What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[David Mary]

I started by trying to strengthen the detent on my Resilience but after hitting the detent hole and testing four times with no increase in force required to open I moved on rather than risk detent slop.

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

Some of my favorite shop tools

 

[lmalterna]

I like the looks of that blue slabbed knife.

Bill

 

[David Mary]

Good morning everyone, I took yesterday off to recover from a more than usual intensity workout, and to reset. Set my alarm for 6:00 am today, and got up at..... 5:40 haha. I used to workout in public parks, doing pull ups and squats, and pushups and burpees, etc. People would ask me all the time "what are you training for" and the only answer I could ever come up with was "life". But now I have a new answer: "So I can make more guys nice knives".

 

[David Mary]

And gals, if they want, but I can't think of even one lady who has hired me on Bladeforums in almost three years as a maker for my livelihood.... and less than a handful outside the forum.

 

[Wild Willie]

And gals, if they want, but I can't think of even one lady who has hired me on Bladeforums in almost three years as a maker for my livelihood.... and less than a handful outside the forum.

But how many of us have hired you to make a knife FOR a special lady? My mom loves her edchefs

 

[David Mary]

This is true and brings me the perspective I was missing. Thank you.

 

[David Mary]

Started with EDChefs

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

Dabadee

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

I get it messy at times

 

[BennyBlade]

I forgot to mention I worked today on a knife to send out to be reviewed by a couple of YouTubers. Here it is at the moment. There is a bit of final finishing left to do on it, and it needs a sheath.

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I really like this blue. Nice knife...

 

[David Mary]

Okay the blue EDChef is being pressed now and that makes all of them getting done tonight. The tanto can wait a little longer. Next drilling and profiling and heat gun tweaking oh my

 

[David Mary]

I really like this blue. Nice knife...

Thank you!

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

So I cut the sheath for the giveaway knife a little too small and had not quite enough room for eyelets. Everything else is still ticking along.

 

[David Mary]

Mmmm I have time

 

[David Mary]