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

Frank Niro said:
The scales were a wood micarta not nearly as pretty as those you make.
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North Arm Knives said:
Nice stuff guys! I love the paper micartas you're making @pablo
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Thanks guys!, I would love to find a distributor in the USA, these are not homemade, a factory mades it for me, so I can supply large quantities. But shipping single sheets by mail makes the product when it reaches the USA very expensive, more than g10 at least.


Pablo
 
As many people who would buy it, myself included, maybe someone here can push the idea to one of the knife supply distributors here in America. Anyone?
PEU said:
Thanks guys!, I would love to find a distributor in the USA, these are not homemade, a factory mades it for me, so I can supply large quantities. But shipping single sheets by mail makes the product when it reaches the USA very expensive, more than g10 at least.


Pablo
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first sword is in progress. Tomorrow it's the flatter first, and then forging bevels. Want this one done in the next 4 weeks before I take a class up at new england school of metalwork in sword forging. I want to have forged at least one sword before then, so that I will have already made some of the first time mistakes and know what to avoid!

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Now making my first kitchen knife :)
"Santoku" 140mm ( was 150mm but I burnet tip when grinding in hard ) from NCV1 steel 2,6mm ( ~80CrV2) .
Now epoxing with Brown Mahogany and brass pins :)
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Also done HT for 4 Tengu-C knives from NCV1 2,6mm steel ( Petty and Usuba was hardened 5 days ago)
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And got back from water-jet cutting my 2,5mm ELMAX blanks.
18x Tengu-C and 18x Garmr!
Now time to drill holes, finish the edges and make bevels etc ;)
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Justin.Mercier said:
first sword is in progress. Tomorrow it's the flatter first, and then forging bevels. Want this one done in the next 4 weeks before I take a class up at new england school of metalwork in sword forging. I want to have forged at least one sword before then, so that I will have already made some of the first time mistakes and know what to avoid!

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Justin,
The sword year has been moved to next year. I don't there will be sword forging classes this year. Decker is doing the blade forging class.
 
First post!

Here are a few I've made over the past few weeks



All pins are brass
The large chef's knife is fully integral with buffalo horn bolster, brass spacer, and ironwood handle.
The santoku and smaller chef's are walnut and ironwood, both integral with black and blue G10 liners like this:



Attempt at getting a picture of the handle contours. Not quite set up to take good pictures yet



The two small guys on the left are ironwood and dymondwood. The one on the right has Ancient New Zealand Kauri wood that I picked up while I studied abroad there. I stabilized it myself. It had a beautiful wave pattern that went throughout the wood, but got a bit washed out as I progressed in grit. Kinda sad, but still pretty special to me :)

 
Got today a new Drill press :D
Optimum Opti B23 Pro (400V 3 phase version)
I know it's chinese, but very well made. (Flott cost 5 times more...)
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Made me a quench tank and picked up this old burner for $2 to heat the oil.


Tried a hamon/quench line on some 1084....what do ya think? I have never tried it before. The bottom pic is it after temper and sanded to 400 grit just so I could check it out. I still need to grind in the bevels.


 
MusicSmith said:
First post!

Here are a few I've made over the past few weeks



All pins are brass
The large chef's knife is fully integral with buffalo horn bolster, brass spacer, and ironwood handle.
The santoku and smaller chef's are walnut and ironwood, both integral with black and blue G10 liners like this:



Attempt at getting a picture of the handle contours. Not quite set up to take good pictures yet



The two small guys on the left are ironwood and dymondwood. The one on the right has Ancient New Zealand Kauri wood that I picked up while I studied abroad there. I stabilized it myself. It had a beautiful wave pattern that went throughout the wood, but got a bit washed out as I progressed in grit. Kinda sad, but still pretty special to me :)

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Nice assortment of Kitchen cutters! Don't worry about the pics, knives are one of the hardest things to photograph. If the grit washed out as you progressed in grits try leaving it at about 220 grit. That gives a good hold on the handle when you're hands are wet.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
Justin,
The sword year has been moved to next year. I don't there will be sword forging classes this year. Decker is doing the blade forging class.
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I'm taking a 5 day class at the New England School of Metalwork the week before Ashokan. Where i'm going to make another sword, so I should have at least 2 swords before ashokan, and even though sword year got bumped, it just means i have even more time to make MORE swords!
 
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Justin Presson said:
Made me a quench tank and picked up this old burner for $2 to heat the oil.


Tried a hamon/quench line on some 1084....what do ya think? I have never tried it before. The bottom pic is it after temper and sanded to 400 grit just so I could check it out. I still need to grind in the bevels.


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That looks pretty good and it's an interesting little knife.
 
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