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

J. Hoffman said:
I found a sweet deal on some turning spindles of Redheart and some boards of Purpleheart. I cut the turning blanks into blocks and sanded them down. The boards I'm going to let dry as they are. I've never worked with either, but I really love the color of the Redheart. I should get 4-5 scales from each block.
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I did a stack of my culinary knives with Purple Heart & Red heart about a year or so ago. The Purple in particular would burn and discolor if I got it even slightly too hot by leaning into the belt or with a dull belt.

Use fresh belts at a little slower speed on these woods and you will be fine. They are handsome handle woods.
 
Hey guys,
I ordered a new grinder to replace my NWG and figured I'd build a new bench to hold it and a few other things.
I may have gotten a bit carried away.
I need to get a service providers membership so I can sell the NWG to make room for a LG power hammer.

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Eric, can't you sell the NWG with a gold membership? Unless I missed something (possible) you don't need the service provider membership to sell a used grinder.

You gonna have 220v on that bench? Very nice btw!
 
Dude Eric that bench is pretty amazing. Would probably take me weeks to do that.
 
Thanks for the compliments guys.
The bench is wired for 220 already. The bench took all weekend including some late hours but I'm happy with it.
It's purpose built, correct hight to the center of the wheel of the TW-90.:D
 
Nice to see the thread liven back up a bit. This is a commission for a very patient local deer hunter. He wanted a spruced up sharpfinger, so this what I came up with:

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GHEzell said:
I think, somewhere back around page 8 of this thread I posted these after forging to shape, finished them up yesterday. Two patternwelded fillet blades, 8" and 11" cutting edges, the small is a 300ish layer ladder pattern, the longer one is viking style...:)
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They are both 3/32" thick at the ricassos with some serious distal taper, and flex well (I'd call them a medium flex). They both picked up some negative sori in the quench but I'm happy with them even with the recurve. The customer wanted finish bare blades, he'll be putting the handles on them.

Now on to a patternwelded broadsax, my next project...
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Both are amazing...and I love the Viking style pattern on the big boy!
 
North Arm Knives said:
Here are some photos of our shop in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada. We are a new knife maker! We've got some stock of our first models now so the machines are silent this week as we are focusing on marketing and getting our name out.
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Hey North Arm!
Looks like a sweet shop! You need to make sure you upgrade to a 'knifemaker' membership before posting too much, as the mods will have words with you otherwise because you're specifically talking about selling knives professionally.

An another note: I'm just about to setup a new shop and have been looking for a good sandblaster/compressor combo... What model compressor/sandblaster have you got there? Are you happy with the pair?

My current shop has a 16CFM@90PSI 80 gallon compressor that handles sandblasting just fine, but I'm trying to work out if something smaller will work for the new shop.

Thanks!
 
No doubt!

Eric- That's one of the coolest looking workbenches I've ever seen :eek: :cool: :thumbup:--- and that's coming from a guy who has read through hundreds of copies of WOOD, American Woodworker, Fine Woodworking, etc.


Those fillet blades are awesome! :thumbup:
 
aarongough said:
Hey North Arm!
Looks like a sweet shop! You need to make sure you upgrade to a 'knifemaker' membership before posting too much, as the mods will have words with you otherwise because you're specifically talking about selling knives professionally.

An another note: I'm just about to setup a new shop and have been looking for a good sandblaster/compressor combo... What model compressor/sandblaster have you got there? Are you happy with the pair?

My current shop has a 16CFM@90PSI 80 gallon compressor that handles sandblasting just fine, but I'm trying to work out if something smaller will work for the new shop.

Thanks!
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Hey Aaron!

Thanks. I checked out your website, Cool steel testing video! I just paid for the upgrade to "knife maker" this morning.

The compressor is a 3hp campbell hausfeld 10.3 cfm @ 90 psi 60 gallon. The blast cabinet is a"power" it is a made in china knock off of a higher end unit. The compressor does ok. It keeps up fairly well but if we are blasting for long periods it tends to be running a lot. How much blasting to you do?
 
Patrice, if you win the lottery I'll work for free.

Nick, thanks for the compliment. I seem to remember a post in which you stated that you built a Banjo. I would love to see it!
 
Strigamort said:
Nice work Ian. If you get time, check out the Fiddleback F2. Another SF influenced blade.

Glad to see you around btw.
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Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm not a huge fan of the original sharpfinger, although I can see why many are. Not the biggest fan of trailing points in general, but I'm not going to deny a customer the knife they want. This group of locals all carry sharpfingers of some flavor, and I don't see myself changing any of their minds on it.

If anything, I respect the fact that all of these guys use the heck out of these slim pointed knives and not one of them has broken a tip.

North Arm Knives said:
Hey Aaron!

Thanks. I checked out your website, Cool steel testing video! I just paid for the upgrade to "knife maker" this morning.

The compressor is a 3hp campbell hausfeld 10.3 cfm @ 90 psi 60 gallon. The blast cabinet is a"power" it is a made in china knock off of a higher end unit. The compressor does ok. It keeps up fairly well but if we are blasting for long periods it tends to be running a lot. How much blasting to you do?
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Good call on the membership. You can't possibly imagine how well it will pay off if you utilize it. Good group of folks here... customers and makers.

Don't forget to change your user group, so you go orange like the rest of us. :)
 
North Arm Knives said:
Hey Aaron!

Thanks. I checked out your website, Cool steel testing video! I just paid for the upgrade to "knife maker" this morning.

The compressor is a 3hp campbell hausfeld 10.3 cfm @ 90 psi 60 gallon. The blast cabinet is a"power" it is a made in china knock off of a higher end unit. The compressor does ok. It keeps up fairly well but if we are blasting for long periods it tends to be running a lot. How much blasting to you do?
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Good stuff!

I don't do a *huge* amount of blasting, maybe 30-40 minutes or so every few weeks. But enough that I know I'm going to need a largish compressor. Good to hear your 10CFM one works well!

Where did you buy the campbell hausfeld from? I only seem to find king and dewalt compressors around here (or no-name versions).
 
Eric Kidwell said:
Hey guys,
I ordered a new grinder to replace my NWG and figured I'd build a new bench to hold it and a few other things.
I may have gotten a bit carried away.
I need to get a service providers membership so I can sell the NWG to make room for a LG power hammer.

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What's the purpose behind the different width spacers on the top shelf ?
 
Hey Sam,
The spaces are for my different tooling arms. The larger spaces can be used for whatever, steel, handle material etc.
 
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