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

Taz said:
A King 800 does a nice start for a Kasumi finish. A softer Hakka or Aoto is often the next step before going up to a finishing stone. Softer, muddy stones seem to work pretty well for kasumi finishes. I have some finger stones as well that I have tried. Something on the list to do in the future when I start doing San Mai blades!
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Finger stones can definitely help a lot.
 
My model Ibis with Irish bog oak.
The sheath is a special design to the taste of the new owner. He is happy with it and it's been an enjoyable process for him and me.
Bog oak is beautiful and a pleasure to work with. This piece is 6000-8000 yo, so a Mammoth might have scratched his back on it while the tree was alive!

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Hubert S. said:
Nice looking knives.

I am wondering how a knife maker in Texas would come by a metric cutting mat that has the German word for seam allowance printed on it. And why is the seam allowance specified in inches?
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Lol. It's from Amazon, also it's in imperial on the other side of the mat.
 
Blankblank said:
A nice Japanese natural stone can be a serious game changer for stone polishing. The hard part is finding a good one, that isn't the price of a heat treating oven. I've had ok luck buying koppas (small or odd shaped stones) for reasonable prices.

Also if you want to go above the 3k super stone. I found the kitayama 8k was pretty good for polishing, it's finicky buy once you've figured out the stone it will give a great polish. I literally wore through mine I used it so much.
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Thanks but the jns route is a rabbit hole I don’t want to enter.
 
Taz said:
A King 800 does a nice start for a Kasumi finish. A softer Hakka or Aoto is often the next step before going up to a finishing stone. Softer, muddy stones seem to work pretty well for kasumi finishes. I have some finger stones as well that I have tried. Something on the list to do in the future when I start doing San Mai blades!
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Agreed, the king 800 is surprisingly good
 
Experimental design for slicing performance. It's 0.1" thick Magnacut, FFG, to be hardened to 63 HRC. There is no choil and the plunge is extra crisp and actually angled slightly back towards the handle. The handle has no protrusion below the cutting edge. Swedge is 70 degrees included (35 each side). It's going out for heat treat tomorrow, possibly with added jimping.Molokai.jpg
 
As promised a while back, some pictures of my shop. In the second picture, I have the window and the smaller door hung up. Still have to tackle the big door, but thinking about how I will do it, because the previous owner had already cut that opening and it is 44 inches wide. 44 inch doors don't seem to be a standard size and start at 800 bucks, so I'd rather just make a frame for a smaller door.

Also been waiting on my heat treat oven this week. They've been trying to deliver for 3 days but there's been some coordination problems. Hopefully we can resolve that soon.
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