Your COVID19 responses (projects you’re doing), let’s see ‘em, and mine (86 splitback whittler mod)

[SteveC]

Thanks for the update !

 

[glennbad]

I’m sure I’m not alone in this but the last year did not go how I thought it would. I have never had less free time in my life than this last year. I’m a clinical administrator in a residential and outpatient facility so quarantine for me consisted of still going to work every day and if I wasn’t doing that it was doing home schooling with a kindergartner and a second grader who need a lot of hands on help. Their schools are fortunately in person now. The knife itself didn’t get much work after the last pictures I think. I redid at least one if not both of the secondaries and got everything fitted and functional. I would have had to add bolsters or create new liners and do a fair amount of finishing to make it decent. It didn’t seem worth the effort to be honest. I was hoping for something larger and with a longer main than the grinling but the blade needed to shortened to fit. In the end it was fun to work on and figure everything out but a finished product would add nothing to my life and if it doesn’t do that it’s not worth it.

Kinda summed up many people's 2020...I'm bummed that I didn't get to see the final product, but your other "projects" last year were far more important and rewarding.

 

[glennbad]

Scrimshandry.

You are seriously talented.

 

[r8shell]

You are seriously talented.

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment. I'm in envy of your knife-modding skills.

 

[glennbad]

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment. I'm in envy of your knife-modding skills.

Baahhh, I've seen some of your mod work also!

 

[madebyhand]

I decided to use up some of the scrapes from my shop to make lanyard beads - nothing fancy but some of the cutoffs are from knife handles so I thought a matching bead might be fun.

 

[Sacto]

Another thing I started doing with my time at home is making yo-yos on my lathe. It’s pretty goofy but it’s been fun and an interesting challenge.

I’ve used mostly wood, but the white one is made out of a chunk of plastic from a water tank we cut up. I made them with a threaded axle covered by a wood sleeve, so they can be taken apart to remove knots.

 

[JohnDF]

You are very handy.
They look fun to make and fun to play with.

 

[Sacto]

You are very handy.
They look fun to make and fun to play with.

Thanks, John. The lathe is relatively new, so I’m still figuring things out. I’ve been playing around with yo-yos since I was a little kid. It’s fun to mess around with them with my kids now. I guess the take-apart design makes these “modern traditionals”.

 

[TE59]

My wife bought me a forge last year. I've forged two knives so far (and made 3 stock removal).

So I'm brand new at it.

I've only forged two knives. Top one is 10xx steel. First forged knife. (Bottom is 15n20 stock removal, but first knife I heat treated in my new forge).

Great looking knives.

 

[CelloDan]

Walnut and Iroko wood bowls

 

[CelloDan]

I can't be trusted with sharp objects

 

[Sacto]

I can't be trusted with sharp objects

Holy cow. That’s amazing! Just the finish work alone is impressive, not to mention all the lathe work first. Really beautiful.

I have a relatively new lathe, but I’ve been scared to try to tackle a bowl project.

 

[CelloDan]

Holy cow. That’s amazing! Just the finish work alone is impressive, not to mention all the lathe work first. Really beautiful.

I have a relatively new lathe, but I’ve been scared to try to tackle a bowl project.

Thank you my friend , I have been going at it for the past few days.

Woodturning is a sort of therapy for me as it helps me deal with stress through periods when it gets a bit much.

I am happy as this year I have been able to do it much more ( it helped that I came in contact with a source for wood. Procuring wood was always the hard part for me )

Go for it my friend , it's just practice, some broken bowls and a lot of you tube instructional videos watched

I find turning wood sort of hypnotizing LOL

 

[Hickory n steel]

Stacked leather rehandle on a Buck 102.



It turned out better than I expected it to, it was pretty much a failure and I was gonna scrap it but decided to try and salvage it and the results aren't half bad.

 

[glennbad]

I can't be trusted with sharp objects

Wonderful work!

 

[Sacto]

Thank you my friend , I have been going at it for the past few days.

Woodturning is a sort of therapy for me as it helps me deal with stress through periods when it gets a bit much.

I am happy as this year I have been able to do it much more ( it helped that I came in contact with a source for wood. Procuring wood was always the hard part for me )

Go for it my friend , it's just practice, some broken bowls and a lot of you tube instructional videos watched

I find turning wood sort of hypnotizing LOL

I’ve been enjoying the lathe more than I thought I would. I can definitely see the therapeutic side to it.

I have the wood, so I’ll go for it on the bowl pretty soon. Like you said, I just need to spend a little time on YouTube first.

 

[CelloDan]

Wonderful work!

Thank you Glenn

Here is something I had not planned for but I think is soo cool

As i was turning this black locust bowl I noticed the branch sticking out.
It just so happened that with a little bit of planning once I noticed it the branch fell exactly in the middle of the bowl wall.

 

[JohnDF]

That's super cool, Dan.

 

[JohnDF]

Belt sheath...