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

Way-Barney said:
Hey That is Awful,

I have three drill presses one that's not even ever plugged in, I wish that you were closer.
Whats your PP and I will send over a few dollars to help get you back on the road, pretty tough making a knife with no press!
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I really appreciate that man. Idk if you need to do that. Today the last knife finally sold out of that batch of kitchen knives I posted. So i can at least buy a new one. But it just is going to set me back, since thats money that could have went to other things I need.
 
deerrockknives said:
Pretty excited about this one.

Partial Tang Puukko
.08” Magnacut @ 63.5 HRC
Blade Length: 3.9”
Handle Length: 4.1” Coke Bottle Shape
Handle Material: Black Ultrex/Loveless
Thickness behind edge: .01” Wet Ground

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Richard338 said:
The first of a set of two M42 daggers in Magnacut and African Blackwood. This one is 6", I just glued up the 5" one.
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nice work!
 
N.W. Gean said:
Wow, that's a lot of shaping!!

Do you do any hand sanding on them or just have a good polishing regimen on the grinder?
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Good polishing regimen haha, pretty much all of my blade and handle finishes are off the grinder, I’ve found most customers looking for a good knife to use don’t care to pay for hand sanded blades and getting a good belt finish on the handles helps keep it profitable and efficient.
 
Here are two I am finishing up this weekend...they need edges and sheaths.

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Finished the His and Hers dagger set.
There was one challenge. Since the handle is full tang and is wider in the middle than at the guard, a small gap is left on the handle side, on each side. I decided to add a bronze spacer, but it has the same gap issue if you make the slot big enough to pass over the handle. The solution I came up with was to make a wider slot on the diagonal of the spacer, then rotate it into position, with the cutout hidden under the slabs.
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Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
Follow the directions fully to unpack all the braces inside. Some are not obvious.
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Yeah some took me a second.

Getting the thing dialed in is what took me a few hours though. Of just testing, and turning some screws and repeating.

The_Iron_Joe said:
Very awesome! You've got me looking at pricing now.
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Definitely worth it i think! It hurt dropping that $ a little but really I'm sure it will pay for itself soon enough. Did some coupons of wolfram special steel today/last night. Its nice being able to get this stuff dialed in to my kiln, and get my own hardness/austenitizing temp curves.

It will be especially usefull doing high alloy stuff with cryo, and low temp tempers.
 
Joshua Fisher said:
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Ignore the mess, 140 knives all paired with handle materials to get done this weekend and shipped out. Time to start the handle shaping marathon.
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This picture makes my head spin - kudos to you Josh. I definitely agree that it seems that most people looking for knives don't understand the effort/time that goes into hand sanding (and when they find out they don't want to pay for it). :D
 
Bit of a hiatus - work, life, building the shop, losing the shop here shortly, one big circle. But we keep on keepin' on.

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Been obsessing over some traditional stuff lately, and doing a bunch of reading. Decided to get my ideas down into C.A.D for some prototyping.

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3D printing sure does make lightning work of prototyping and tweaking things without investing countless hours to get it materialized. Final design - intent is to tweak it based off actually producing the first few.

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A2 came impressively quick from AKS - love that some things never change, like how fast they get you your steel. Now to see if I can convince Gilbert M Gilbert M to HT it for me :D Was bummed to see that JT stopped offering small batch stuff. If anyone has any resources to read on getting that super sweet carbon banding to show on A2, and the etch process, let me know :)
 
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