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

[Ocelot85]

Negative. It’s now sanded well enough for heat treat. Scales are %90 shaped. Hopefully I’ll get to heat treat over the weekend.

How are you going to heat treat it with the handle scales attached?

 

[Taqtaq]

How are you going to heat treat it with the handle scales attached?

Those are undersized dry fit pins.

 

[Ocelot85]

Those are undersized dry fit pins.

Oh, alright. Hard to tell that it wasn't pinned and epoxied from the picture. Figured I'd ask stranger things have happened on here.

 

[Old oak]

12th sharp object I’ve forged so far since I started a few years back. Walnut/file, bird/trout knife. Worked pretty well skinning and caping a big 11 pt white tail last winter too. Picture is a little deceiving but the blade is about 4 inches.

 

[Old oak]

Well guess I can’t post pictures... oh well. Figure that out later.

 

[weo]

Well guess I can’t post pictures... oh well. Figure that out later.

Have you read: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/sticky-threads-all-the-good-info-you-want-in-one-place.1052730/ ?

The very first link is:
How to post a photo
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1126014-Attach-Images-to-Your-Threads-Comments

 

[Old oak]

Haha nope slightly internet stupid...

 

[torqueguy]

On the bench

Forget what wood this is. 2.5” Scandi

 

[torqueguy]

 

[HSC ///]

Visiting France for 5 weeks, a chef had purchased a knife from me earlier this year and then ordered another.
Yesterday I met him and personally delivered the 2nd knife to him and enjoyed a nice dinner, Brazilian Japanese fusion.

 

[HSC ///]

This is a 210mm Petty made of W2 carbon steel. The handle is spalted Jatoba and the saya is Indian Ebony.

nice one, I like 210mm petty size.
how did you keep it straight out of the quench? or how did you straighten afterwards?

 

[Storm W]

Visiting France for 5 weeks, a chef had purchased a knife from me earlier this year and then ordered another.
Yesterday I met him and personally delivered the 2nd knife to him and enjoyed a nice dinner, Brazilian Japanese fusion.

I'm jealous of both of you.

 

[Horsewright]

Two days ago:

The wife and I and our retired cowdog Canela took a little road trip. She said she was MAKING me take a day off.

It had been 16 years since we'd gone fishing.

Yesterday:

I haven't counted how many yet. Drilling tang holes today.

 

[OccamsBlade]

Last couple of custom jobbers I did recently. And one I was able to squeeze in during heat treats and long annealing sessions. Blades include D2 core, CTS-204P core, and 1095 core. All Suminagashi San-Mai from Dion Damascus. Have yet to work with his M4. Lovin the results.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I really like the look of your omote-suki (hollow grind on the bevel side). I have been tempted to do it but feared that I would grind too much through the suminagashi. Yours shows that a small amount of exposed core in some spots isn't at all a detraction.

Did you pre-forge the hollow, or only grind it in?

 

[torqueguy]

Found an old friend in the shop. Made that 30 years ago. Carried it in just about every steel, sugar and cement mill in our hemisphere. Carried it on board in my rolling briefcase.

 

[OccamsBlade]

I really like the look of your omote-suki (hollow grind on the bevel side). I have been tempted to do it but feared that I would grind too much through the suminagashi. Yours shows that a small amount of exposed core in some spots isn't at all a detraction.

Did you pre-forge the hollow, or only grind it in?

Thanks! Yeah, I was a bit nervous doing the hollow grind, haha. Mostly because it was my third time doing it. Not much you can do about how much of the core gets exposed I guess. Especially if it was hammered to thickness by hand, and my hammering skills can use some improvement.

Nope, just hammered it as flat as I could. I did think about doing that though. Probably would have kept more of the suminagashi doing so. Been thinking about making a set of sens for doing hollows. Would help a lot on single bevel hollow grinds as well. I get a bit of warping even when grinding slow and wet. I imagine you'd have more control with a sen as well. I'm always afraid I'm going to mess up the flats when grinding hollows.

 

[torqueguy]

Just discovered Pyinma Burl.

Nice stuff but very soft. This is after 10 coats of TruOil and its still sucking it up

 

[torqueguy]

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

Last couple of custom jobbers I did recently. And one I was able to squeeze in during heat treats and long annealing sessions. Blades include D2 core, CTS-204P core, and 1095 core. All Suminagashi San-Mai from Dion Damascus. Have yet to work with his M4. Lovin the results.

That is beautiful work. I checked out the website For the damascus and ordered a few pieces. How did you heat treat your blades? Thanks