What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

[Natlek]

Working on first knife with gard ...................

 

[navman]

Natlek...those file knives are turning out VERY nice!

 

[Daado]

Finished Hellcat today (still have some balls left )

 

[Natlek]

Natlek...those file knives are turning out VERY nice!

Thanks ! I'm glad you like it Wait to see finished my first Puukko .................almost there

Four scale for one handle

I used transparent tape /glue side out / to wrap carbon ..............come out beautiful ....I will sand little and add new several layers carbon for finish...... .

 

[ten-six]

What to you guys think about the rear tang shape on the top blade?

I just finished one that was supposed to have that type of shape. My rookie eyes rounded the damn thing off....

 

[Jonathans]

Not a knife, but put together a swage block stand this weekend. I’ll post a video on how it works once its completed.

 

[JoshRG]

Finally got these done. Took longer than expected due to a delay on supplies but all good now.

 

[bike4fun919]

I just finished one that was supposed to have that type of shape. My rookie eyes rounded the damn thing off....

Easy to do! Here is the bottom one with the grind almost finished.

 

[Hengelo_77]

I've been working on these for a while.
I made checkered scales for this three finger knife, but wasn't happy with them.
I'm in to this to do the best I can, so take two.
Olive wood on thin ebony liners this time

Lookin' pretty

Lookin' good

For the indexfinger

The two brothers, the one in the back is black and white ebony on black ebony liners

 

[Kevin McGovern]

I like big burls and I cannot lie.

 

[Kevin McGovern]

I've been working on these for a while.
I made checkered scales for this three finger knife, but wasn't happy with them.
I'm in to this to do the best I can, so take two.
Olive wood on thin ebony liners this time

Lookin' pretty

Lookin' good

For the indexfinger

The two brothers, the one in the back is black and white ebony on black ebony liners

I really like that. Those grips would match the scales on my 1911 nicely.

 

[bike4fun919]

Hiking Buddy

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Took everyones advice and this is what i came up with

 

[Kevin McGovern]

With all the discussion of my trials with Nitro-V, I thought I'd share one of the first cracked blades. This started life as a large fighter with a 7" blade. Since Bob Ross taught me we don't "make mistakes", we have "happy accidents", it's now an American Tanto thing with a 5.5" blade. I don't really do a lot of these chisel points, but the way it cracked just called out for it.

 

[skillgannon]

With all the discussion of my trials with Nitro-V, I thought I'd share one of the first cracked blades. This started life as a large fighter with a 7" blade. Since Bob Ross taught me we don't "make mistakes", we have "happy accidents", it's now an American Tanto thing with a 5.5" blade. I don't really do a lot of these chisel points, but the way it cracked just called out for it. View attachment 907158 View attachment 907159 View attachment 907160
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Looks nice Kevin. Are those spacers G10 or Fiber?

 

[Rick Marchand]

Yep it is insulated, along with the obligatory satanite coating. I was having trouble getting proper kaowool here in Aus so i had to side with the generic ceramic refractory wool, which works fine, but the thickness is very inconsistent - so two layers were needed.

As for the vent... It doesn't really have one. The hole that the muffle pipe slides into has a slightly larger diameter than the muffle itself and that's pretty much the only thing that's currently acting as the vent. To be honest I wasn't exactly sure where i should put one. The plan was to assemble it and fire it up to see how the flame behaved so i could get a better idea on where to cut one out, but the whole thing just worked so i thought eh why bother.

Would cutting a vent still be worthwhile?

Oh yeah... it should have a vent, IMO. The burner will run better. Do you find that things are rusting in your shop? You should have the fumes vented.

 

[Kevin McGovern]

Looks nice Kevin. Are those spacers G10 or Fiber?

Thanks. G-10

 

[skillgannon]

Thanks. G-10

I like the look but it doesn't help me. I'm looking for blue and orange fiber

 

[Kevin McGovern]

Pops

I like the look but it doesn't help me. I'm looking for blue and orange fiber

carrys fiber. They don't show those colors, but you should call and ask. I use a lot of blue and orange g-10 spacer. Those colors are true and solid in g-10. Any reason for fiber over g-10?

 

[Jesse WW]

Oh yeah... it should have a vent, IMO. The burner will run better. Do you find that things are rusting in your shop? You should have the fumes vented.

If it helps it run better, i should definitely look at cutting a vent for it then! Heh things definitely do rust in my shop, but not to the current degree of that shell. It's like that because I left it outside so long before I got around to assembling it. Ventilation is not a problem because I drag the thing outside whenever I need it... my shop is quite small and I don't feel comfortable running it inside. I should definitely put some caster wheels on it to make wheeling it in and out the shop a lot easier!