What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

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Let me tell you a story of a young girl who received her first custom knife as a birthday present from her parents who hired the neighbourhood (it's a Canadian neighbourhood) knifemaker. She learned a valuable lesson recently that we knife folks have all learned at some point as well. Never lend your knife to someone. ;)

The maker learned of it when asking his neighbour to see another knife he had made for the family, in order to show another customer the concept of similarly grained woods with contrasting color as a composite handle. This is when he saw the knife that had apparently almost been someone's lunch. Thankfully, the maker was willing and able to repair it.


Chris' knife (not the one that was almost eaten). He uses it for kindling. It's a Canadian Belt knife in 15N20 with Wenge scales and Bocote bolsters. I barely had to try to make the grain line up.
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His daughter's knife, which her friend managed to take a bite out of. Oof.
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Preliminary grind involved grinding on 120 grit perpendicularly (to the cross section) from the heel at an angle (to the profile) to recreate an unbroken straight line from heel to tip, and then the same grit to thin the geometry out for the new edge. Initial grinding had me leave the mark untouched, but the geometry would have been incorrect, so I ended up grinding it off before going to the finishing belts, and redoing the maker's mark.
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Added jimping and a crowned spine, as well as gave the handle a once over with the dremel and hand sanding to tighten up the ergos, fit, and finish. Also lightly chamfered the finger hole edges.
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This knife has 1/8" or so burlap Micarta liners and a thin outer layer of camo G10 which I purchased years ago from Fingertech Robotics to use on the Good Knife Co. Sitrep collaboration. I hate using it because it is much more liable to burning during grinding than most other G10 I have used, but I love using it because after taking the extra care to get it to come out nicely, it's a beautiful and unique material that looks and feel great. It's also grippier than most other G10.
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I joked with her over Discord that "we'll see if I can fix it and make it not too ugly, but if not I'll just have to throw it in the garbage". She told me she was fine with keeping it unchanged if I couldn't fix it. Then I gave it to her a little later, and she was happy, and said it was better than before. I guess that is the result of working again on a knife that I made at an earlier stage in my development as a maker. It was a joy to work on this tonight, and to give this knife back to her better than new.
 
I have music in the shop now by the way. And for reasons I don’t want to get into, despite having created at least a couple hundred pieces of music in my life, I ended up losing all of them over a decade ago. A few years ago I tried my hand at it again just with simple midi creation. I was excited when the one track I made came on at the shop considering there are over 200 tracks on the usb stick.


Haven’t made any more since. Maybe I’ll buy another Washburn WI-66 and Roland cube 60 one day.
 
David Mary said:
I have music in the shop now by the way. And for reasons I don’t want to get into, despite having created at least a couple hundred pieces of music in my life, I ended up losing all of them over a decade ago. A few years ago I tried my hand at it again just with simple midi creation. I was excited when the one track I made came on at the shop considering there are over 200 tracks on the usb stick.


Haven’t made any more since. Maybe I’ll buy another Washburn WI-66 and Roland cube 60 one day.
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nice. you're full of all kinds of talent......always impressing me.........
 
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