What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[Fixall]

I never did. I don't like slick handles to start with, but the kicker is there is no tool more commonly associated with grievous knifemaker injuries than a buffer. My mind has been made up on this for quite some time now. Someone wants a knife from me with a buffed handle? I'm sure there is someone they can pay to do it. Any knife I made, if you see it with a buffed handle, someone else did it.

Yep. Even catching an edge on a rectangular, dull scale slab can be a frightening experience. I use a fully variable speed, 1/2hp buffer so that helps a bit.

I don't do it on handles because of all the curves, but I've found if you sand material between 5,000 - 10,000 grit it looks significantly better anyways.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

What is this "buffer" you speak of?

That a guy! I hate buffers. I still use one for my demo scales, but I hate them and refuse to use them on my own built knives.

You gents are missin’ out. Haha.

 

[David Mary]

You gents are missin’ out. Haha.

Perhaps. But we all have our preferences and comfort levels.

 

[DocJekl]

Slow week so far as I have been doing a lot at home.

But I have regrinds, and mods to work on next, as well as the last Hudson Bay which I’ll be starting next week, along with ROFRs. I have some exciting new micarta from Fixall too. The crosscut Micarta is for the customer who ordered the Hudson Bay Bowie but the rest is so far unclaimed, as are two of the Spartans.

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I like your blade profile outline, but hear me out - imagine it with a slight harpoon, from just a small change by leaving as little of the material at the top front of the blade that your sharpie lines shows will be removed?

Are you going to re-profile the handle too?

 

[David Mary]

I’ll do yours however you would like me to DocJekl

 

[Cwilliams563]

I’ll do yours however you would like me to DocJekl

Don’t forget that he likes your serrated edges on his knives.

 

[David Mary]

I am definitely going to serrate one of these

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

Let’s also round the corners of the thumb plate even more than from the factory and subtly bevel the edge for fashion factor. Not the bottom edge though, we want that sharp and grippy.

 

[David Mary]

M4 tenacious on its way to being a pocket laser. I mean it kinda was to start with.



But not like this:

 

[David Mary]

I tried a drum size down for the serrations this. Also, DocJD I thought about when you asked me why I didn’t take the serrations to the tip last time. I figured, why not. If you look closely you can still tell which serrations were already part of the original combo edge. But I think the smaller drum made it easier for me to get them closer to uniform this time. Not to mention more teeth makes it look more awesomer.

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

One of these almost done too.

 

[DocJD]

One of these almost done too.

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Wowser ! That's just a whole different knife than the Spartan you started with .

A bit disorienting for me , but very interesting .

 

[DocJekl]

I’ll do yours however you would like me to DocJekl

Don’t forget that he likes your serrated edges on his knives.

My Spartan was owned by my deceased brother, so I'm leaving it just as it was when it was used in his hands. And I don't like the model enough to buy another one

 

[David Mary]

Lighter. Faster. Cuttier. Thank you Matt for the inspiration and JBMonkey for the push. This hidden knife inside the Spartan is outstanding

 

[David Mary]

One more Spartan to figure out what to do with. Then regrind marks and I can go home.

 

[DocJekl]

 

[David Mary]

I’m not getting the joke