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

[Richard Coyle]

 

[Scaniaman]

I think this handle material combo came out well. Black linen, natural canvas, copper corbys.

 

[TheEdge01]

-removed-

 

[Justin W]

Just finished this one and was blessed with a beautiful day outside to take some pictures too.

Drop point EDC hunter, 4 inch blade 8 inch overall
AEB-L at 62 RC, 0.08 stock from Jarod Todd
Bloodwood cutoff, kiln dried 3/4 board
416 stainless bolsters and pins hand sanded up to 2500 grit then some Mother's mag polish hand buffed to a nice mirror.

The 416 is much harder to work than brass, but pretty. I broke a bit drilling a pin hole and you can see where it boogered the hole a little on one side, but the other 3 pin surfaces are invisible.

Bloodwood is hard and dense, but it sands down easily. I barely had to do any rough shaping on the grinder before going to sand paper. It polishes up just like cocobolo.

https://imgur.com/a/95N6HFM

 

[Natlek]

5mm M2 steel , hollow grind , tapered tang ,cocobolo , carbon pins and only 170 grams .Balance between front pin and guard

 

[FredyCro]

Not my usual style of knives but was a blast to make them. The small one is made from N690 and the bigger one from RWL-34. The only two stainless steel knives I've done for a customer so far.
The photo was taken from the customer.

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Your customer has aa eye for a good picture. Nice couple.

 

[weo]

I did it in a cold workshop I think the batteries will give a different result when it is warmer

I'm no expert, but I think the colors are voltage dependent not temperature.

 

[Hengelo_77]

I'm no expert, but I think the colors are voltage dependent not temperature.

My idea is that the cold gives a lower voltage

 

[scarysamcary]

 

[Richard338]

I got Coop's shot of my last Bowie for 2022, just in time for Christmas.

 

[Taz]

Finally got some shop time in, had 3 days off in a row this week!

4" Magnacut hunter with my homemade blue camo handle material, mosaics, lanyard tube and Holstex sheath:

2 AEB-L Pokers, 3.5" blades, one live blade (full flat grind), 1 trainer blade (Saber ground), OD Green SureTouch handles on both. Live blade has 1 sheath with 1.5-2" belt loop and the other sheath for it has a lop for an older style duty belt. Customer plays the bagpipes and wanted a dress sheath and a regular EDC carry sheath. Trainer just got one sheath. These sheaths are Holstex.

Shot of the jimping from my Electro Etcher:

4" Nitro V Bird and Trout blade with rainbow trout scales (home made micarta) and wood pattern kydex sheath. Made for a buddy whose son committed suicide a few years ago:

Tuna blades. Nitro V on both, blue camo handles, blue kydex sheaths. 4" drop point for general boat use and cutting tuna collars, little double edge one is for bleeding out tuna by cutting the laterial blood line behind the pec fins.

Better pic of the blue camo scales:

Finally got time to get these just about done! Magnacut blades, 2.75" cutting edge, modeled to be similar to the Benchmade Bugout, but a but larger handles and fixed blades. This was just after epoxying the blades into the handles; they are hidden frame tangs with blue and green camo homemade handle material (like micarta).

After the handles were cleaned up, prepping for making the sheaths:

 

[Hengelo_77]

I'm working om slipjoint #11 and I'm trying out a few things.
It's a swayback from a pattern I found on-line. It feels good in hand and I like the low point.
M390 blade, RWL34 spring, Ti liners and old rag micarta scales.
Gonnabe a Xmass present to myself I think

It was below freezing this morning!

 

[Taz]

It sucks working in the cold shop! I gotta rework my shop area and get some insulation or something up so the heater I got will do something. Hard to heat a 2.5 car garage with 1 space radiator!

 

[Hengelo_77]

It sucks working in the cold shop! I gotta rework my shop area and get some insulation or something up so the heater I got will do something. Hard to heat a 2.5 car garage with 1 space radiator!

Look up dark infrared heater
I love mine

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Look up dark infrared heater
I love mine

I saw those and wondered about them?
my shop is only 11X19 in my basement.
But I can see my breath. I keep thinking of getting something...... What brand do you have/recommend?

Thanks.

 

[Taz]

I like the oiled filled radiator because there are no exposed coils and I can move it around to be closer to where I am working. I gotta redo the shop tarp walls; lots of holes and gaps in them currently and the top is mostly open again, so I am losing a lot of the heat!

 

[Hengelo_77]

I saw those and wondered about them?
my shop is only 11X19 in my basement.
But I can see my breath. I keep thinking of getting something...... What brand do you have/recommend?

Thanks.

Dark infrared is different then normal infrared. It heats solid objects, not the air around it. You can basically create a heat island in a larger space, also the heat doesn't escape if you open a door or so.
I have a brandless one, 800W.

 

[Taz]

My IR heaters I had before would heat the equip and stuff around them, which would radiate the heat. It kinda worked, but when you opened the door, the cold air would still come in with the wind. It took a while for stuff to heat up enough to radiate. Most IR heaters have open grates with the glowing coils, which I didn't like and the metal guard gets pretty hot, too. One broke because it fell over. I tried milk house heaters as well, but they were pretty fragile too and had the glowing coils. This year, I went with an oil filled standing radiator since there is nothing glowing that hot that is really exposed to the dust. I just wheel it so it is near me and the space heats up if it is closed off.

 

[Hengelo_77]

Dark infrared is different, it doesn't get that hot and doesn't glow

 

[Scott Hanson]

I got Coop's shot of my last Bowie for 2022, just in time for Christmas.
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That turned out incredible!