What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Bob Denman said:
So who else is going to send him some "Gorilla White"??
It's, "Pay it forward" time! 😁👍
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Hahaha well my next stops on the shop supply list are belts, angle grinder cut-off wheels, sanding drums, #8-9 1/4" eyelets, and Boltaron, in that order. Gorilla glue should be at the bottom of the list for some time now thanks to your gratuitous act of benevolence, which will help me take care of the rest of the list that much sooner.
 
I really should take care of all that myself. One supply run to Red Label Abrasives, CKK industries, and Canadian Tire will help me make about a couple/few dozen more knives, depending on size, etc. It would cost me the sale price of three or four knives to make said run. And hopefully those three or four knives will bring continual joy to those who added to me.

Here are my latest efforts to that end. You'll find the rest of the pics in the exchange soon: Hope you don't mind chicken scratch ;)

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This one is experimental, and the scale design wasn't originally intended for this knife, but some switcheroos too place and I didn't like how far forward I drilled the front pin on the handle either. Sub par execution of something I plan to nail down tight next time. Plan it from the start, and a different scale build method with respect to pin hole placement.

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jlauffer said:
Like the honeycomb scale pattern
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Agreed. Those are some very sweet knives.

I love the look of this:
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But the handle design of this one looks insanely comfortable.

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You're really coming along with those multi-material handles. That's some darn fine work!
 
I'll have to catch up on forum reading later. I'm still in the shop. Couldn't leave these unfinished today. I have a small window to make whatever I want before the hawkbills show up and the acid for the damascus. I have my hood up and the skeeters are dying in greate numbers as I learn efficient technique.
 
So let's see..... went to bed really late Tuesday night, despite having been up all day, then woke up at 6:27..... Fine, I had knives to package and ship today. So I dilly dallied around and got them packaged up over the course of.... a few hours. I can't tell you how many chess games I played in that time as well. You know for how much I play, I should have a rating at least double what it really is.

Then I got to the post office and handed over everything to Lisa. Fern was working too, so we all chatted, as we are wont to do. Turns out the package from Kansas that I thought was missing was actually one I picked up two weeks ago, but the sheer hilarity ( :rolleyes: ) of my non-stop [not-actually-a-]dad-jokes caused one of the poor ladies enough distraction that she forgot to take that tracking number out of the system. Seeing me on Friday when I picked up the package of glue from Bob triggered her memory and my half a week's confusion in one fell swoop.

Then I went in to the shop for the obligatory bout of navel gazing that occurs when I am about to decide what to make next, until I finally settled on the ones I posted above.

I was about to include a fifth knife, but I decided four in a shift was ambitious enough and I didn't need to go overboard. So I started with heat treated, unground blanks, around 2:30 pm, and finished the four above shown. When I looked at the watch hanging from my belt loop as I was about to mount my steed for the journey home, I noted 2:20 am. 2:40 as I arrived at my front step, indicating 4-6 minutes worth of headwind, which I certainly noticed on my ride.

I wish my Apple Phone-of-i didn't have a "storage full" warning, or I would have gathered more visual approximations of real world objects to share with you all. I guess I need to go through my text message history and delete old photos.... again.

Anyway, here are some digital representations of 3D matter and my interactions with it today (ahem yesterday) for your visual consumption.


Boxing practice
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I've started including Jarod's business card with knives he heat treated
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Part of the navel gazing process
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An example of my high tech tools and exquisite penmanship
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A duplicate photo for chronological continuity
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Pics intended for another thread but shown here as well
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A video in the next post. Just to break the chronology hahaha
 
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