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

I just finished those four...
Bad thing is that I have to make sheaths for them....omg how I hate sheath making...:grumpy:


 
Love those knives Malanika!!
Your knives actualy inspired me to try a knife in that style
 
I just finished my first knife.
Had some time on my hands and decided to make 20 of these in this design and another 21 in a Kephart design.
Will keep and use some, but most will go to family and friends for Christmas.

Here are 20 in A-2 I got back from Peters Heat Treat last week.
The 21 Kephart design knives are at Peters right now.

I went through this batch of 20 and picked out the worst one to practice on.
I knew it was the worst one when I sent it in for heat treat, so I left 1/8" holes for the pins where most of the rest will get 3/16" Corby bolts.
Also used an inexpensive $7.00 piece of Macassar ebony on this one with a white G-10 liner for the handle.





















It's been a fun learning experience which no way could I have done it had it not been for all the helpful advice and WIP freely given on Blade Forums...thank you all!
I absolutely have a new respect for all of you that do this every day.
It's been harder than I thought it might be and it's much harder on this old body than I thought it would be.
I hurt many nights after only a few hours of working on these...it's very intense focused work.

One down and 40 to go. :)

I sharpened this one after I took the pictures and was surprised how quickly that went...and how sharp it is!
 
Back from heat treat

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And the first one completed in this batch.

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80crv2, blasted natural canvas micarta, gun blue
 
Takefu vtoku2 from Bill's offering months ago

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Pablo
 
These last few months have been busy to say the least. With a new job, new apartment, and a new shop (huge upgrade from working on the deck of 1br apt :D) I haven't had too much time to work on knives lately. Luckily things have calmed down and I've been able to get some shop time. Here's a few samples of what I've been up to.

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Trying out canvas Micarta on this utility/fighter. Acid soaked 3/32" 1095 and it's nasty sharp

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I like the Ebony against the white G-10. Just one suggestion, I would chamfer your lanyard hole to break that inner edge. I think that looks nicer, and it reduces wear on the lanyard.
 
Wow it's been a awhile since I posted here. It has been a very busy summer so far. I see you're all turning out great work. Always admired your crisp clean work @JoshRG

We just introduced a new model. Well, sort of new. It is our existing paring knife but with a sheath and lanyard hole; turns out this makes a great little bird and trout knife! Meet the "mallard"

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Working on new Grendel mk.IV blades :)
made 4 of them from Bohler K460 (O1) 5mm steel, 2x tempered in 175*C, austenized 20minutes in 815*C, cooled in 170*C oil.
Austenized in anti-scale coating.






 
Well it's been a long time since I've been on here. I've mostly been on instagram and haven't done too many knives lately at all. As a few people know I had an accident earlier this year and lost three of my fingers on my left hand. Anyway, this is what's currently going on in my shop.....

These are some knives I made about a year and a half ago and I was never really crazy about them so I stuck them in a drawer and left them. Well, I have recently been trying to tie up all loose ends so I revisited them. I decided I didn't like the forge scale I left on them, and the handles were just to bulky for my liking, so I bead blasted the scale off and totally redid the handles. This is how they look now.


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Adam,
Nice looking blades. You lost three fingers? OUCH! :eek:

Another maker did that in some kind of a knife Damascus making accident about two? years ago! We had a Auction for him on Knifedogs/Facebook, I think he was in your state? I trust you have healed up well!
 
Thanks Lawrence,

And yes, that was Zoe Crist. I met him because of this through instagram, then we met up at blade show this past year. He and his wife are good people.
 
we're going camping tomorrow and I managed to have this knife & sheath ready to go with us
Made a knife again to enjoy making a knife again and get back in the game
Large enough to be usefull, small enough to have on you, with a sheath to disappear in a front pocket or behind a waistbelt

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