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Just finished this one. Alabama Damascus, ivory micarta, SS bolsters and liners, brass shield and pins.
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finally worked on knives after about 3 months, met with Mike Shindel of @bladeandhammer at his shop.
He learned how to work on laminated Japanese steel using a kitchen knife design I made.
Mike did much of the forging, and I guided him in the HT. I did alot of the grinding
Mike will finalize the handles for our "collaboration"

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HSC /// said:
finally worked on knives after about 3 months, met with Mike Shindel of @bladeandhammer at his shop.
He learned how to work on laminated Japanese steel using a kitchen knife design I made.
Mike did much of the forging, and I guided him in the HT. I did alot of the grinding
Mike will finalize the handles for our "collaboration"
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Oh yeah! Love it.
 
I've finally gotten around to tilting my kmg and putting a second arm slot below my main slot. It's something I've wanted to do forever and just kept putting off. I tried to do it a different way and was never happy with it. Sometimes the simplest way is the best. And I don't know if there's any other mods I can do to it. You can hardly tell there's a kmg under there.
I also decided to try my disc sander horizontally.
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The OSB is temporary, it was there already so instead of cutting a hole in new wood, I figured I'd test it on this cheap stuff first.
 
Josh Rider said:
I've finally gotten around to tilting my kmg and putting a second arm slot below my main slot. It's something I've wanted to do forever and just kept putting off. I tried to do it a different way and was never happy with it. Sometimes the simplest way is the best. And I don't know if there's any other mods I can do to it. You can hardly tell there's a kmg under there.
I also decided to try my disc sander horizontally.
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The OSB is temporary, it was there already so instead of cutting a hole in new wood, I figured I'd test it on this cheap stuff first.
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Josh, The mods you made look to be well thought out and accomplished. Your grinder will be much more versatile now. You need a easy to use work rest. Try one similar to this. Larry
JoshRG said:
Wow! HSC & Comet_sharp those kitchen knives are looking amazing!
Josh, Those are really nice crisp grinds. Are you grinding your swedges with a small wheel? Larry
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Larry, I really found the need to flip it when I tried keeping both sides of a folder symmetrical. Hopefully this helps. I definitely want a good work rest.
I think your picture uploaded wrong, but if my knives came out like Josh RG's, I'll take it!:D
 
Yeah I need to do something like that on my horizontal. Getting the top and bottom of handles square before contouring is a struggle without it.
 
Got these lovely peices of wood today! The left one is spalted Jatoba the right one is African Blackwood. Hoping to make mom a wa handled kitchen knife for Christmas with these woods. Sorry for the pics.

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Off to be HT'ed
Two gentlemen knives like in my avatar, a testpiece, a puukko and a parring knife for our kitchen here and to test some idea's I have

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A handle idea for one of the blades above here. It will have three black pinns in the middle of the handle

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