What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

[David Mary]

I left the shop an hour ago but took this photo first. Phone had to charge though. Posting it now.

 

[jbmonkey]

Remember the knives I showed that I made Dad before I did this for a living, and my brother inherited after he passed? Then gave back to me. W decided I’m going to start correcting another one of them. This is hideous.

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what steel is it?

 

[David Mary]

Cooking pot.

 

[David Mary]

Kidding, of course. It's soft though. I think it's 1084. It's going to get the old "David Mary Custom" mark without a steel designation though, just to be on the safe side.

 

[DocJD]

Think of this: before today there were PVC pipes, lumber, chicken wire and other miscellany right above my head, some of it wrapped in plastic, lots of nooks and crannies, and three years worth of dust. Any time I bumped the rafters too hard with my head or if I was sweeping up and tagged one of them with the end of the broom handle, or if a mouse scurried up there, or a medium to large fly buzzed around, I’d be instantly showered in dust.

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There are various degrees of suck .

Better is better .

 

[RokJok]

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That chonky boi a little handle heavy, eh?