it.. I think I'm going to stop at 12 or 18 layers on this one, or I'm going to lose the arm I forgot to take the camera out to the shop today sorry, but I'll take some of it later. Can't wait to get it done and etch it!

 

[reiko1078]

Been busy making every piece of leading edge on the latest gulfstream 550 aircraft shine like a mirror and in my free time I've been working on this little guy. My first tapered tang ground on my 1x30

 

[jonnymac44]

Great looking stuff guys!! The holidays are upon us and I had to take some time to go get a tree with the wife and kids and do some decorating, but my bench is still busy!!:thumbup: Here is what it looked like this afternoon.......got some grinding going one, some handles getting done, a few ready to be shipped out, etc. I love having stuff going on in lots of different areas of knife making. I never get bored that way. I might wake up, go to the bandsaw and grinder to do a few profiles, then I'll glue up some handle slab/liner combos, then maybe do some bevel grinding or finish work.....all the different stages keep things fresh and interesting. I love it!!

Keep up the good work everybody!

 

[Mike Davis]

Here is what i currently have on my bench( many more but no pics)

Just got these finished

Have a few going right now
Mike

 

[AntCaps]

Slowly but this beast will be complete one day.

 

[kungfumo]

Building a new 2x72 grinder and learning how to mill allot more It will be a very slow build as I only work on it a couple hours a week, and I dont feel like spending a bunch of money right now! but I only need some nuts and bolts and a few wheels. I'll do a build when I get it done to show every body how it works.

No where near as good as Nathans machining skills but I'm learning!!! got about 10-15 hours maching into it. The lightening holse where not nessisary but I wanted to learn how to mill angles on my kurt swivel vice base

Got the idea from Mick's "Sofa King Grinder" on the USN

Lots of choppa's as of late too, 4 so far with 12-14" blades! this one is a one off I did while working on other guys choppa's. The dang things are too big to put in my oven. ad to send them out

Something for my wife