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

[DustinY]

Quick test etch. I was hoping for something a little different with the dimples I drilled in the billet.

DAMN, I like it though. Super unique and gorgeous pattern. Wow.

 

[John Cahoon]

Here's my latest tribute to old Horace Kephart, a custom job in 1/8" 80CRV2 and Ironwood, with convex grinds above and below. In the photo the handle's sitting at 400 grit, it's now at 1200 and I started oiling tonight, final touchups and off to it's new home. It was near sharp already and I just touched it with diamond and stone and wow it's sharp, I suppose I could call it a convex edge. The blade is 4.9" and handle is 5".

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

Another little Sgian Dubh in the works.

 

[HSC ///]

a few recent Z wear kitchen knives

 

[CThompson]

Taking a production break to do some much needed shop maintenance, cleaning and reconfiguring. First step was to build a grinding room to control dust.
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What size is that wheel? I like it!

 

[E.Carlson]

What size is that wheel? I like it!

It's a Beaumont 14"

 

[Scaniaman]

H HSC /// They all look great, but on the bottom one I have to say you Really nailed the profile. It looks excellent!

 

[HSC ///]

H HSC /// They all look great, but on the bottom one I have to say you Really nailed the profile. It looks excellent!

Thanks very much
I’m sort of a spontaneous maker and while I use some guidelines I rarely use a pattern. Most knives are a little bit different and usually one of a kind

That specific one just went to a chef back east

 

[Kevin Kf knives]

Ended up putting a curly mango handle on it that I got from Mr. Greenberg himself.

 

[Reuben Kruger]

I have a few things going on at the moment.

First of all, here are a few WIP pictures of a Uitility/Hunting Knife hand sanded to 240 grit before HT. 14C28N stainless steel, 220mm OAL (About 8.6" for you imperial people... ).

I also had a go at making mokume gane for the first time. I made it from a stack of 10 R2 coins (Nickel plated copper). I just hammered it a few times to set the weld, squared it off and then ground away all the little cracks and inclusions. I etched it with a vinegar-salt solution and a car battery charger. Here is the end result. (This is a test piece btw)

Thanks for looking at my beginner work. Please comment with suggestions to make it better.

Reuben

 

[daizee]

Practicing my heat-and-beat on coil spring pieces (more pix in the gallery):

 

[DustinY]

Lots of progress on the KITH knife Hopefully it turns out decent enough to enter

Anyone realize how much material gets removed during hand sanding? Do you guys compensate for this? How do you manage this?

 

[Reuben Kruger]

It would be interesting to wheigh the knife before and after hand sanding. You didn't perhaps do that?

 

[daizee]

Lots of progress on the KITH knife Hopefully it turns out decent enough to enter

Anyone realize how much material gets removed during hand sanding? Do you guys compensate for this? How do you manage this?

Enough to change the balance?!?

 

[Reuben Kruger]

That would be nice...

 

[Hengelo_77]

If you HT without O2 it's just a little hardening skin you remove afterwards. Can't imagine is changing the balance.
The handle scales ad weight and change balance to

 

[DustinY]

Enough to change the balance?!?

not that much, just enough to realize the thickness change on the edge.


I didn’t weigh it, but I’ll weigh this vs an unprocessed blank.

 

[daizee]

not that much, just enough to realize the thickness change on the edge.


I didn’t weigh it, but I’ll weigh this vs an unprocessed blank.

I've hand-sanded a lot of knives, never thought it would be a weighable difference vs. everything else that goes on. If your block isn't rigid or you roll over near the edge, you can definitely see more change than is really representative. I suspect if your grind went higher, your sanding angle would have been lower and spared the edge some. Tho thin is good (to a point). And THAT would change the balance much more than just the surface prep.

 

[DustinY]

I've hand-sanded a lot of knives, never thought it would be a weighable difference vs. everything else that goes on. If your block isn't rigid or you roll over near the edge, you can definitely see more change than is really representative. I suspect if your grind went higher, your sanding angle would have been lower and spared the edge some. Tho thin is good (to a point). And THAT would change the balance much more than just the surface prep.

I do have a rigid block, but sometimes I use a 70 duro block that I intermittently used (although the results aren’t as good (definitely need to save that for finishing.).


I might be going over the edge but I really does remove a lot of surface material (you take all the grind lines out, and depending what grit you stop at - 220 for me which is way to high, I have trizact belts, I could have gone up, but didn’t want to thin the edge even more).

The edge was .01-.09 and right now I’d guess it’s around .007-.006 which seems dramatic to me, it also takes me a ripping long time to hand sand, I suspect maybe my process is wrong somewhere, but removing all scratches before moving up seems to demand the length that I sand.

I plan to meet and have classes with makers around me and this will be a big area of focus for me, because I’ve Watched all the big videos and I can’t find what in my process is wrong.

 

[E.Carlson]

I took part in my first knife show over the weekend. The KGA Oklahoma custom knife show. Had a great time, got a chance to meet some other local makers and best of all I sold a bunch of knives! Already looking forward to next year.
I forgot to take pictures but managed to get one with part of my table.