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FredyCro said:
@AVigil My girlfriend is happy about the new addition to our kitchen table. :)

I will keep this at home for finishing handles after work at home.

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Yes, thanks @AVigil mine arrived today also. Seems really handy.
 
@FredyCro @Richard338

Great! I use mine on every knife.

When you go to hand sand a blade, just put a piece of flat stock or wood in the jaws, clamp the blade to it and you can angle it anyway to want while sanding.
 
AVigil said:
@FredyCro @Richard338

Great! I use mine on every knife.

When you go to hand sand a blade, just put a piece of flat stock or wood in the jaws, clamp the blade to it and you can angle it anyway to want while sanding.
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I like it, soft jaws and all, makes a lot of sense and is quite sturdy. I think I need to grease the joint ball and the screws some.

One day I will make a dedicated vice, but for now now this will suffice.
 
I bought some Parser plates to cut slipjoint shields so I've been playing with them. While working on two new folders I managed to snap a slipjoint spring on a Zulu spear "adjusting" it so lucky me I get to re-make that part at some point. I'm forging ahead with a nice little single blade trapper in really nice stag, then I'll come back to the Zulu later. I've asked myself why I'm not just making fixed blades so many times these past few months but chasing perfection on subtle aspects of these things is pretty satisfying and will keep me occupied for years.

Other than that, just procrastinating on cleaning up and selling two folders...something I told myself I would do before I started shopping for a surface grinder this winter.
 
another oversized handle skinner for a Paul Bunyan sized Minnesota hunter. AEBL (62 hrc), Chakte Viga handles with white liners and corbys. First time I have tried to accomplish a non-flat grind. the grind line is not perfect .... but I done think the user will notice the difference.... I still need to make a sheath - but that will need to wait until after the season - which is imminent.
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15N20 RHC 62-63, 9” tip to heel, just over 13” oal. Spine .063, ebony/oyster pearl kirinite/walnut/copper, doweled Wa handle (“Americanized” Wa for larger hands).
 
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Finishing off this stag trapper. Making or ordering a headspinner for pins as these were a bit beyond my peening/stress threshold and I may hold off finishing these pins until then. (they look better here than in real life and I question the full strength of the peen as I always fear cracking stag) Absurdly nice stag. I took half a patter off a Tony Bose two blade pattern he shared. Overall very happy with how this turned out. Continually getting better at different nuances of slipjoints, further down the rabbit hole.

154CM
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Made this one for the gf. She asked if I could make her a new knife after seeing that piece of wood. :p

Blade is 3/32" 154CM @ 61HRC, 3-7/8" from front of bolster to tip, 8"OAL
Bolsters and pins are black paper Micarta
Handle is "red" dyed & stabilized Box Elder burl with white G10 spacers and SS pins +tube

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(forgot to clean the dust out of the lanyard hole before taking pictures)

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7” tip to bolster, 1.9” spine to edge, 11” oal , FF chisel grind. The wood has an irredesence I wasn’t successful in capturing in the photo. Haven’t sharpened it yet but it is already wicked sharp.
 
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Broke a slipjoint spring "adjusting" it, re-made that.
Finally going VFD after 15 years so shopping motors, VFDs and figuring what else I might need to retrofit my 3 pulley system to VFD drive.

I also took some of the old rag micarta that I extracted from a gear and inlaid a gear shield for a zulu pattern knife that is up next:
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