What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[David Mary]

This one is going out the door tomorrow. It's done now, but here's how it looked with another hour or so to go:

 

[David Mary]

 

[Bob Denman]

That's going to be a nice-loooing knife!

 

[David Mary]

First, sorry about the mess.

Anyway, today I did refinements on the grind of the Tant(-)O and short sword, as well as ergos on the latter. I put a couple feelers out about it to gauge interest, but come Friday if it isn't spoken for, I'll think about putting it up on the exchange.







Check out that cross section.


Depending on how things go, I may either sell this without a sheath if someone else makes a scabbard for it, or make a pancake Boltaron sheath for it. For now, it waits.

 

[David Mary]

'Twas time to finish some sheaths today.

 

[Bob Denman]

All that time jumping around in the sun and have a compression lock applied to my arm energized me to go back to the shop and work on a few other things.

Which reminds me I forgot yesterday to disclose the renewed R&D with the 8670 green Suretouch machete. It did pretty well on grass, but I found a copper rod buried by the gate where I was trimming the grass. I found it by contacting the edge with it in full swing. The machete is ground very thin, and did roll. The copper rod was probably approaching an inch in diameter. Some photos of the aftermath.

I know of a certain smatchet that would have shortened-up that copper rod for you...

 

[lmalterna]

Many of those "copper" rods are actually copper clad steel rods for Earth grounds. a 1" solid copper rod might be worth digging up at today's scrap prices.

Bill

 

[Wild Willie]

Many of those "copper" rods are actually copper clad steel rods for Earth grounds. a 1" solid copper rod might be worth digging up at today's scrap prices.

Bill

I'd scrap a steel rod too with prices where they're at. I junked my 95 f350 a couple of months back, got 800 dollars for it, I doubt I'd have gotten that much trying to sell it as a parts truck.

 

[David Mary]

The local postmaster is a very friendly and helpful lady, so I offered to sharpen a knife for her. She brought me this one today, which had a busted tip. I'll drop it back off to her with its sharp edge and a new tip on Saturday on the way to the shop (forgot to take a before photo).



And then the plan is to finish these that day so I can get onto the reblade project again Monday.

.094" 8670 and resin


.084" LC200N and G10

 

[David Mary]

 

[jbmonkey]

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very nice work as always David. whats that handle made of on the aqua blue/ reddish rust colored one?

 

[David Mary]

Thank you for the kind words JB. That one is a resin handle.

 

[jbmonkey]

Thank you for the kind words JB. That one is a resin handle.

thank you, Sir. very cool lookin...

 

[coolbreezy37]

Many of those "copper" rods are actually copper clad steel rods for Earth grounds. a 1" solid copper rod might be worth digging up at today's scrap prices.

Bill

Yep, “ground rods”. We always use 3/4”.

 

[David Mary]

Picked up a box of blades at the post office. I cut these by hand about three months ago, before I moved, then shipped them to Jarod, of course, and got them back today. It doesn't say "LOL" in sharpie, by the way, that is order "#707"



Decided on a few to work on today, and got 'em done.

 

[jbmonkey]

great bunch there.. thats an interesting one, David. whats the size of it blade wise?

 

[David Mary]

I think 4 1/2" or so.

 

[OutdoorsFamilyMan4]

Can’t wait to see what you do with that little blank and the brass

 

[Bob Denman]

Party Time is coming!!
WOO-HOO!!!

 

[David Mary]

Haha, I'm excited about each of these blanks and what I can do with them. jbmonkey I measured when I went into the shop and that knife you asked about has a 4" blade.

Today I nearly finished the last of the Prevails, which was awaiting the handle material to arrive. Slight address mixup after the move, but UPS got it right in the end, which impressed me. Anyway, here is a wip pic of it from earlier. It will need some more attention Thursday.



I made a sheath for a previously sold slicer I made in LC200N, after the gentleman came to drop it back off today.



And if all goes well, I'm hoping to get some work on the Cold Steel portion of my reblade project on Friday, which also happens to be Smokey's estimated birthday. He's going to be five years old.