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

[ashwinearl]

some recent slipjoints. Spalted tamarind and macassar ebony both in 14c28n stainless

 

[Jak Epp]

some recent slipjoints. Spalted tamarind and macassar ebony both in 14c28n stainless

Those handles are beautiful!

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I rarely post what I am doing in the shop, but here are some throwing axes I am doing. There is also a shot of some of the commercial Pro axes I throw.
That little hawk throws like a dart and sticks from either side. One shot is of a few of the best throwers in the group. The chart is how I dial in the rotation period of each axe.
Most are made from re-worked Ace Hardware 1.5# heads. There are about 20 more in the works.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

This axe I call the "H". I did it in Ukrainian colors and it is in honor of my friend Gen. Hennadiy Kovalenko ... who goes by H. It is wicked accurate and has perfect rotation. Look how deeply it imbeds in the target with only a light throw.
I'd send him and his troops a crate of these if it wasn't nearly impossible.

 

[navman]

I have only done one full tang bolstered knife. Decided it was time to do a few more. Tapered tang, dovetailed, 416 pinned/peened bolsters. This is number 2 (3 is off camera.)

Decided to do the glue up of each scale individually. glue up, cure, drill, glue other, drill, cure, installl corbies/lanyard, finish.

 

[oldschool45]

Small Bottle opener in 52100
Washcoat of Satanite. Heated to 1480'F- 15 min soak. Quenched in 3 gallons of Parks50, Christened with a Keystone Light, Tempered twicce for 2 hours at 475'F. Shooting for 56~57 Rockwell. Rough weight 6 pounds.

 

[David Mary]

A smidge too small, if you ask me. But hey whatever works for you.

 

[Glen Juntunen]

This was my first stacked leather handle. It looks great, but I definitely prefer working with wood handles over leather.

 

[navman]

Leather and an edge and this one will be done. Second pinned/peened bolster. This one turned out well, but there are things I need to improve. S90V, black crosscut micarta and red liners.

 

[D Bloch]

Trying to not get impaled while handsanding parts of this sujihiki...

there's a reason behind it, I promise (not a good one)

 

[navman]

Welp, I knew this was going too smoothly. the other bolstered boot knife had an ...issue. The bottom corby had a hole that was drilled to deep and showed through after contouring. Drilled it out and decided to replace it with a decorative mosaic pin, I think it will actually look cool, but that was 45 minutes that could have been used for something else.

 

[Lorien]

^20% of knife making is making knives, 80% is dealing with problems

 

[The_Iron_Joe]

^20% of knife making is making knives, 80% is dealing with problems

Too real!

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

 

[navman]

I think the, uh, design adjustment...turned out great!

 

[Afm37]

Close to being done with this Yanagiba. Spicy White and plain steel Ni-Mai.

 

[On75]

Nice

 

[Mitchell Knives]

I finished these up over the weekend.

 

[Taz]

Haven't been in the shop since I finished up the damascus slicer and EDC blades...going through withdrawals!!

 

[DanF]

Hamons are like a box of Cracker Jacks, never know what you will get (other than a LOT more work!).

Every one I do is the last I will do. I tell myself that on a regular basis.