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Nice design Adam! Looks awesome.
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https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Filtration system for the new Mattison grinder. 2,500 gallon tank and 300 gpm pumps.
Thank youGoo job Josh. Looks great.
Thank you I appreciate that. I wouldn't consider it a mirror finish. It's 1000 grit on the bevels and 2000 on the flats. It took me forever but mainly because I'm not good at hand finishes yet.Josh, excellent job on the finish. I have to say, I'm not too crazy about mirror finishes on knife blades. But that's going to be a nice looking knife. Just starting out I can appreciate how much work went into it to get that finish. I can barely get my grind marks straight. And when I do I somehow scratch the blade, and mess it up. Well done.
Hey guys, first time posting here. Here is my first kitchen knife (second knife ever, 1st knife from my shop without my teachers help) and wa style handle. 5.5" Petty knife ground from .135" 52100 heat treated to 62 by Peters. .008" at the choil and .005" everyone else along the edge as I found thinning the choil area was difficult for me without getting an over grind in the middle of the blade. Full flat grind with slight convex added in using a soft platen liner. I watched Mr. Harners sweeping plunge video on youtube 5 or 6 times before grinding this. Rounded spine and choil. First attempt at a belt finish, my first knife was hand rubbed. Handle is African blackwood, aluminum, Osage put together with the dowel method, tang hole filed out with needle files and tang burnt in, will be epoxying in tonight. Handle hand sanded with 1 coat of Tung oil finish on the Osage only and buffed by hand for quite a while with denim, will probably wax it tonight. No logo yet as I don't have one or an etcher, knife has yet to be sharpened (it will go to the wet stones after handle install). Thanks for looking.
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Well here she is. By far not the nicest knife on the forum but I feel it's a really good representation of where I'm at skill wise. My goal was to push myself on this one and basically the entire knife was made of firsts for me. I'm really proud of this one.![]()
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Thank you Brock!Very well done Josh!
Well here she is. By far not the nicest knife on the forum but I feel it's a really good representation of where I'm at skill wise. My goal was to push myself on this one and basically the entire knife was made of firsts for me. I'm really proud of this one.![]()
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Thanks Jim I appreciate the compliments!VERY VERY NICE!!! I like EVERYTHING about it. Great work
-Jim