Neat Stuff you bought and never used - yet

There is definitely something weird about those Tagua nuts! I got some too, almost a year ago ... they are still untouched. :confused:
What else I got ... oh yeah, that magic ;) buffing wheel that I used only once. Being tired of cleaning tiny scratches by hand (I play about making a knife from time to time), I got a sort of a buffing wheel that you put on an electric handdrill. You have a bar of polishing paste too and it is suposed to work like a dream for polishing anything. In reality this wheel is useless, you have absolutely no control over it and it leaves a very uneven finish :grumpy: . What was I thinking! Now I got back to the good old sandpaper.
 
Here is another one: I was looking for some special grinding belts yesterday. Found a box of about 100 odd ball micron belts and and the like. A real nice salesman used to call me once a month wanting to sell belts, he was too nice to say no to, I usually bought a few. Found they did not work on the steel I was using and just put them in a box for some future day. I wonder how much I invested in them??
 
Ed, that box of usless belts must be kind of like a box of donation receipts, huh? The salesman must know you are a generous man.
 
It took me a long time to learn to say no. They were deductable, just lucky I don't have to do an inventory tax! I saw him at Blade Show, almost ordered more belts. Then told him how they did not work for me and he said he understood. Still I flet a little guilty.
 
little slabs of Gibeon metorite for bolsters. I don't even want to cut it up. The darn stuff sells by the gram.
 
A 32" x 16" x 4/4" piece of highly figured Hawaiian Koa. I had it sitting around for about 6 years. I finally broke down and cut it to use on my first knife, I also gave a bit to J for his generous help. Pics of the nearly finished knife are on http://photos.yahoo.com/mjh215 I wanted my first knife to be special, so once the original handle blank was cut a bit too then, I broke out the Koa, I think I made a good choice. Hand forged 1095 for the blade, brass guard, black spacer, Koa handle (obviously) and a mosaic pin.

-MJ
 
TJ Smith said:
.Just found it haven't seen it for 20 years.
We should all clean out our shops and have a national yard sale day.
Take care
TJ
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haha maybe we should just swap junk with each other every 20 years or so :D pack rat my butt :footinmou top this... :D
they don't call my place a goat path for nothing..
you asked for it.. :D this is one corner and I many many more corners :barf:
If a blade goes flying from the buffer I may as well just make another one
as opposed too looking for it. it would save time :)

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I get lots of stuff. I mean I buy a "lot" from some old guy to get one or two choice pieces, but then have to take several more I don't have a clue what to do with. For instance; a box full of spring belts like what was used to run the take up reel on old 16mm projectors. How about a box or two of old projector lenses and various optical components? Perhaps some one has need for a box of various sized Bimba pnumatic actuators? A couple hundred varios sized idler wheels (most under 2" diamater x 1" wide). 50lbs of various sized sealed bearings still in original packaging? Maybe you need several hundred assorted plumbing fistures for air lines?

Then like Roger, there's the machine tooling I haven't found a use for yet, but will probably never part with like a complete set of old lantern style lathe tool holders that are too big for my lathe. Or a box of MT2 tapered shank large drill bits (don't own a tailstock, the lathe has a turret and all locations are straight bores). Anyone ever seen a Rockwell Univise? I hadn't until one day I was buying a surface grinder and the old fellow had one and suddenly I knew I had to have it. It'll come in handy one day when I get into grinding compound angles on tooling or fixtures. Some day.

Then there's all those knife making supplies that keep getting pushed aside so I can do small machining projects for someone else's projects.....

Guilty as charged.

John
 
Dan!
You are a man after my own heart! Looks like my shop! Question...do you ever have trouble putting your safety glasses down and then not being able to find them? Just curious...

I have a BUNCH of sambar stag that I am just hoarding. Will not sell and may never use. I also have a BUNCH of figured mesquite that is still drying out. I promised IG some last year that I have yet to send (but will once its cut which brings us to the broken chainsaw that I have yet to get a sprocket and bearing for!)

Then there is that really fine piece of oosic, the giraffe leg bone, etc.

Craig
 
C L Wilkins said:
Looks like my shop! Question...do you ever have trouble putting your safety glasses down and then not being able to find them? Just curious...
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That's why you buy safety glasses in bulk and distribute them all around the shop. Once a week or so you must re-distribute them to make sure they're spread out evenly around the shop for instant access instead of all being all collected in a pile by the door, or in my house, in the kitchen as it's closest to the shop..:)

John
 
:D Craig yes but like kind of like John said
once you loose enough of them they keep popping up here and there :D

oh I remember it was that Homely-lite for the parts right :confused: :D
 
Thanks to this thread I got ambitious this weekend and began to sort through my boxes of handle material and put it in an old tool box, a drawer full of black lip, some abalone, a small handfull of abalone dots in various sizes and at least two pounds of gibeon meteorite. Most surprising of all three sets of pearl scales nearly 1/4" thick...these ones are going to have to be used, maybe with the meteorite.

The next step is chasing down my various stashes of antler, sambar, whitetail, red deer, mule, moose and sika?(tiny little critters from a game farm near Ottawa).

Two years ago I was told by me accountant to do an inventory of my knife materials for year end.....never again, not that it was too difficult but the value of it shocked me. But then when you go to a show somewhere and there is something shiny and unique the old girl has a hard time passing it up.

Tucked away in a safe place somewhere is a 53 carat amethyst destined to become the jewel in the handle of a Scottish dirk that has been underway for couple of years with sterling silver hardware and a blackwood handle.
 
DAN, I think I saw something slither under the end of the bench :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


hehe five of those suckers is pretty enertaining. :D
 
Ok, I'm like the worst procrastinator in the world. I have unopened knifemaking equipment laying around in the garage/shop everywhere. I have wood and metal cutting band saws, work benches, boxes of stag/wood/micarta, steels, pieces of damascus. I have a 2 burner gas forge and an anvil that I have yet to set up and use. I even have a digital controlled Evenheat oven that has been sitting in the box for 3 years. One of these days, maybe I should clean up the garage and get some of this stuff out of the boxes!
 
Sweany said:
DAN, I think I saw something slither under the end of the bench :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


hehe five of those suckers is pretty enertaining. :D
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must have been a pet I havn't found yet :eek: :D


Danbo
if you need help braking in some of that stuff let me know I'd be glad to help:D
 
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