What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

After that pic I decided to burn the midnight oil on a little side project. So I built three pairs of composite handle scales using cut offs from some of the interesting materials that have come through the shop. I’ll show ‘em all later, but here’s the first pair (orange liners too):

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If you compare this with the photo from a week or so ago you can see I took a bit more material out of the handle to bring the balance point a bit more forward after regrinding out the chip I put in the blade by smashing the edge into my shop wood stove during batoning. That was the hard test I referred to. I never said it was deliberate! 🤣

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Just when I finally thought I was ready to go home I discovered why I should not park outside next to the shop when I run the stove for 12 hours and melt all the snow off the roof. Had to bring it in the shop for a little a warm up before I can go:

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I should watch Kung Fu Hustle start to finish. I've never seen it through in one sitting. I only vaguely remember the Axe Gang but I wondered if those Cold Steel copies were any good.
 
SharpBits said:
How do drivers in Canada treat bicyclists?
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It varies. I have experienced everything from complete jerks shouting "get off the road" from their windows for no other reason than that I am there, to thoughtless motorists giving up the right of way in situations where it is dangerous to do so (like the story I related in the "Tyranny of Nice" thread), and everything in between. It's the between that I prefer, that is, where people just treat the cyclist as what it is, namely another vehicle on the road that is bound by, and has the same rights under statute, as any motor vehicle.
 
One extra thing, though: until I started using the high powered setting on my Olight for a bike light, I had the constant problem of motorists keeping their high beams on at night when in the oncoming lane of the county roads I use to go back and forth into town. Now I keep it on turbo all the time, but angled way up so that it will be right in a motorists eyes. Then when there is a car in the oncoming lane, I tilt the light down so that the hotspot is on the road just a few yards ahead of me. Literally turning down my high beams for motorists. Usually they get the point and do the same. When they don't, I tilt it back up for a half second, and then they clue in, and I don't have to be blind while passing them and for the fifteen to thirty seconds thereafter.
 
So a little explanation:

The chopper above is a refinement of the Triumph model I made as a collaboration with a friend. Refinements are limited to the handle profile, which looks like this on the original:

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So I basically just made the handle a touch more neutral.

The handle scales on this new one consist of black canvas Micarta, with an inlay of the green cut-off portion of some Trout G-Carta I had left over from a custom, and the cut-off of some orange Micarta from Fixall. The liners are some 3/16" grey and black Suretouch which I chose for the fact that even as a liner, it provides excellent grip on account of all the exposed rubber.

The blade is just about 13" long of 3/16" AEB-L and 61 HRC. It is ground quite thin, too thin for cinder block destruction, but more than sturdy enough for hard wood.
 
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