What are you using on your Handles

Barkes Knife Shop

Barkes Knife Shop

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Here in my Knife Shop I use
WildaBeast Jig Bone, Stag, Horn, Red Jig Bone,Green Jig Bone, Brown Jig Bone, The Jefferson Lee has the WildaBeast Jig Bone. and the list goes on. Let someone know what you are doing in your shop. Please check out my knife shop and have a great New Year.

Barkes;)
http://my.hsonline.net/wizard/knifeshop
1.812.526.6390
 
Canvas micarta, linen micarta, stabilized wood, dymondwood. I do want to experiment with the imitation amber in various colors. Gonna start using mokume and mosaic damascus for guards.
 
wood, wood, wood, and wood......and more wood........oh, yeah......and sometimes wood too:D
 
I have in stock 25 kinds of wood, everything from spalted apple to zericote.
29 colors of corian
5 kinds of antler
beef bone
leather washer

[yes,I'm a supply freak. Also a tool and equipment freak. OK, I'm just a freak!!] :D

For guards/butcaps I use nickle, brass and stainless.
 
but seriously....I have a good selection of wood. curly maple, english walnut, bocote, ironwood, african blackwood, ebony, lignum vitae, a big stick of amboyna burl, olivewood, real old growth brazilian rosewood, snakewood, cocobolo, tulipwood....i think that's it for now..lol. I have some micarta, but i have only used it once. i also have a pair of Asian sheephorn scales......nt surewhat to do with them....and a piarof jigged water buffalo or bone "impala horn" scales that are too thin to be of any use. You should try some 1018 for guard matriel. It grinds easier than nickel silver and sheds heat much better. Plus,it blues up REAL nice:thumbup: :D
 
Deweyknives said:
I have in stock 25 kinds of wood, everything from spalted apple to zericote.
29 colors of corian
5 kinds of antler
beef bone
leather washer

[yes,I'm a supply freak. Also a tool and equipment freak. OK, I'm just a freak!!] :D

For guards/butcaps I use nickle, brass and stainless.
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Dude, you ain't got nuthin on Mr. Barkes.....checkout that shop....he is a gear SUPERfreak....lol

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I use wood...lot's of it...MOP...dinosaur bone...mammoth ivory, mammoth bone and mammoth tooth...I have a "step buffalo knuckle joint" that I'd like to incorporate into a handle...Step buffalo is an extinct relative of the bison that lived in northern areas (Alaska, siberia, etc.)...much larger than a bison, that went extinct about 10,000 years ago...the piece of bone that I have is a wonderful color of caramel...

lots of brass, nickel silver and mokume...some damascus...I'm thinking I should use more damascus on handles...and pins...some people tell me I have more weight in pin work than in handle material sometimes....
 
Barkes,
Your shop is DISGUSTING!!!:eek: :D How the heck do you get anything done with all that cleaning and organizing you must do?:barf:
BTW my favorite to use is box elder burl.
Matt Doyle
 
Well, I like natrual materials, for now I have; 2 ebonies, cocobola, wenge, ironwood, Black walnut, a couple of burls, Deer antler, Sheep horn, Buffalo horn, Ivory and some other stuff I don't remember off the top of my head. Also I use Brass, Nickle silver and Copper for fittings.
 
mdoyle said:
Barkes,
Your shop is DISGUSTING!!!:eek: :D How the heck do you get anything done with all that cleaning and organizing you must do?:barf:
BTW my favorite to use is box elder burl.
Matt Doyle
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I like working in a clean shop, and I clean as I go. Its not bad at all. I have a over head Air Filtration system here in the shop, and this is made by Jet. It pulls 1650 . All my Grinder have a Pro-Tech. collector that pulls 750, that is also by Jet. Also, its more DISUSTING when you do not have a knife shop to work in. I do not live in dirt and do not want to work in it either. Keeping the shop clean is important as the project. If you let it go over time dust, dirt, steel dust will buildup on and get in your machinery. This can cause problems and problems are money investments. Not to mention what it can do on buffing wheels. And yes when I am not utilizing my buffers I keep them covered. This will help permeant steel dust from settling on them. That can cause nice shiny scratches.

Barkes
When I leave this world I would like to be known by the one who make the knives from start to finish.

http://my.hsonline.net/wizard/knifeshop
1.812.526.6390
 
In the outside woodshop I keep lots of drying lumber and larger pieces. In the inside (clean) shop I have the wood in cabinets and drawer units.The woods range from amboyina to ziracote,and the ivories are from hippo to narwhal. Lots of stag,elk,moose ,too.
By keeping the handle blocks and slabs in an orderly fashion,you can find the right piece for the job.I hate saying,"Now,I know I have the perfect piece of buckeye burl somewhere!"
Stacy

BTW, I keep knife projects in a drawer tray like that.too. I put in the paperwork (drawings,customer info,etc.) the metal,handle,fitting parts,etc.I never have to look for where the piece of mokume for a specific job is that way - or where the whole project is.
Stacy
 
bladsmth said:
In the outside woodshop I keep lots of drying lumber and larger pieces. In the inside (clean) shop I have the wood in cabinets and drawer units.The woods range from amboyina to ziracote,and the ivories are from hippo to narwhal. Lots of stag,elk,moose ,too.
By keeping the handle blocks and slabs in an orderly fashion,you can find the right piece for the job.I hate saying,"Now,I know I have the perfect piece of buckeye burl somewhere!"
Stacy

BTW, I keep knife projects in a drawer tray like that.too. I put in the paperwork (drawings,customer info,etc.) the metal,handle,fitting parts,etc.I never have to look for where the piece of mokume for a specific job is that way - or where the whole project is.
Stacy
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Hello Bladsmith
It look great and organized.

Barkes
When I leave this world I would like to be known by the one who make the knives from start to finish.

http://my.hsonline.net/wizard/knifeshop
1.812.526.6390
 
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