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What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Finished dinner and got back to cleaning up, hand honing, printing packing slips, etc. And this one needed a little glue cleanup as well. I admit that is one of my biggest weaknesses as a maker. It comes from the choice to use Gorilla glue white, which is notorious for squeeze out that needs cleanup after curing. My clean up is never perfect. I have gotten a lot better at it. But now you may be wondering, "why GG white?"

GG white is half an hour to cure, dirt cheap (relative to how many knives I can make with one bottle), very strong and completely waterproof. You guys are kind enough to support me even from across the border. And I am very happy to purchase most of my materials from the USA, both directly, and from a Canadian reseller who imports from the USA. So GG white is just one of the ways that I can keep the price reasonable, by not spending all the extra time and money on epoxy.

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, a little mineral oil goes like a million miles with black palm and purple heart.

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I'm still going to try to get that last bit at the bottom too. Sometimes it's hard to see until I try to take photos.
 

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I got it! And guess what I am using to clean the glue.

Cold Steel Voyager Tanto, with ridiculous handle texture ground off and AUS-8 blade profile modded to 3.5" drop point with a full height flat grind and .012" behind the edge.
 
Don't tell if you ain't gonna show, amirite? Forgot to mention the Recon 1 thumbstuds lol

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I actually totally forgot that I had this knife until a week or two ago when I found it in a drawer.
 
The handle on this guy has always been a nightmare. There is a nasty seam that tore up my hands the first time I tried to use it so I wrapped it in hockey tape. But I dropped it a little uncontrolled yesterday and the handle scraped the driveway cement and tore, leading to a bunch of ripped tape that would only tear up my hands all over again. So I'm going to file down the handle. I didn't think of it thought before because when I first got this beast I wasn't a craftsman yet.

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