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

[AVigil]

 

[bike4fun919]

First run oyster knife for me.

 

[DanF]

DIW, 15n20, brass bolster w/ African blackwood spacer and offset brass pins.

 

[ashwinearl]

CDORE, Wow! Beautiful! Ashwinearl, love those two. How long is the blade on the alt ivory one?

Hi, Thanks for the kind words.
The blade on the alternative ivory mini kwaiken is 2 3/8", OAL 6 3/8"

 

[ashwinearl]

Forward progression on the mini-kwaikens. Now onto leather sheaths.

 

[Hengelo_77]

I like the shape of you mini-kwaiken, I'd like to see them un-etched

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Finally got the whole thing back together, still have to finish the pin holding the lockspring and polish it all up.

 

[skillgannon]

My first blade in S35VN. I'm pretty happy with this one since it goes in my kitchen. I enjoyed working with it. I ground it after hardening and was surprised how easy it was to work with. It was .140 stock so it's a lot thicker than I am used to but I gave it a good distal taper and it has a nice feel.

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Apparently I enjoy torturing myself. This is attempt #3,478

 

[OccamsBlade]

Finished shaping the handle on this Kwaiken. Just needs a little more hand sanding and polish to make er pop, a little more detail work on the blade, then on to some pants for this lil guy. I'm thinking a wooden saya of some sort.

 

[ashwinearl]

I like the shape of you mini-kwaiken, I'd like to see them un-etched

Thanks for the kind words.

I've been working in simple carbon steels for the ability to heat treat at home. My problem is I just look at them wrong and they stain. I have some 440c I've been needing to do something with. I may do a run and send them out to JT.

 

[Jesenius]

Finished few kitchen knives a month ago but just finished pictures.

This is first one, Ak5Mo (1.4116) steel cca 2mm (max) thin, ~57 HRc, all corian handle with stainless pins and red fiber, overall about 320 mm.

 

[Jesenius]

Seems to be liked...

Finished second batch of pictures. Same steel, bit smaller, blade 1.6 mm thin (max), overall length cca 300 mm. Handle corian with brown canvas micarta, stainless steel pins and black fiber.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Jesenius, I look forward to seeing them but right now nothing is showing up in your 2nd post where your pictures should be.

 

[Hengelo_77]

no pics for me either

 

[Jesenius]

My apologies. Sometimes I fighting with Google picture share services and post wrong link. Corrected, it should be ok now.

 

[Horsewright]

Christmas is a coming.

From here:

To here, hand sanding the handles till late last night:

The wood handles are done first as they are generally more involved. Can ya name all the woods?

Then the rest:

Here is the bowie I was working on in the grinding pics:

To the buffers today and sheaths tomorrow. Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming.

 

[skillgannon]

Man even cheap iron wood looks good. I bought a big batch on fleebay and it is one of my favorites. These will look better once they are cleaned up and taken to a higher grit and possibly waxed.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

My shop after the Alaska quake

 

[Hengelo_77]

Bummer, Josh!
Just a mess or did stuff break?