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

[JoshRG]

Impeccable as always JRG.

JRG, Fantastic presentation on your chef knife !!!
Well done!

Thank you gents! I anticipated this being a difficult build and it did not disappoint. Glad to know my brother, currently a culinary student, will put it to good use.

Blessings,
Joshua

 

[Coke]

The scales look better than I envisioned they would Adam. Great work. A lot of glare on the blade in that pic. Can't wait to see it all done, it will be a beautiful knife, my best hunting/skinner blade, and a ripper at that.. no pun intended.

 

[AVigil]

The scales look better than I envisioned they would Adam. Great work. A lot of glare on the blade in that pic. Can't wait to see it all done, it will be a beautiful knife, my best hunting/skinner blade, and a ripper at that.. no pun intended.

Thanks Coke,

At that time of day it was either glare or a reflection of me.
I chose glare

 

[Coke]

Thanks Coke,

At that time of day it was either glare or a reflection of me.
I chose glare

If it's the latter... boy you must be brilliant Adam.

 

[kuraki]

Trying out my new light tent.

 

[Kevin Powers]

Finished my first kitchen knife.

 

[kuraki]

Spent some time sawing today. Off to K&G on Monday. 24 full size redwood burl scale sets, another 25 shorter pieces for combining with other stuff. 26 figured black walnut blocks, 16 buckeye burl blocks, some with voids to resin cast, 8 lacewood scale sets and some burl wood blocks of unknown species. Got some spalted maple to saw yet.

 

[Brock Cutlery]

Trying out my new light tent.

Looks pretty nice John. Pics of your lighting setup?

 

[Brock Cutlery]

Finished my first kitchen knife.

Looks really nice Kevin!

 

[kuraki]

Looks pretty nice John. Pics of your lighting setup?

If I get something picture worthy accomplished today I'll do that.

 

[East Branch Knives]

... 16 buckeye burl blocks, some with voids to resin cast,

John, do you resin cast to fill the voids in addition to stabilizing? Or does the resin casting function as its own stabilization? If you do both, which do you do first?

 

[kuraki]

John, do you resin cast to fill the voids in addition to stabilizing? Or does the resin casting function as its own stabilization? If you do both, which do you do first?

Stabilise first, then cast the resin in the voids. The casting resin is too viscous to penetrate wood so both steps are necessary. I wouldn't cast voids in wood that is not stabilized because swelling with moisture would likely break the bond in the void.

 

[luciusx5]

Small skinning knife for my son.













Length 6.5 inches
Blade Cutting Length 2.75 inches
Purpleheart and Ebony
White G10 Liner
Nickel Silver and Bone spacers
Nickel Silver Pins and Thong tube

Knife has a lot of flaws in it but I think my son is proud to have my first knife. Learned a bunch on this one to make the next one better.

 

[wkfl]

I'd def be proud too, nice job!

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Just got this beautiful piece of machinery from a member here for one hell of a price. Not gonna name any names out of respect for him but I can't wait to get it together.

 

[kuraki]

I was putting some stuff together to show a prospective customer tomorrow and thought why not finish this field knife. I got done hand sanding and then I thought would that be cool with some serrations? And before I could think it through I had a diamond file and the first notch laid out. Kinda committed at that point. Never done them before but I think I figured out a process.

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Looks good John I like it

 

[mknife]

these days the cold in the shop is so much. a little wip for this new blade.

 

[J. Rosa]

Really nice work mknife!
John, the serrations came out great.
I'm just finishing up 2 and starting to tool up for a folder.

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[kuraki]

JR - Thanks!

What kind of adhesive/resin did you use to set the twine on those? I need to try one I really like the way that big one looks. Grippy.

Mknife that checkering is outstanding! Did you use some kind of guide with a checkering file? Are you going to point them up a bit with a triangle file or leave as is? 30 LPI?