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

[NeilJBorja]

Kevin,
Only one problem as far as I'm concerned, not enough pictures.

Seconding i4Marc, we need to see more of that hamon, that looks fantastic and it's not even done yet

 

[Kevin Powers]

Kevin,

I think you've done a super job. Sounds like you learned a lot too, bonus! Only one problem as far as I'm concerned, not enough pictures.

Thanks! Pictures are misleading, there's tons of shaping and stuff left to do. I really need to refine the lines on the handle. There's also a little gap on the top shoulder of the guard. It's always a learning experience.

 

[Kevin Powers]

Seconding i4Marc, we need to see more of that hamon, that looks fantastic and it's not even done yet

Thanks! On Instagram there's a lot of WIP pics and videos. If I uploaded a video to photobucket and posted it here the quality would be terrible.

Let's try YouTube.
[video=youtube;BSbZPVdo8wk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSbZPVdo8wk&feature=youtu.be[/video]
[video=youtube;dhPmWG-Y5PA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhPmWG-Y5PA&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Make sure you select the better quality to see the activity

 

[Larsje100]

Thanks! On Instagram there's a lot of WIP pics and videos. If I uploaded a video to photobucket and posted it here the quality would be terrible.

What's your Instagram? Beautiful work on that knife!

 

[Kevin Powers]

What's your Instagram? Beautiful work on that knife!

Not exactly sure what the rules are about discussing this, in another thread we were discussing it though. I'm not selling so it's powersknives.

 

[Lo/Rez]

Very nice. I'm not into bowies too much, but I definitely like that one.

 

[Daniel Rohde]

My first Bowie, all freehand ground, even the clip. First w2 knife. 2nd hidden tang, 2nd sculpted handle. Olive burl from a curly burl slab I got from the woodworking guys at my work. Hoping to finish it up tomorrow, lots of little stuff left to do including trying to dome a pin for the first time. This is somewhere around my 28th knife in the 15 months I've been making.

WOW! Very impressive! you have come a long way in a very short time :thumbup:

 

[P. McKinley]

These are the result of wanting to practice a few techniques - handle mortising and ferrules. That and I had some really nice walnut around that I enjoy using. I spent a lot of time ensuring that the blades fit firmly into their respective sayas using the choil and spine as primary contact surfaces. One is made using moose antler, moose bone for the other. I am still looking/waiting for more brain tan deer hide that I can use for sageo.

-Peter

Walnut and Moose Westernized Daisho, Tanto and Kaiken

Blades: Tanto- 8 1/2", Kaiken-5 3/4" of forged 1095, hand sanded to 600 grit finish then etched and polished to reveal a wispy hamon.

Handles: Pennsylvania air dried American Black Walnut for both pieces. The Tanto has stainless steel bolster and a heat-colored copper "seppa", Moose bone ferrule, and a hand turned moose bone pin that has been domed, polished, and set proud. The Kaiken incorporates a Moose antler ferrule and hand turned pin also domed, polished, and set proud. These handles were both given a Tung oil(6 coats) and buffed paste wax finish.

Saya(s) - Matching pieces of the same air dried Black Walnut. The Tanto has a moose bone ferrule set slightly proud of the mouth face to accommodate the copper "seppa", and a bone kurigata. The Kaiken wears a moose antler ferrule and kurigata. These sayas were both given a Tung oil(6 coats) and buffed paste wax finish.

Here are a few photos(sans sageo):

 

[P. McKinley]

A post-WIP selection of shots:

-Peter

Moose Bone:


















Moose Antler:

 

[Maelstrom78]

Impressive!

 

[AVigil]

 

[Brock Cutlery]

Pretty strange looking knives, but I like them. Nice work!

 

[Kosa_PL]

Some Vanadis 4 Extra knives on table

 

[SBuzek]

Here is one I had Chuck Ward shoot for me at the Art of Steel show last weekend.
4-1/8" Single blade Trapper Black Jigged bone,Damasteel Stainless Damascus.
This one is my donation to Knife Rights this year.

 

[LARRYZ10]

Stan, That knife is beautiful. Thank you for sharing the photo. Larry

 

[Rhinoknives1]

Stanley,
Darn fine looking folder!

 

[Lo/Rez]

Very nice knife indeed. And very generous of you.

 

[HSC ///]

2 this past week, another Carter pattern neck knife, thin slicer with rosewood handles, seriously tapered tang, has red and white liners.
and a kiridashi, flat ground to convex.
However I got too aggressive with peening one pin and cracked the wood :-(
both are in forged laminated steel with Hitachi white core
still have along way to go in learning how to move the hot metal to my desire

and I also swapped out this motor from a 3450 RPM to the same in 1725

 

[Brock Cutlery]

2 this past week, another Carter pattern neck knife, thin slicer with rosewood handles, and a kiridashi, flat ground to convex.
However I got too aggressive with peening one pin and cracked the wood :-(
both are in forged laminated steel with Hitachi white core
still have along way to go in learning how to move the hot metal to my desire

Knives are looking good H!

 

[Erin Burke]

Excerpt from some WIP photos I'm collecting.

I did a lot of cool stuff over the weekend, but one of the highlights was getting this new quill stop installed.

One of the shortcomings of my Grizzly Sieg X3 clone (G0463) is its lack of a built-in quill stop. Fortunately, Grizzly sells a kit for this... and living about an hour south of their Bellingham store, I was able to take my daughter Zoe on a tool date Friday morning.

While the printed instructions were fairly miserable, overall, the installation didn't go too badly.
Also in the photo, you can see my new Phase II 6" rotary table from Enco. Still needs to be oiled... and I'll need to make/buy some smaller t-slot nuts and rods for clamping to that tiny table.

Erin