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

Good job, guys! Love to see what you are making. Here is what I have been working on.

XHP core stainless damascus. Rocky Mountain Elk antler with paper micarta and mortise tang construction.

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Working on a small batch of 17 right now. These are on a small four foot plastic table. I can then move them around to various places in the shop as needed. I do all my blade grinding and handle shaping outside so this table just trots along with the grinder work bench when I roll it outside. Looks like this table has seen a couple of knives glued up over the years.

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Of the 17 these have bolsters and are done separately. Here the pins are drying.

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Some ironwood and some elk:

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Next day I trim off the excess handle material, sheep horn with liners here.

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Here's the six without bolsters. While the pins were drying I took this six to this stage. They've gone through the grits from 60 to 120 to 220 all on belt. The corners of the handles were knocked off on a 60 grit spindle sander. The real dark rosewood and the two camel bone handles were also given a pretty good coat of superglue and allowed to dry overnight as they have open pores.

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Now everybody is caught up. The handles have been belt sanded up to 330 grit and the tangs and spines have been finished up to 600 grit.

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So they are ready for hand sanding. Sophie is not all that impressed she's seen it before:

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kitchen knife, Sandvik 1095 1mm (0.04") thickness @63RC 180mm (7") blade. Oopsie moment on the handle... Kintsukuroi

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Started the long awaited KMG second arm (for rests) mod. Nice thing will be the added 1.5" height too for my back. That's what I am hoping anyway.



Thanks again to all who have shared this mod. :thumbup:
 
Patrice Lemée;16552310 said:
Started the long awaited KMG second arm (for rests) mod. Nice thing will be the added 1.5" height too for my back. That's what I am hoping anyway.



Thanks again to all who have shared this mod. :thumbup:
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Most excellent! Larry
 
Getting stock built for my third show this year. First week of December and my favorite show on the calendar. A few days fishing along the coast before the holiday crowds swarm in and then a hectic one day show.












 
Sitting here staring at this thing trying to figure out how to go about it lol. Lots of firsts for me.
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I decided I wasn't getting anywhere staring at it so I just jumped in and did it. I can honestly say these are probably the cleanest grinds coming off my grinder. Not that that's saying much. Hand sanding now and I think it came out pretty good.
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Here some of my handle material "give it a try" stuff fro. The ICCE show. I don't seem to have the time lately but boy do I have the material!😜
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This grind dis coming out on point. Nice and clean.....this has NOT been easy
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Have a great Sunday All!
 
josh81 said:
I decided I wasn't getting anywhere staring at it so I just jumped in and did it. I can honestly say these are probably the cleanest grinds coming off my grinder. Not that that's saying much. Hand sanding now and I think it came out pretty good.
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Josh81, That's very nice grinding and an original design. Good work...be sure and post a photo of the finished knife. Larry
 
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Josh81, That's very nice grinding and an original design. Good work...be sure and post a photo of the finished knife. Larry
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Thank you Larry I appreciate that. I'll definitely post some pictures.

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josh81 said:
I decided I wasn't getting anywhere staring at it so I just jumped in and did it. I can honestly say these are probably the cleanest grinds coming off my grinder. Not that that's saying much. Hand sanding now and I think it came out pretty good.
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Totally stealing that profile... sorry.
 
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