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Some work I did so far today:

This is a for fellow who buys my knives. He went elk hunting and said he butchered three elk with my hunter/skinner in CPMS35VN and it was still sharp. He brought me an elk tooth and wanted it as a pendant with the Tree of Like holding the tooth from the roots. I handmade this by sawing the basic shape from 12 gauge sheet and then hand filing and engraving.
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Also, we have some appraisal jobs for the Police Dept. I value the jewelry seized from drug dealers and other neer-do-wells.
One was a $59,000 Cartier bracelet, and another was a fake Cartier bracelet. There was a 425 gram 14K diamond pave necklace with 50 carats of diamonds, and another in silver with CZs ... $221,200.00 total appraised value for the 7 items, retail around $150,000.00, police auction value about $45,000.00. If it was melted down it would be $16,000 in gold and $18,000 in diamonds.

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Some work I did so far today:

This is a for fellow who buys my knives. He went elk hunting and said he butchered three elk with my hunter/skinner in CPMS35VN and it was still sharp. He brought me an elk tooth and wanted it as a pendant with the Tree of Like holding the tooth from the roots. I handmade this by sawing the basic shape from 12 gauge sheet and then hand filing and engraving.


Also, we have some appraisal jobs for the Police Dept. I value the jewelry seized from drug dealers and other neer-do-wells.
One was a $59,000 Cartier bracelet, and another was a fake Cartier bracelet. There was a 425 gram 14K diamond pave necklace with 50 carats of diamonds, and another in silver with CZs ... $221,200.00 total appraised value for the 7 items, retail around $150,000.00, police auction value about $45,000.00. If it was melted down it would be $16,000 in gold and $18,000 in diamonds.
That is an interesting side job!
 
Got it.

Yes, I see some really gaudy stuff. These are usually from drug dealers or want-a-be rappers who get in trouble. There was also a dentist who got caught selling cocaine who had on a 10 carat pinky ring and a diamond encrusted Rolex. They took it, his huge boat, and his oceanfront house as drug proceeds.
 
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Officially finished the gyuto. Driving tomorrow to the wedding where it's a gift so perfect timing. Could be a bit thinner, but easily shaves arm hair and is thinner than all my kitchen knives (henkles) so should work just fine. Next will be a bit thinner though.
 
I finished these two, and started the sheaths today. Unfortunately, my contact cement was hard as a rock. I’ll have to do them a Sunday instead.

the small one is 15n20, and the bigger one is z-wear with great ringed gidgee.

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ive posted this set a few times, this is the last image before being packaged up.


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I finished these two, and started the sheaths today. Unfortunately, my contact cement was hard as a rock. I’ll have to do them a Sunday instead.

the small one is 15n20, and the bigger one is z-wear with great ringed gidgee.

Djic3ew.jpg


ive posted this set a few times, this is the last image before being packaged up.


SO2lnGX.jpg



po3oCjd.jpg
Really cool holder for that set!
 
Love that set! What is the blue ferrule material? Kirinite or a different acrylic?

Nothing going on in my shop this past week; worked 80 hours. But I did manage to order a 36" radius platen from AmeriBrade!!!

I did a 2nd block of GITD burlap camo and it still had bubbles. The straight stacked blue burlap looked pretty good, so I am going to alternate layers on the next camo piece for GITD. Trying to figure out what to do with the blocks with holes in them; may make them into worrystones or something?
 
Finishing up my first Damasteel knife and I'm absolutely in love so far, despite how ridiculously long it took me to hand sand! I etched with muriatic acid mixed 50:50 with distilled water, heated to around 140 deg F for 3 cycles of 5:00 min each, scrubbing with 00000 steel wool between rounds. I could probably go darker with an instant coffee soak, but I like it as is. Also, I like how the pattern reveals the convex grind.
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That is one incredible looking bla…
 
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