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

Thanks very much Shawn, really like what comes out of your shop too.

Just took these pics to send to my customer, all surfaces finished to 600gt and ready to go to the engraver.



 
my first bushcraft with a scandi grind. I should have stopped grinding at 400 grit. The 800 grit belt seem causes the blade to bounce at the seem and left little dishes in it. But it wont take long to hand sand out. The blade is already pretty sharp and I figured I really didn't want to cut myself on this one, so I stated a Wheeler sanding jig so I can stop stabbing and cutting myself.

 
Made and fired up the 2 brick forge last weekend, HT 3 blanks and now I'm going to finish my first knife.

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Getting shiny but I can really see that for a fine finish I have to increase my hand sanding skills. I've got quite a few polished scratches on this one. Took it up to 2000 on the disk and then messed around with green and white buffing compound on my buffer. Did all the finish work without gloves too as recommended here to avoid messing up the HT. Ground down some fingernails too! Now I just have to get some scales on without having the newbie 2x4 handle and I'll have my first completed knife under my belt.

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Seeing Jimmy Seymour's knife gave me deja vu! Almost all wrapped up....still more finish work to do. My first "scandi" style knife.005.jpg
 
Maelstrom78 said:
Fired up the 2 brick forge last weekend, HT 3 blanks and now I'm going to finish my first knife.

Getting shiny but I can really see that for a fine finish I have to increase my hand sanding skills. I've got quite a few polished scratches on this one. Took it up to 2000 on the disk and then messed around with green and white buffing compound on my buffer. Did all the finish work without gloves too as recommended here to avoid messing up the HT. Now I just have to get some scales on without having the newbie 2x4 handle and I'll have my first completed knife under my belt.
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Pretty cool! Post when its done!
 
I know what you mean. I don't yet have a bandsaw (metal cutting or wood cutting) due to price and space restrictions but I just got the next best thing. My wife bought me a dewalt 4.5 inch angle grinder for my birthday so I could cut metal and shape wood. I jsut put on a very thin metal cutting blade and that thing went through 1/8" stock like butter. I moved an inch on 10-20 seconds where the previous inch took me 10 minutes with various other tools that really jsut wore out from the steel.

Where did you get that table for the band saw?

How come you cannot hammer in your neighborhood? City ordinances or assosiation rules?

coleslaw said:
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:
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^ Maelstrom78, that's your first blade? Wow man, that's awesome!
 
Wow guys thank you so much. I learned everything (so much more to go) here at bladeforums.com forum and the stickies.

It's encouraging to read that there is hope for me. :thumbup:

Now I have to just not mess up the scales.

Also, green compound will buff a coffee thermos,
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The thermos? If so I peeled the plastic layer off after it started coming off in the dishwasher. And it was the nice stainless underneath.
 
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Been really super busy with little time for much of anything, but still working on this project as I can! :)

[video=youtube;FsD1OM2C75M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsD1OM2C75M[/video]
 
12345678910 said:
The handle holes look very close to the edge, I hope they don't start cracks for you.
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Here is a thought. If I did hidden pins with oversized holes, would the g flex protect against cracking? I could see that working. Maybe bevel our the bottoms of the scale holes for a rivet shape.
 
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