What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

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Just finishing these two customs as well. S35 Karambit and S90 Pocket Razor. Just need a final edge and sheath.

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Just finished this one up this weekend. This is the first chef's knife I have attempted and I will be letting some chefs and cooks that I know try it out to get some real use feedback. It is 8 inches forged 1084, and finish and black G10 with stainless pins, tapered tang and I left my etch un-darkened to subtly blend in

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LCKT707 said:
Been working on some fun bottle openers lately. Calling them BeerRambits, they're bottle opener karambits for those of you who are like me and love spinning and flipping things. Two impact points and a scraper/pry bar.

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Nice stuff guys!

The last while I've been working on designing a new 8" chef's knife. I'm excited with progress so far! Playing with a couple options for the ricasso area

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Just added this bad boy to my shop. Its a wells index CNC milling machine. Its about 25 years old. Not strictly just for knife making, but she'll do some of that too. Didn't pay much for it money-wise up front, but I suspect I'll pay plenty in time and money in the coming months getting it in good running condition.

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FJ1906 said:
Just finished this one up this weekend. This is the first chef's knife I have attempted and I will be letting some chefs and cooks that I know try it out to get some real use feedback. It is 8 inches forged 1084, and finish and black G10 with stainless pins, tapered tang and I left my etch un-darkened to subtly blend in
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That came out very nice!
 
I'm finishing these knives for customers. Making the tooled leather sheaths now. Then final scratch removal, polish, sharpen edge, and then finish with braided kangaroo lanyard. These hunters have fine flat ground edges and are 60 - 62 Rc with CPM stainless steels.

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If you don't mind, a couple of ?s about Solid works:

Can you do French (Bezier?) curves, for a more flowing knife?
How do you like it?
What is the learning curve like?
What was the cost?
Would you buy it again? Or, is there a different program you would recommend?
Have you ever tried designing folders on it (where you could rotate the blade, and see how it fits in the handle).

thanks!

Don Nguyen said:
I've been designing a couple things (on top of making them too)

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I have been using SolidWorks for 3 years now in Uni (I believe it was first developed at my school actually).

>Can you do French (Bezier?) curves, for a more flowing knife?
Yes, though I must say that SolidWorks' spline feature is not the most robust, can be somewhat unintuitive, and extremely difficult to properly constrain. It does work just fine.

>How do you like it?
It's very capable and I've never really been left wanting by it
>What is the learning curve like?
I've been told it's much better than comparably capable CAD programs, but it's all I've known. For what it's worth, the tutorials it comes with are pretty good.
>What was the cost?
Still using my university license, but it's $4 grand according to Google
>Would you buy it again? Or, is there a different program you would recommend?
Only because it's what I'm familiar with the most. If you want to do CAM you'll need another add on like HSMExpress or HSMWorks. I know Aaron Gough and a few others have had good things to say about Fusion 360, especially since it does both CAD and CAM.
>Have you ever tried designing folders on it (where you could rotate the blade, and see how it fits in the handle).
Yes, the only folder design I've made (making the fourth and fifth copy of it) were first designed in SolidWorks.

Sorry for the short answers, I'm on my phone.
 
seionage said:
If you don't mind, a couple of ?s about Solid works:

Can you do French (Bezier?) curves, for a more flowing knife?
How do you like it?
What is the learning curve like?
What was the cost?
Would you buy it again? Or, is there a different program you would recommend?
Have you ever tried designing folders on it (where you could rotate the blade, and see how it fits in the handle).

thanks!
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It's worth looking into Fusion 360 as well... I was a solidworks user for a long time, but the cost is seriously prohibitive. I actually like Fusion better, it comes with CAM built in, and it costs about $30/month.

From what I've seen Fusion is just as capable as Solidworks, and it's workflow meshes with how I think better which is a bonus.
 
seionage said:
If you don't mind, a couple of ?s about Solid works:

Can you do French (Bezier?) curves, for a more flowing knife?
How do you like it?
What is the learning curve like?
What was the cost?
Would you buy it again? Or, is there a different program you would recommend?
Have you ever tried designing folders on it (where you could rotate the blade, and see how it fits in the handle).

thanks!
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I haven't really done a french curve; my knives are pretty basic in design so at most I need 2 different curves in series.

I like SolidWorks a lot, but that's only because it's the only program I've used (available through college).

Learning curve was not that bad. I had a class on the basics but you could easily learn it through the tutorials and YouTube.

I would try other programs first before considering buying, but so far it was been very powerful for me so it's a possibility. I work with a team to design a small Formula car using SolidWorks. I have a friend who recently tried Autodesk Fusion 360 and he really liked it a lot.

I did one folder, but I would need more practice. I did my fitups working through an assembly of parts, but there are probably much better ways of doing it.
 
You're on FSAE Don? I design the frame for my school's, what a coincidence. Though we switched to Electric 3 years ago.

And for the record I've tried doing a folder driven off one sketch in one part with different parts as different configurations of the same part. It's messy in its own way but at least you only have one sketch to tweak and all the parts more or less update in step.
 
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