Progress Thread - The Redmeadow Bowies

[Melvin-Purvis]

Dark and gritty? I mighta dated her a few times...

 

[Mack]

Dark and gritty? I mighta dated her a few times...

I married her. Twice.
Where'd all these crickets come from?

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Where'd all these crickets come from?

Shhh, it's called, Progress...

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

The crickets of summer.

Ivory handle and spacers are fit, getting ready to mash a giant block of stacked leather. Went with blackwood and Richlite on the bronze one, I couldn't get the antler to look right. I'd post pics but I like to hear Sheldon whine about progress.

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Hahaha, dork! I do enjoy your work-in-progress threads.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Using some of the maroonish "Cabernet" paperstone with the Alt. Ivory. It's been a challenge to find the right spacer layout with these.

I'm looking into installing some kind of time lapse camera over my main workbench for better WIP stuff.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Need to stack up some leather.

Oh and Shel, I got my haircut

 

[T.Knotts]

Those are looking good! That ivory is going to really look classy.

 

[mitch4ging]

Looking really Nice!
Never been an all white ivory kinda of guy, but that does look great.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

We need some leathery stackness. Usually I make these individually but this should give me a block that I can cut into four handles.

I made one of them thar time lapse videos of cutting these out (thrilling, I know) but I couldn't get it to load here, I think the file was too big.

 

[Scott Hanson]

Need to stack up some leather.
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Oh and Shel, I got my haircut

Looking good so far can't wait to see them when their done.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Need to stack up some leather.
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Oh and Shel, I got my haircut

Oh my! That top one is going to be YUMMY!!!

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

I hadn't heard of paperstone until you mentioned it here, I wonder if polishing heat will change the colors? What's your take? I know, Google is my friend...

Glad you got the haircut; I'll try to post in the right thread next time.

 

[Mack]

Need to stack up some leather.
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Oh and Shel, I got my haircut

Um, wow!!!

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Some shapeshifters have had me on guard

The red in the Bowie will darken up a lot, the thing I like about it is that is has some character. It's not solid red like a PVC, there's almost like a smoky grain to it. The Richlite seems to be denser, but I think they both will make great handle material.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Got some leather compressed and thought this while I was doing it.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Soak, smash

Dry

Cut

Cube

Soak, smash, dry, cut, cube. Easy Peasy.

For the soak, I dilute some Dawn and white glue in water. Dawn to fight mold, the glue to help bond.

The smash compresses them so they can't shrink over time.

When they dry, I treat them like a solid block, drill them out and attach with epoxy.

Though it cuts easy, it's gotta be hell on the bandsaw blade!

 

[Dopic1]

Need to stack up some leather.
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Oh and Shel, I got my haircut

Wow, is an understatement those are looking mighty fine my friend.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Starting to get a family resemblance even with the tactical coated shop blade.

Going with a black richlite spacer capped with an 1/8" nickel silver plate on the butt end.

 

[T.Knotts]

Edit:. If I would have read the entire post I would have seen it was black richlite. Looking good!