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

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But I did get the dial and handle fit to the Y-axis on my mill. I was using vise grips without any indication before. :(
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ahhh broken handwheels, i know that feeling

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not pictured is the one that was absolutely smashed to smitherines.

Only recently got around to fixing them
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FTOdude,

Yup, broken handwheels are a pain. Last night I finished a custom indicator and handwheel for the right side of the X-Axis which has a powerfeed servo on it. I can leave the mill alone and just use it finally. It's done.

I haven't broken mine, they weren't mounted, or needed custom fitting. The aluminum handwheels are rather easy to break I hear.
 
I sell a lot of these here locally, especially this time of year. It seems like every time I sell one it leads to 2-3 more orders from the customers friends and relatives. Anyway, they're acid etched O1 & jigged bone. 4 of them are Amber and 2 are Goldenroot. The Amber has the smaller/shallower jigging & the Goldenroot jigging is a little deeper and wider.
The pants for them will be ready tomorrow and then the customer can pick em' up. They're gonna be Xmas presents for brothers and brothers-in-law.
 

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Patrice, broke one unloading it from the trailer. Didnt have a crane so we were sliding it off onto a trolley, the last bit of the base dropped down but the bottom of the handwheel caught on the trailer...smash.
Next one was just milling, getting some chatter and apparently the grub screw on one wasnt fastened so the vibrations shook it off.

These cast aluminium ones are notoriously brittle but it was just screwing up on my part that caused their demise! lol
 
Those are awesome Darrin! :thumbup: :cool: Great looking knives, but they look like real work horses too!

Can never get too many machine pics guys :)



This wasn't ON the bench, but he and his brother were holding me in place in front of my bench... So apparently 2- 175# dogs work great as a paper weight for a 240# man. LMAO

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And I also got in some time pretending to be the unabomber ;) I HATE HATE HATE wearing gloves, but I've got a few open cuts on my hands and the G10 dust is a real beeyotch when it finds its way into the skin. The knife was one of the big choppers I posted earlier in this thread.
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I hear ya Nick, I hate working with G-10. Don't get me wrong, its great stuff but I HATE working it.
 
Life is a bit hectic around here and knifemaking slow but I got some progress on this one:
Here's what I learned: don't file a tang slot before bending and heating with a burner

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Prolly should have put this here since it's been shown a couple times in various stages (like in post #49).


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Amazing work, Nick. I've learned more from watching your WIPS and studying your knives than from most videos I've ordered.
 
carbonsteel928 said:
Amazing work, Nick. I've learned more from watching your WIPS and studying your knives than from most videos I've ordered.
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Yep, Nick better be glad I'm not within an hours drive. If I were, he'd probably have to get a restraining order to keep me out of his shop. LOL Seriously though, thank you for all you share with us Nick.
 
My new work in progress.. Finger hole bowie in 1095.

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Here's my most recent project...
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Patternwelded fillet blades, an 8" with a ladder pattern (around 300 layers), and an 11" with composite twists... right now they still need a lot of grinding, but I'm happy with the profiles and patterns. Steel is 1084 and 15n20, the composite blade has a w1 edge.
 
Just finished hanging a couple of hammers - 4lb. sledge and a 3lb. cross peen - had to make the handles with a rasp and sandpaper as my belt sander decided to die on me. My new small post anvil and drawing tool made from an excavator pin and an old welding bead test piece. I work almost exclusively with scrounged or recycled materials. I am pleased with both.

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I finally took a pic of some of what I have been working on. I have one that is almost complete, and is glued up right now, so I didn't disturb it. Some of these are Christmas presents so I am a bit pressed for time as usual :).

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HaHa, thanks fellas. :) I could use the company Darrin... the dogs will only say so much throughout the day... ;)

Erik- AWESOME pics! Love seeing that sort of thing. :D

Willie- That's a nice looking lot you've got there.:thumbup:
 
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