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

Rhino, that is one fantastic user knife. Love the finger grooved handle. Looks great to use with both grips without fatigue.
 
A lot of first for me on this knife....One of the them is a hamon.

As I was sanding the blade it poked its head out...so I went in and tried to get more of it to show.

It is what it is....:)

Not much of a camera man ;)

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It is what it is! Boy, try to curb your enthusiasm... that looks like it will be an amazing hamon if polished out to show all the details. And your first! Way to go.
 
Adam- You suck!!! :eek: :D That hamon has CRAZY potential!!! The knife is coming together great! :cool:



Here was my weld bench at the end of the day last night. I was very worn out at that point.... :)

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Oh yeah, the Paranee Bowies. What a monster project. Hope you're not burning out on that.
When I first started working with 52100 bearings (2" rollers) I tried to heat one up and forge it by hand with a 10 lb. sledge... roflmao! Five heats and I'd made a little flat spot on the surface... that stuff is quite hard to forge, and I've forged many knives from DHIII W2 rounds by hand.

If I lived closer I'd be happy to come over and help with getting your hammers in service- that's what I call fun. But alas, gas is not cheap and time more expensive yet.
 
PoolQs said:
Rhino, that is one fantastic user knife. Love the finger grooved handle. Looks great to use with both grips without fatigue.
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Pool,
Thanks for the kind words. Blades profiles are important of course but if the handle isn't comfortable people won't use the knife, many without even realizing why?
Many of my knives are custom fitted to the customers mitt. When I build a knife for a couple to both use in the kitchen I size the handle in between there two hands.
 
My humble little shop, it was built from scrap material. The hospital I work at did a renovation, much of the material for the renovation came shipped in crates that were made of 2x4's, 2x6's, sheets of 1/2 plywood, and luan. They were just going to throw it all away, but I got permission to take it home. I hauled the stuff home for a month, ended up pulling 1 1/2, 5 gal. bucket of nails out of it before I could use the stuff. But it was worth it. I know its a little tight, but it works. When it's nice out, I can take my grinder outside and put in my Rockwell Jaw horse, it works great like that. Just waiting on Aldos to send me some steel, and I can get started.

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Adam- You suck!!! That hamon has CRAZY potential!!! The knife is coming together great!



Here was my weld bench at the end of the day last night. I was very worn out at that point....
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Nice work Mr.Wheeler! I was wondering some things though: what steel are those and what size stock where they when you started? how long did it take to forge all those out? did you use a power hammer as well as a press?
Thanks(I'm amazed at how close to finished your knives are after forging!)
Daniel
 
The last of the double edged shankyness for a while...


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^ Very cool! :cool:


I just helped unload a new compressor... yay!!! My old one has been down and i'm really happy to have it.

 
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My humble little shop, it was built from scrap material. The hospital I work at did a renovation, much of the material for the renovation came shipped in crates that were made of 2x4's, 2x6's, sheets of 1/2 plywood, and luan. They were just going to throw it all away, but I got permission to take it home. I hauled the stuff home for a month, ended up pulling 1 1/2, 5 gal. bucket of nails out of it before I could use the stuff. But it was worth it. I know its a little tight, but it works. When it's nice out, I can take my grinder outside and put in my Rockwell Jaw horse, it works great like that. Just waiting on Aldos to send me some steel, and I can get started.

Cool shop, well built and organized, great use of space and materials, looking forward to seeing your knives.
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Whewe... ;) :)

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Then, just in case you haven't had enough hammering and you notice a 4" long piece of 1" round W1 laying on the bench... you decide you should see how big of an integral you can forge out of it. :rolleyes: :foot: LOL

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That's quite the delivery job Daniel! Is that a 60gallon?


Cool story & build JT! :)


Awesome knife Nathan. :cool: :thumbup:
 
Mark Behnke said:
jtwodogs said:
My humble little shop, it was built from scrap material. The hospital I work at did a renovation, much of the material for the renovation came shipped in crates that were made of 2x4's, 2x6's, sheets of 1/2 plywood, and luan. They were just going to throw it all away, but I got permission to take it home. I hauled the stuff home for a month, ended up pulling 1 1/2, 5 gal. bucket of nails out of it before I could use the stuff. But it was worth it. I know its a little tight, but it works. When it's nice out, I can take my grinder outside and put in my Rockwell Jaw horse, it works great like that. Just waiting on Aldos to send me some steel, and I can get started.

Cool shop, well built and organized, great use of space and materials, looking forward to seeing your knives.
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Jtwodogs,
I agree that the shop looks great! That's about all the space you really need for a one man shop. lets see some knives?
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Nick, it is a 60 gallon and over 10 scfm. :D

It was one heck of a delivery job, I live on a mountain way off the road... they had to drive this off road style forklift about 1/2 mile down my road as the truck was too big. My shop door wasn't tall enough for the compressor and pallet to fit so we wound up lifting it in by hand.


Awesome work everyone! I am really enjoying this thread. Here's a few more pics of work done this week.







I finished up some Keychain Tools in Electric Blue and Green,




Started a massive chopper in .36" 5160...




Yes, I am a zombie.




Compound grind and swedge grind roughed in on Titanium friction folder blades... I wanted to try a new style of swedge. The one on the left is a hollow to hollow.




Massive Ti Dagger roughed in... I got carried away finishing the blade and need to work on the handle! Coffin handle/Bayonet Grind

 
Salem- I missed your post before--- Thanks man! I appreciate that! :) The 100# LG is raring to go... I just need to commit to a spot for it and cut a hole in the concrete. I've even got some custom made parts for it that came from Sid's machinist/welder. What I really need is more time and to win the lottery! ;) :D No burnout on the JoeP project--- at least not so far with the forging. :D I think I have an addiction to hot steel, hammers, and anvils. :eek: :D Now ask me after I've been eating G10 dust for a couple weeks and my answer might be slightly different. ;) LMAO :)

Daniel F- Awesome new toy! So it's powering up a Barrel Blaster right??? Last night I went and looked at your forum to find more pics of the delivery. That's awesome they were so helpful! I've had delivery drivers that didn't even want to have to back their rig up, let alone help me with anything! :grumpy: Shoot, when I was living at my folks place a driver insisted his truck wouldn't back up to the shop. I told him my dad was a local haul truck driver, and that he backed up a double trailer feed truck EVERY FRIGGING DAY, and he still wouldn't do it. Glad you got some hard working delivery guys! :)

You've been one busy boy my man!!! :eek: Most impressive!!! :cool: :thumbup:


Daniel (chknifemaker)- I wasn't sure if you were serious or ribbing me about my verbose videos... :confused: :foot:
 
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