That Pantograph is awesome!!
I finally got some shop time!!!! I signed up to get a table at a Sportmans Tag Sale in early April, so I needed to get off my butt and get in the shop.
Got the Shechita cleaned up to 120 grit (36 on the handle flats) and off they went! Customer has a friend who wants to try polishing and handling them himself, so I have a feeling I will be seeing these back again to finish off? LOL.
Finished off some Strops that I started the wood handles on 2 years ago or so and did some narrower ones in cheap red oak from Home Depot. 12 red oak strops and 2 Maple, 2 Cherry and 4 Walnut in this batch! I gotta charge them with compounds now. I have 40, 20, 14, 3, 2, 1 and 1/2 micron diamond pastes to use. I recently did one for myself using a 40 micron on one side and 1 micron on the other side. That combo works really well and just takes a few strokes on each side to go from a nice 1200 grit diamond plate edge to a shaving sharp edge! Still waiting on the 20 and 2 microns to show up. I got some leather strap from the big river site and of course it's curled and not super straight, so I went with Contact Cement for the red oak strops so I could put the glue on each piece and let it dry a bit and then stick it and clamp them in a stack. MUCH faster than waiting for the Titebond to dry, less squeeze out, so I will probably be switching to the rubber contact cement for these in the future! I had a few red oaks splinter out when drilling the handle hole, so I may eliminate that on the red oak ones.
Ground out these 2; I started them last week. Top is my basic Nitro V 3.3" blade, bottom is a FBBO RT in 3/32" Magnacut. I think I will use some vintage micarta from Pops with mosaics and a liner of some sort, top not sure yet?
And made up another of my Shop Knife Scapels! 1/16" Magnacut, 2.75" ish cutting edge (forgot to measure it), black G10 guard, natural canvas micarta frame, blue linen micarta spacers and Red/Burlap handle scales! The handle is a little beefier than the ones I have, but it's still nice and light.
I finally got some shop time!!!! I signed up to get a table at a Sportmans Tag Sale in early April, so I needed to get off my butt and get in the shop.
Got the Shechita cleaned up to 120 grit (36 on the handle flats) and off they went! Customer has a friend who wants to try polishing and handling them himself, so I have a feeling I will be seeing these back again to finish off? LOL.
Finished off some Strops that I started the wood handles on 2 years ago or so and did some narrower ones in cheap red oak from Home Depot. 12 red oak strops and 2 Maple, 2 Cherry and 4 Walnut in this batch! I gotta charge them with compounds now. I have 40, 20, 14, 3, 2, 1 and 1/2 micron diamond pastes to use. I recently did one for myself using a 40 micron on one side and 1 micron on the other side. That combo works really well and just takes a few strokes on each side to go from a nice 1200 grit diamond plate edge to a shaving sharp edge! Still waiting on the 20 and 2 microns to show up. I got some leather strap from the big river site and of course it's curled and not super straight, so I went with Contact Cement for the red oak strops so I could put the glue on each piece and let it dry a bit and then stick it and clamp them in a stack. MUCH faster than waiting for the Titebond to dry, less squeeze out, so I will probably be switching to the rubber contact cement for these in the future! I had a few red oaks splinter out when drilling the handle hole, so I may eliminate that on the red oak ones.
Ground out these 2; I started them last week. Top is my basic Nitro V 3.3" blade, bottom is a FBBO RT in 3/32" Magnacut. I think I will use some vintage micarta from Pops with mosaics and a liner of some sort, top not sure yet?
And made up another of my Shop Knife Scapels! 1/16" Magnacut, 2.75" ish cutting edge (forgot to measure it), black G10 guard, natural canvas micarta frame, blue linen micarta spacers and Red/Burlap handle scales! The handle is a little beefier than the ones I have, but it's still nice and light.
