What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[DocJekl]

Why don’t I bark texture your new Prevail DocJekl ?

I think I want my "fancy pants" knife to stay as smooth as a baby's butt, while my heavier "work" knives should have something like a "bark" texture. I want to be able to (without any innuendo here) handle, finger or fondle my Prevail like a worry stone or fidget toy to sooth my nerves.

 

[Wild Willie]

I think I want my "fancy pants" knife to stay as smooth as a baby's butt, while my heavier "work" knives should have something like a "bark" texture. I want to be able to (without any innuendo here) handle, finger or fondle my Prevail like a worry stone or fidget toy to sooth my nerves.

The term used over in the traditional sub forum is "chicken eye and coon finger".

 

[David Mary]

Riddle, riddle, violin, not fiddle,
A knifemaker lacking precision machining,
Did this instead, what could be the meaning?

 

[Wild Willie]

Riddle, riddle, violin, not fiddle,
A knifemaker lacking precision machining,
Did this instead, what could be the meaning?

That you're recycling the shavings into damascus...

 

[David Mary]

Nice try!

Actually the shaving will be joining that strip of annealed 8670 in the “machined” slot that I put in as an afterthought once the tang frame was already glued to the outer scale. I realized that I would benefit from a few extra ounces of weight in the handle.

So it will be a glue/filing slurry and just a bit more weight.

Welcome to David Mary custom, where the ideas are weird, and sometimes a bit late, but they somehow end up working.

 

[David Mary]

This was actually a different design altogether with a different handle. Basically redesigned on a whim to be a sword instead of a huge chopper.

 

[David Mary]

Bet you wish you had a micarta glue spreader!

 

[David Mary]

MagnaCut and leopardwood with white liners and thin brass cylindrical objects

 

[David Mary]

MagnaLap Wharnifiber with burcutficent tubes.

 

[David Mary]

Remember Astroboy? At the end of the show he’d recap the episode’s story with a mistake but ask you to find the incorrect detail. How on earth I remember a show from my single digits I’m not really sure.

Silver hawks. Sounds like the band you start when you turn fifty five…. I’m not there yet lol

 

[David Mary]

Sometimes it’s just safer to do handle geometry before blade geometry.

 

[David Mary]

What happens when you forget you have an extra coffee and you eat through most of the 24 grit belts you bought for 3V before it even gets here?

 

[David Mary]

Very well I just tell

 

[Hurrul]

Very well I just tell

Can't stop, won't stop.

 

[David Mary]

True, apparently. As I have since that post spent more time on it with 120 and then scotchbrite belts even causing one to explode on the grinder.

 

[David Mary]

What keeps me up at night, you ask?

This:

 

[oldmanwilly]

What keeps me up at night, you ask?

This:

How many skeeters can you cleave with it?

 

[David Mary]

All

 

[David Mary]

In other news, my cat is probably looking up apartments in the classifieds by now so I better actually get back there and give him a bowl of something to stay home for. I’ve done enough for today.

 

[David Mary]

A day of hand sanding and these are almost done. Hope is tomorrow makers marks and sheaths and Friday ship.

This is an out of date pic. I refined the handle some more after this.