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

[David Mary]

 

[Hengelo_77]

Would you call this blade a spey?
It is 3 5/32" closed, 9/32"thick and weight less then 1 ounce. I'm not a CF-person but I do like how light plays with the material and it weighs next to nothing!
Looking forewards to having this one finished and in my pocket.

 

[J Lensmire]

New glass! JB weld just seems so messy. We’ll see how the VHB tape holds up. The only .05” stuff I had on hand was 1” wide, so it’s doubled up. I imagine 2” tape would have been even easier.

Been running that same set-up for two+ years using 3M tape without issues. My tape was only 1/2” wide so have four pieces. No problem at all. Some use carpet tape

 

[Fixall]

Great to hear.

I know that CRK uses it as a permanent adhesive for their inlays too.

I'm using the 3M 5925 because it's what I had on hand, but it looks like the 5906/5907/5908/5909 line would have a little better shear strength (which I imagine would be ideal for the application), and is also quite a bit thinner. The 5925 has nearly double the 90 degree adhesion strength though.

 

[David Mary]

Just lacks finishing.

 

[Lorien]

spent a few hours grinding handles today. I'll finish them up by hand

 

[ashwinearl]

small knife been hanging on my wall for years in AEBL put some interesting wood on it for a gift

 

[TheEdge01]

I finished this camp knife up recently. The blade is 26c3, it has black bull hoof scales with red liners and black G10 pins.

 

[Natlek]

Would love to see how you do guard fit up... Looks excellent!! Great job

Thanks my friend . I think that I explain that in this topic

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/shop-talk-q4-build-challenge-kephart-knife.1957154/page-4

If it is not clear please tell me and I will try to explain it better

 

[Natlek]

Just lacks finishing.

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You make them faster than it takes me time to look at them

 

[David Mary]

 

[TheEdge01]

Here’s a large pikeman I’m finishing up. It has an 8670 carbon steel blade. The handle has deer stag scales, gray liners, G10 pins, and an aluminum lanyard hole.

 

[Kevin Kf knives]

Wife thinks it might need a spacer between the ironwood and micarta.

 

[David Mary]

To spacer or not to spacer. Ultimately a subjective decision. Both are valid in my opinion. Handle looks classic.

 

[David Mary]

Today we can be no spacer siblings.

 

[David Mary]

You make them faster than it takes me time to look at them

Must be your imagination.

Anyway I started these today:

 

[Lorien]

ok, well I guess there's a tiny bit of sanding to go on a couple of handles- turns out a lack of symmetry when it comes to handles drives me a little crazy. Blades were cleaned up today and I've started cutting leather. I think I'll get all the sheaths to the wet molding stage before I get back to the knives- I'll grind in the edge bevels when the sheaths are drying and save the final hand sharpening until the sheaths are done.

This is pretty much 95% how they all are going to look in the end. Well, minus the filter, lol.

 

[The_Iron_Joe]

I'm finally able to get back into the garage today to work, trying to finish cleaning up these blades while the handles are going through the mill... Might even have some up for sale by the end of the evening if I can keep on task long enough!

 

[David Mary]

turns out a lack of symmetry when it comes to handles drives me a little crazy

Me too. Good thing it's only a little, though or I'd have ground every handle I ever made until nothing was left.

 

[The_Iron_Joe]

Managed to get three knives completed! Late day, but productive at least.