Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

It's outline is somehow carved into the bone and the rest of the scale is dyed black.....How did they do that

That really looks like an inlay to me, you sure it’s one piece?
The grain looks different slightly to me, may just be the pic..
Really purdy regardless!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Meaning they were done recently, Tim!

belonging to or occurring in the present.
"the tension and complexities of our contemporary society"
synonyms: modern, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, fashionable;

Yes looking at adjective #2

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cont...hrome&ie=UTF-8

I think a more up to the minute thing..

Mike, I see what you are saying, but I don't think an inlay at all. Look at the natural one I posted above?
I will get close-ups on several tomorrow. Maybe!

Any way ya slice it they are sweet looking scales. Gonna be a nice set.
Just getting home from a long work day and getting caught up on some threads.
Such nice works going on round these parts gents!

Makes me wonder if it wasn't waxed before dying.
Lots of new things, out there in the graphics world.

The blade is one of the new super steels - VG10. It gets wickedly sharp and holds its edge longer than 440C. The line on the blade near the cutting edge is where they coat the VG10 with another stainless steel which makes it stronger.

The scales are Box Elder Burl. I've become a fan of that wood for scales because the little burls are small and tight, which looks good on smaller projects like straights and knives.

Originally Posted by outback

Makes me wonder if it wasn't waxed before dying.
Lots of new things, out there in the graphics world.

I’m with you on this. I’m thinking it was punched, waxed, then dyed.



Makes sense to me?

After using my high-tech magnification and looking at all my examples, I have determined that B52 is right, as usual......Natural bone inlay on dyed-bone. Tight work....





I was wrong again!

I got this Case off the work bench and into the to be honed tin. I am not the first to work on this blade. The last guy coated it in varnish afterwards. It was pretty much a scrape the varnish and give it a light polish.

Nice Case there, Rez! What tang stamp does it have?

Just wrapped up a slow day at work pinning my other 6 F Herders...... Tedious stuff. Recalled and used lots of tricks learned previously!
All went a bit nice with exception of 2.....Had one with a slight tang issue. Fixed that with a different set of scales it liked better and some oversized pivot holes and a bit of grinding on the inside of the tang where it was hitting. The big high-riding #30 at the right was a bear. Ground really thin, it wanted to poke-out the bottom.
Wound-up using a set I thought I had ruined by over-grinding the wedge. Had it apart 10 times, I think! All are closing nicely.
Anyway, a few will need some black epoxy for little gaps on the wedge end where a ham-fisted guy could not get it perfect.

Never tried packing in some bog dust and dribbling in CA. Think that will work, outback?