What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Dymalux is dyed and stabilized birch laminate. Translation, it is wood that comes in many colors, and doesn't shrink, warp, or crack regardless of temperature or humidity changes.
 
Bucks been using a version for many decades now. even the 110s used to use it for decades until couple years back with the deal with Taylor guitars to use ebony again.

I've seen pics of dymnawood / dymalux and other brands names of the same basic product.....survive being submerged in water for years where the steel was bout gone and the dymalux looked like new still. I'm a fan of it......I've been personally using it in 100 series Bucks for decades now.
 
Fat bikes are neat, but will quadruple the energy expenditure. Road tires roll fast on pavement, cut through snow, and slip on ice. But everything slips on ice, which is why I don't ride on it.

Studded tires for ice. I rode on it for 5 or 6 years when I commuted and trained year round on the lakeshores of West MI. Kenda klondikes were my fave for value, nokian hakkas were grip monsters, but rolled like tractor tires on pavement.

I still have my studded tires, think I wore out one rear over the years.


Fat bikes are fun but not efficient on pavement, as you pointed out. Their tires are also really pricey, the studded tires for fat bikes are crazy expensive, and that's coming from a guy that used to pay the premium for racing tubular tires. For mtb trails, fat bike is all I've ridden for the past 3 years unless it was an event.

For the amounts of snow on roads, CX tires are great because you don't rely on flotation like fat bikes and get down to grippy stuff and you don't push nearly as much snow while breaking trail.

This was years ago, riding Maybury State park when visiting my wife while still dating. Rode the mtb trails with guys on fat bikes using my single speed and the kenda klondike tires.

 
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Yeah, they have been a fad here too across our lake.....but,
They are Heavy, slow, and expensive.

Not sure you can call them a fad if they've been around widely for over a decade and they've even become an attraction at ski resorts. Surly came out with the pugsley in 2005, which is the oldest widely available model I'm aware of.

Running mountain bikes or cyclocross bikes with winter tires was more popular before that. The newer fat bikes ride a lot better than the 1st designs, IMO. The originals were designed for going straight, to help break snow, and turned like crap. The newer ones are much more agile on trails, but still heavier than an equally equipped standard mountain bike. They have massive grip and so are very forgiving in corners, which is why a lot of people like them. Crashing happens less from running out of grip.
 
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are ya gonna need chains for the bike tires....I'm joking but maybe not. I learned the other day folks have shoe chains for ice and snow for their shoes......I had no idear.....

I have boot chains and crampons. Used to use the boot chains 1-2 months out of the year to take the dog out when the spring freeze-thaw left the back yard an ice rink. I had to carry her more than a few times. She's gone now so not as much a worry, but we both went down numerous times before the boot chains (yak trax are the brand I have, I think).
 
My at home carry is sold. It went to a lefty. I am a lefty but usually ended up using this knife right handed.

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So…

Time to make a new one with serrations on the right side.

First of all, every resilience I ever owned had this weird little bit of waviness in the blade, just past the heel.

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Do fix that obviously. Not that it hinders function, but aesthetically I don’t like it.

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Thinner behind the edge, straight spine for a pointy tip:

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Thumb ramp is way too sharp by design. Fix!

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And crown it all.

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Dental work

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More to come but I couldn’t get the fire lit earlier and my hands are cold. Might just go home.
 
Maybe I didn’t go home just yet. Numb and shivering now but might as well tough it out and get the regrind mark on there

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but did ya fix that faulty liner lock from spyderco by bending the lock bar and filing the angles....also test it by spine whacking it on concrete yet?🤣😂

okay jokes from another thread carried into here aside.....sheer awesome there David.....

also no fire needed down here in floriduh David...we'll leave the lights on for ya......
 
Brrrrrr

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But that was earlier. Then at home opened it up to strengthen the detent. Also you can see the detent ramp I installed earlier today before I went to the shop.

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Now;

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When the fire don't want to go just use a few Fritos and some rubbing alcohol out of the first aid kit. Just make sure you don't need to put it out for awhile them Fritos are straight napalm.

New resilience looks great. I know a few lefty's. Some of them would carry a long pointy knife like that on the right side for clean slicing work to compliment the hard use knife in the left pocket or little fixed blade belt knife. Some people love options. Glad to hear your old one found a good home just in time for your new one to get in.
 
Forgot to mention that I finally modded some of my remaining folder blanks from the defunct reblade project. They will be hidden tang blades.

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I have three others that I already ground bevels into, and I'm still deciding what to do with those ones. But rest assured they will not leave the shop as reblades for their respective models. I couldn't even tell you which is which any more.
 
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