The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Even after three rounds of vacuuming, there is dust everywhere.Ummm….. most miserable crap to work with there is!
That is beautiful! I love that style with the jagged line running the length of the blade like that!Custom bowie blank is almost readyView attachment 1668515View attachment 1668516
Working on a mill with an enclosure, I don't get the same sort of spread of the micarta dust, but using the belt is always a right mess...Even after three rounds of vacuuming, there is dust everywhere.
That is an interesting side job!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.
No, I mean the advising for the Police specifically.Not a side job. I have been a custom goldsmith for nearly 50 years.
I have done repairs for Qaboos bin Said ( Sultan of Oman) and made a gift for Queen Elizabeth II.
Really cool holder for that set!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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That is one incredible looking bla…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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