What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[David Mary]

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

 

[David Mary]

I'm pleased to announce I am working with oak again for the first time in as long as I can remember.

I think this coarse grained high hardness wood will suck the moisture out of the room and spit it back out with temperature and humidity fluctuations. It will then splinter and crack over time. Unless you keep it oiled. It is to handle materials what M2 is to knife steel. Not a good choice for uncontrolled environmental conditions but otherwise beautiful and strong for work all day long.

Also I slightly rounded the thumb ramp transition and removed the handle jimping and fell in love with at all over again further than before.

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

Well I failed. That maple burl I sawed with the sidekick proved too uneven for me to grind to equal thickness liners. I had to grind it off but then then rest of the scale could be ground flat and salvaged.

 

[David Mary]

Wood of the leopard, and others I know not.

 

[David Mary]

Oh bocote in the middle.

 

[David Mary]

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

looking good there

 

[Chronovore]

Or bartered as in the case of some 20 lb of green frogblanks wood a year ago. I've used quite a bit of it and it looks and feels really nice at 220 and 400 grit with mineral oil.

Here a box of some given, some bought and some bartered wood. I will use some from each category for the secret knife.

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That's not just any green Frogblanks. It's a custom color combination! It has been a David Mary Exclusive.

I recently rehabilitated an old oak table. I know what you mean about thirsty wood.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I think oak is an underutilized wood for scales.
I don't think I've ever worried about it's integrity, haha.... It's very durable.


One of my earliest experiences with it as a kid.
My grandfather aquirered many boards from a church remodel.
This Old church, from it's pews? And whatnot......
These boards were over 100 years old as boards. Now, probably over 150.
As boards. Maybe old growth stuff. It was oak, and it was HARD.
Every cut on the table saw burned. Even with new blades.
Router bits? Yup.....they definitely burned too. It was hard. Made for strong shelves.

Later, in shop class we learned about different woods/etc.
We worked with some oak. Our instructor made sure we knew the difficulties of dealing with This wood.
Haha. That wood, cut like butter! New stuff does.
I always wondered if the stuff I had from my grandfather was Petrified?

Take a piece of scrap and burn it a little. It's a cool look.
*If you ever torch the wood of knife handles, be careful not to heat them up too much, because of the epoxy.

Flamed oak, flamed maple, flamed cherry are all good.
I should try walnut. I really like burning it because of it's smell.....but then I feel a bit guilty. Fortunately I have trees.

 

[elof_alv]

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Don't use the do it in a pinch everything tool for your good wood silly!
Those Japanese extremly skinny saws will give you beautifull and clean cuts!

 

[David Mary]

Those Japanese extremly skinny saws

Ain't got any.

But I didn't need a clean cut on this, since it was to be shaped on the grinder afterwards.

 

[David Mary]

Clean platen in the hope of clean bevels. Sabervex grinds today. Ten of them!

 

[David Mary]

Let's go!

 

[David Mary]

Today, I will use punctuation. Punctuated text is easier to read. Punctuated grinding allows regular micro dosing caffeine.

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

A week of puttering yielded 10 fully assembled GKCs which now need handle shaping. That's them now:



And here are some pics from earlier. Bush buddy:






I told Chad earlier that I think these Bush Brute BBQ editions ( thinner stock) will take apart animals like legos. I stand by it.

 

[David Mary]

And parallel builds all from blanks given to me. Two bottom ones from CDHumiston , slightly modded per my tastes for course, two Lc200n blanks from TMcgee and the oak handles M2 R&D knife, steel given by Crag. With these I am experimenting with my process. The grinds are not quite finished on all of them as may be evident.

 

[David Mary]

Handles rough shaped.

 

[David Mary]

That was after 36 grit ceramic belts. Then processed through 60 and 150 grit AO, followed by the dremel for ergonomic refinement. Hand sanding tomorrow to bring it all together, and if all goes well, the rest also.