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David Mary said:
Then I see movement at my feet outta the blue. So I gloved up, opened the door and served an eviction.

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This frog was trying to deliver a very important message to you... He was a bro and you didn't listen.

Fixall said:
Pretty stoked about this project!

These are some custom fabricated bench dogs with a collar that is 3/16” tall. I’ll be installing them into a 1.5” thick piece of Richlite.

I use a combination of a 12” disc grinder and a 4” x 36” belt sander to clean up knife blocks for scales.

The 4” x 36” sander moves too fast to safely finish thin scales without the piece going flying, or losing some fingerprints. Because of that, I typically use a random orbit sander after the drum sander on scales that are under 3/8” thick (the drum sander doesn’t like the finer grits). It can be very hard to secure a piece that small, so I often hold the piece in my hand…. And I’m not trying to come down with vibration white finger.

I’m hoping this setup will allow me to secure scales as thin as a 1/4” to the piece of Richlite to make finish sanding scales for sale easier. It should be super quick and easy to swap out scales in the system too. We’ll see how it goes.

If it doesn’t work…. I’ll be spring for a custom made, variable speed 4x36” belt sander. Strangely there are zero true variable speed 4” belt sanders on the market. The closest I’ve found is a Jet for around a $1000 that only goes down to ~900sfm.

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I need some of your focus and energy, it's impressive.
 
Of the four choices...what would complement a small raindrop pattern Damascus nessie style blade best: 1. Ivory Micarta, 2. High figured Tasmanian Blackwood, 3. Tight curl Claro walnut or 4. Ironwood burl?
 
Here’s a Serbian Chef’s knife I finished up. The blade is carbon steel and the handle is Cocobolo.
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navman said:
Of the four choices...what would complement a small raindrop pattern Damascus nessie style blade best: 1. Ivory Micarta, 2. High figured Tasmanian Blackwood, 3. Tight curl Claro walnut or 4. Ironwood burl?
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Ebony/African blackwood.
Or the ivory micarta, like Swiss says.
Either the blade or the handle should be figured, not both imho
 
After careful consideration...I opted for Ivory paper micarta with black G10 bolsters, Ivory and black g10 liners. Now to assemble the composite scales! (although the DIW would have looked cool). BTW I HATE working with ivory paper micarta...it's "smeary."

This is the blade in question...some ULTRA RARE Mike Norris CPM420V core stainless damascus Raindrop clad san mai, the billet was easily 25 years old according to Mike (terrible picture).

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navman said:
After careful consideration...I opted for Ivory paper micarta with black G10 bolsters, Ivory and black g10 liners. Now to assemble the composite scales! (although the DIW would have looked cool). BTW I HATE working with ivory paper micarta...it's "smeary."

This is the blade in question...some ULTRA RARE Mike Norris CPM420V core stainless damascus Raindrop clad san mai, the billet was easily 25 years old according to Mike (terrible picture).

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Very Pretty..... if I ever wanted a damacus style blade, It would definitely be Raindrop!
 
bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives said:
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I like the thicker walled non counter-sunk lanyard tube that matches the size of the corby's. Would look beautiful on a nice block handle that's as tall as the ricasso with the blade shape of the knife on the far right (top pic) with a pommel that ends in a subtle less rounded ) shape. Maybe a 4.25-4.3" handle and a 3.75-4" blade and a solid orange G10 handle to make the stainless hardware pop. While you're at it with that nice blockey handle, you might consider subtlely shaping the tops of the scales in a slant by the ricasso so you're not just looking down at at a flat line where the scales start (on an overview shot).

Beautiful work :) I really like how you meet the lines of the edge and downward slop of the spine on that far right knife in the top pic. Comes off nice and centered from the handle. Lots of makers get that wrong by running the spine completely level, when really it needs a very gradual slope to it in order to meet that triangulation.
 
SwissHeritageCo said:
This frog was trying to deliver a very important message to you... He was a bro and you didn't listen.



I need some of your focus and energy, it's impressive.
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It’s super easy!

All you have to do is quit your career of eight years to start a knife supply business and then spend all your time in your shop so you don’t have to see your wife’s questioning looks! 😂

In all seriousness, my wife is my biggest supporter and makes this possible. :)

I have my lines laid out for the project but it will likely have to wait until after Blade West. So much to do!!!

When I get back I’ll be putting that stupendous milling table to work that D DevinT recommended me a while back. :)

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