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

Be nice to your mother in law, you never know what she's hiding in her basement! Mine just gave me this pile of wood that includes lacewood, a cherry burl, birdseye maple, and whatever the red and purple wood is.

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It doesn't have much figure but I think I'm going to use it in stacked handles for color contrast. It feels dry enough to stabilize.
 
Finished up a simple kydex sheath for the first knife I made:


Filing on this hunter:


And a couple others in the work. One is ready for hand sanding prior to HT, the other I'm still figuring out where I want to put the plunge line:
 
kuraki said:
I left photobucket, tried Tinypic, they reuse URLs so sometimes your linked images change to hot chicks on corvettes or whatever. Now I'm using sli.mg. It's very streamlined, I'm much happier there.



I've been finishing these three. Need to make sheaths and get them out the door.
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Is that middle knife sold? I'm very interested!
 
That one I made for someone as a thank you for finding me a very large cherry burl. We can't discuss sales in this forum, feel free to email me.
 
Putting the finishing touches on these three before they get an edge. One more chef knife to finish that I have glued up and then back to smaller stuff.
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Some AEBL and brown micarta and black G10

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After a long hiatus, I'm finally back at it. This one is almost ready for glue-up.
.125" CTS-XHP @ 61.5 Rc w/ Amboyna Burl. Tapered tang and hand finished.

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My first knife using stock removal. O1 tool steel and birds eye mapple. It is almost done, I will do the handle finish (dye + oil) this WE. Pretty happy to how it turned out with one exception:
The practice knife I had made with mild steel looked great thanks to the dark handle and dark tinted epoxy which was blending well with the handle. It made the filework looks really nice. On this one with light wood, I haven't managed to make the color of the epoxy match (it is white) and when sanding the filework te epoxy got tinted grey by metal dust.
I had to resand the filework after assembly as I did the final shaping of the handle after gluing. Not sure what I should have done differently.
 
Your pins are rather wonky. Besides not being centered thy come out in different places then where thy start on the opposite side. How did you heat treat it?
For your first knife it looks good, we all have to start somewhere.
 
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