What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Back home now. I would have shared the following while it was in progress, but I have a phone that is sometimes a struggle to post on the forum with, so I just put my head down and worked, though I did take pics for later.

The gentleman who ordered these was kind enough to grant maker's discretion on the handle for the trailing point. The first decision I made was to use up a couple Suretouch odds and ends that otherwise might not have gotten used as full scales on their own, but more likely cut up for composite handles, eventually. Complementary but not identical colors with slightly differing layer thicknesses. Did you notice the color difference in the pics above?

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Also that blank is one I cut out with the angle grinder a few months ago to ship to Jarod along with the 40 some blades that were laser cut. You can see from this pic that the front pin hole is quite close to the edge of the handle. This occurred due to my drill skating before biting.


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Once I chamfer the scale edges, this would be very noticeable if I used pins going all the way through, so I decided to use internal pins. First I stuck two pieces of G10 together with a drop of the Gorilla Super Glue.

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Then I stuck the blank to them and drilled the holes, before attaching the liners to the Suretouch. Then I drilled down ever so slightly more into the Suretouch, deep enough for the pins to have something more than just liner to grab, but no so deep that shaping and texturing would expose them. The internal pins are simple bits of wood dowel, superglued in place, which the rest of the scales are secured by waterproof Gorilla Glue white.

The result is what I guess you could call a "pseudo asymmetrical" handle. I did have to grind a little deeper on one side to expose the suretouch in the manner I intended, meaning that one scale is probably a fraction of a millimeter thinner. But I think the two side, though differing in slightly color, are quite complementary to each other.

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I'm very much looking forward to refining and cleaning these ones up.
 
Explaining your methods is very appreciated by me. I can’t imagine cutting out that shape with an angle grinder! I would be stuck doing asymmetrical chisels. Lol. The handle looks great, and that blade looks like is would skin/flesh anything easily.
 
BlindMouse2of3 said:
Only thing missing is a chopper / butcher knife. The rest looks pretty well covered.
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Maybe a laser sharp magical snow shovel that makes room for more snow! Another 12-16” expected tonight.

I am not usually a big Tanto style fan, but that one just has a great look to it. Very stabby!
 
David Mary said:
Actually there is a gentleman awaiting an EDChef XL wharncliffe variant from me on my current MagnaCut batch.
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Thats not me, but I'm wishing it was.....
I don't have an edchef, and I don't have any magnacut yet
 
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