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Blade for my collaboration with Adam Desrosiers is finished.
11'' blade with integral guard.
11'' blade with integral guard.
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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: 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.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!
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I finally have something to say. 
From Eric Kidwell, with help from Patrice Lemée (hope I got that right) comes my first fixture.
A file guide in the style (permission granted of course) of Bruce Bump. Can't wait to use it. Thanks Eric and Patrice!
From Eric Kidwell, with help from Patrice Lemée (hope I got that right) comes my first fixture.
A file guide in the style (permission granted of course) of Bruce Bump. Can't wait to use it. Thanks Eric and Patrice!
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My pleasure Anthony.I finally have something to say.
From Eric Kidwell, with help from Patrice Lemée (hope I got that right) comes my first fixture.
A file guide in the style (permission granted of course) of Bruce Bump. Can't wait to use it. Thanks Eric and Patrice!
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that looks like a good guide. Wide enough for filing guard slots as well
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Since a lot of you guys don't go to the Custom forum, I'll throw a couple of the final pics of the Khuk up on here. (if you're interested in seeing them all, there is a thread in the Custom forum).
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That's awesome man! Congratulations. I'd like to know what you think of it once you've had some time to use it. So many belt choices, it'll take a while to figure out what you like I'd bet. Should be fun.
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Thanks Ron.
So my Mom dropped by yesterday with a package marked Kidwell... What the heck is this?
Well, it sure made my day when I opened it up! A kickass carbide guide and an awesome letter from our very own Eric Kidwell.
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AWESOME!!! Thank you very much Eric!!!
Here's what I'm putting together at the moment. A long and lean W2 pig-sticker.
These pics were taken right after the (hopefully) last etch... I don't have the patience to do as many etch/polish cycles as I used to.:foot:
Part of the reason I wanted to post these pics, is to reinforce what I have said many times on here: that it is VERY important that you really learn to see what you have in your blade as far as activity in the hamon goes right off the grinder at a coarse grit...so you know if it's worth sanding, polishing, etc.
If you were to just dip this blade in Ferric Chloride to check the hamon, it would look very much like it does in these two pics (although this was a Vinegar etch). The line appears to be there, but not anything too exciting by most guy's standards.
But I could see what was really in there, so I knew it was worth pursuing. The white, whispy, cloud-like stuff is there, it just won't really be visible to most folks, until it's been properly etched and polished.
So my Mom dropped by yesterday with a package marked Kidwell... What the heck is this?
Well, it sure made my day when I opened it up! A kickass carbide guide and an awesome letter from our very own Eric Kidwell.
:thumbup: AWESOME!!!
Thank you very much Eric!!! Here's what I'm putting together at the moment. A long and lean W2 pig-sticker.
These pics were taken right after the (hopefully) last etch... I don't have the patience to do as many etch/polish cycles as I used to.:foot:Part of the reason I wanted to post these pics, is to reinforce what I have said many times on here: that it is VERY important that you really learn to see what you have in your blade as far as activity in the hamon goes right off the grinder at a coarse grit...so you know if it's worth sanding, polishing, etc.
If you were to just dip this blade in Ferric Chloride to check the hamon, it would look very much like it does in these two pics (although this was a Vinegar etch). The line appears to be there, but not anything too exciting by most guy's standards.
But I could see what was really in there, so I knew it was worth pursuing. The white, whispy, cloud-like stuff is there, it just won't really be visible to most folks, until it's been properly etched and polished.
Ground, hand-sanded, and handled this full tang sujihiki. It'll be done tomorrow and I need a reason for slicing some meats. Anyone have any good recipes?
That is beautiful! I'd love to have one in my kitchen.
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Thanks! Here it is finished up. Specs: ~193g, 280mm blade length with 41mm heel height. 52100, red/black G10 liners (red liners came out amber) and African blackwood scales.
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My pleasure Nick.
I'm sure you could make a better one but its the least I could do for all that you have taught me/us.
I'm sure you could make a better one but its the least I could do for all that you have taught me/us.
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Beautiful work @ Eric, Nick, Ian.
The last few days we have been doing more work on the paring knife. Here are the first rough prototypes of our paring knife in steel. We had a chance to use them over the weekend and have narrowed it down some more. We are in the process of tweaking the design further. The next prototype will look similar to the green handled one.
The last few days we have been doing more work on the paring knife. Here are the first rough prototypes of our paring knife in steel. We had a chance to use them over the weekend and have narrowed it down some more. We are in the process of tweaking the design further. The next prototype will look similar to the green handled one.
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Nick I alway like your "on the bench"-pics. There is usualy interesting stuff. Like the handle shape template etc.
Good idea!
Good idea!
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Nice parers North Arm. I need to make one of those badly. I'll keep my eyes on your progress. I'll be happy to make a final knife as nice as that green one.
Sweet rig Nick! Forgot to mention how amazing that headhunter is too.
I'll be happy to make a final knife as nice as that green one. Sweet rig Nick! Forgot to mention how amazing that headhunter is too.
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I can see inthe last pic that there are some clouds waiting to come out in that hamon, Nick. That's going to be nice. Score on the carbide guide!
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My son, Kevin and I have been busy despite the cold this winter. We have been working to upgrade the Sherline 5400 mini mill to 3 axis cnc. I put the table together and did the physical mounting of the monitor and the wiring; Kevin mounted the drives and took care of the programming. The kit, that came from Sherline was $1,000 complete other than the limit switches and the computer; which my son had half a dozen of them laying about. We have about $1,250 in the conversion. The build is fairly straight forward when it comes from Sherline. We could have gotten the parts a little cheaper but we did not want to botch the hook ups and play with the mountings.
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Blade for my collaboration with Adam Desrosiers is finished.
11'' blade with integral guard.
Great blade Erik, really looking forward to the completed piece!
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Can't remember if they were Sherline, but I was looking at the cnc conversion kits in the Grizzly catalog the other day. Should be a lot of fun Fred. Congrats on that. I bet you'll make some really neat stuff with it.