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

[ten-six]

Thats a Curly Wharnecliff and my favorite pistol. 1949 Browning design built by Colt as the Woodsman 2nd gen. Gun is 70% machine made and something like 30% is hand fit and polished. New machines make more accurate stuff but old guns are slicker

I've got a second generation Woodsman and it's as crisp and smooth as ever. Love it!

 

[John Cahoon]

hats a Curly Wharnecliff and my favorite pistol. 1949 Browning design built by Colt as the Woodsman 2nd gen. Gun is 70% machine made and something like 30% is hand fit and polished.

My Dad had one, very old. My brother has it now, one of the best ever plinkers! Love it.

 

[torqueguy]

Got things coming off and going on the bench at the same time.

The Wharnecliff’s handle and scabbard are cut from one continuous board

 

[Carterwhopkins]

Here is a 248mm x 50mm chef knife made of differentially hardened W2 that I just finished. The bolster is brass snakeskin from FatCarbon, main handle is gaboon ebony with brass spacers. The saya is quilted maple with a brass pin.

Thanks for taking a look.

 

[torqueguy]

Stunning.

Here is a 248mm x 50mm chef knife made of differentially hardened W2 that I just finished. The bolster is brass snakeskin from FatCarbon, main handle is gaboon ebony with brass spacers. The saya is quilted maple with a brass pin.

Thanks for taking a look.

 

[nsm]

Little mishap on the mill. We sheared a 15" diameter shaft on the pinion stand. The guys did an awesome job to replace the end and getting us back up and running.

 

[daizee]

Little mishap on the mill. We sheared a 15" diameter shaft on the pinion stand. The guys did an awesome job to replace the end and getting us back up and running.

*blink*blink*

 

[DanF]

Little mishap on the mill. We sheared a 15" diameter shaft on the pinion stand. The guys did an awesome job to replace the end and getting us back up and running.View attachment 1154963 View attachment 1154965 View attachment 1154966

C'mon now, that's really an anvil----er, right?!

 

[torqueguy]

This is the 6th coat of truoil drying on the amboyna. I bought it because It wasn’t stabilized. I stabilized it myself soaking it in diluted truoil in mineral spirits. Odorless to keep the wife in check

 

[John Cahoon]

How I spent July 4th Weekend by Johnny Cahoon: I'm really impressed with Padauk, it's sooo red with nice flowing grain, These are wips with a ways to go yet, the fronts at 1200 and the body's at 150.
I guess it's redder in person, and will likely darken with age:

The bigger one is nickel silver, bubinga and ebony with a forked tail. Nothing's glued up yet and won't be for a day or two, but both promise a tight fitup.
John Cahoon

 

[PEU]

Takefu V-Toku2 sanmai 8" blade, stabilized Radal burl, corby bolts and vegetable tan leather sheath, part of a set with a BBQ fork.

Pablo

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

Just finished this one up. OAL 9" with a 4-3/8 blade. Alabama Damascus steel blade. Elk antler, nickel silver bolster with micarta spaces, and same micarta material for pommel. Bronze pin.

 

[DeadboxHero]

Rex121 glued up

 

[weo]

Not sure if this qualifies for a shop, but it's all I have available right now. Cut up my burl, and now have 738+ blocks drying.

Anyone interested in a lifetime supply of spalted maple?

 

[torqueguy]

Finished this one a week ago. 90mm Puronvarsi flat ground bull nose. Handle is Karelian Curly Birch. Extreme grade. Ebony scabbard doesn’t take TruOil well and wax isn’t enough.

So, I’ve worked out that a little johnson’s paste wax, a little mineral spirits and a splash of linseed oil in a dedicated shot glass makes for a good marinade. No ice is necessary. The ebony absorbed 10 light coats of it for several days and now just buffed with white paste. Still warm

 

[torqueguy]

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[flatblackcapo]

Thanks Stacy!

Not many people overseas know that I make all my knives in a 5th floor, in downtown Buenos Aires... It was my office and at the time I had 11 people working for me (selling welding alloys to local factories). Now I'm alone, the office was adapted to be a shop, but the floor with oak parquet flooring remains...
The only thing I can't do for sure is forging...

[edit] Time ago, a local beer company placed an order for 30 knives and part of the deal was to allow them to make a photo session making one of the knives, a crew spent a day taking photos, you can see them here: https://peu.net/cuchillos/index.php?/category/12

Pablo

Great photos!
It looks like we have similar organizational skills.

 

[torqueguy]

 

[torqueguy]

I like that more than Quilmes

Thanks Stacy!

Not many people overseas know that I make all my knives in a 5th floor, in downtown Buenos Aires... It was my office and at the time I had 11 people working for me (selling welding alloys to local factories). Now I'm alone, the office was adapted to be a shop, but the floor with oak parquet flooring remains...
The only thing I can't do for sure is forging...

[edit] Time ago, a local beer company placed an order for 30 knives and part of the deal was to allow them to make a photo session making one of the knives, a crew spent a day taking photos, you can see them here: https://peu.net/cuchillos/index.php?/category/12

Pablo

 

[allenkey]

Picked up alot more curly maple with some fantastic figure. Enough for probably 100 knife handles haha. So glad I picked up a bandsaw - no more thin boards from woodcraft.com praying they send me nice figure. Local hardwood place sells hardly any exotics but alot of this really nice curly maple. I am hooked on this stuff.

Also salvaged some lilac wood after a neighbor's gargantuan silver maple wiped out all of our lilacs lol. Maybe in a few years I'll have it stabilized and I'll share with you guys ! If it doesn't all split apart anyway... It started checking as soon as I cut it!