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

Broomhead said:
Dayyy-uuum!!! That is sweet looking!! I love everything about it. That kirinite is spectacular, the patina is very well done, and the overall shape looks great. I hope it gets a lot of use by the future owner.
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Hmmm? How did you get the Red Devil Kirinite over there? I haven't seen that flavor here yet?

Great looking kitchen cutter!
 
LP Mac said:
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That handle looks like it is on fire! Whow!
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
Hmmm? How did you get the Red Devil Kirinite over there? I haven't seen that flavor here yet?

Great looking kitchen cutter!
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Hi mate, the kirinite came from usaknifemaker I get most of my knife making supplies from the states.
Australia pretty much sucks for knife supplies.
 
Kieran - is that wood on the handle? Looks like some crazy figure if it is. Nice knife



My most recent -
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Yes it is redwood burl. It is a bad picture. I couldnt find a good angle to get the hamon to pop and the wood to look nice. So I had to pick one.
 
I had a pretty busy and productive weekend.
Finally got around to building a light box to allow better photos.
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Finished my first round knife and a sheath to go with it.
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Made my first kydex sheath.
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And just heat treated the next little batch.
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Thanks for looking,
Chris
 
Great stuff guys!!! :)

LP- I normally don't care for that stuff (okay, I hate most of it, LOL) but it really works well on your kitchen knife. Great looking knife!

Kieran- very slick piece. :thumbup: What you found is exactly why I take 5-15 photos of a knife from various angles and lighting! ;) :)

J- very nice! very clean and really good looking piece. :)

Chris- nice lightbox--- looks like it works great! :cool:
 
Not a lot going on in my shop, but I'll say that is amazing what a band saw will do for morale if you are into stock removal. There is nothing like the transition from hours of hard labor with a hacksaw into 10 effortless minutes in front of the DeWalt.

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I'm just getting back into the game after quite a while off while I moved and had some positive career changes that help me afford new toys. I picked up an Atlas forge recently for general heating (I still can't hammer in my neighborhood) and will be picking up a 2x72 in the next week or so.

While I haven't been making much, I have been lurking here consistently, so keep up the good work guys. :cool:
 
Just making bevels ond SK Skylark :)
They now going to HT by my friend :)

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I'm still completing the move into my new shop (garage) so I haven't gotten to make any knives the past few weeks. Hasn't stopped me from designing though. Here's the latest. No name yet but its my take on the ultimate pure cutting knife for the outdoors. Thin and slicey :thumbup:

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Hunter,
Nice design and I have one suggestion for you if those are your front two pins holes? You might move that bottom one back just a hair to avoid any cracking on the scales. Especially if you use wood for the handle.
 
Laurence,

The smaller pin holes will be for phenolic pins only so there won't be any pressure on the wood. I gave up on using 1/8th metal pins long ago :o They are kind of close though, I might have to space them out a bit more before I get this model cut.
 
I'm tearing into an old CNC today, the little Dyna. It's been sitting there unused for about a year. When the Romi came in the old Dyna stopped getting used much. There's a problem with the little X axis Gecko drive so it sort of just got mothballed for a while. I'm going to swap the drive out with a spare and put on a new encoder just for good measure, get everything cleaned up and try and get it onto the 'bay to clear out some room for a new larger horizontal bandsaw. I have a ton of A2 to saw up and the old saw ain't up to it.




In the mean time I'm getting ready a little batch of 8" Shivs.

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Long, long overdue order. 440C integral keyhole fighter. Customer wants scales so I have added a tapered tang that that has three locking points. One is a front spigot that fits into a blind hole inside the key hole. The other two points are 1/16" pins that go through the legs of the keyhole and into the top and bottom of the tank. Lockup is tight with no play at all. Not looking forward to fitting the scales, thankfully I'll have plenty of time waiting for the engraving to be done to psych myself up. The black scales on the knife are dummy micarta ones to help with the build.
















 
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