Thread: What are you working on?

Looks great Pete! It's fun to work with wild shapes. Also, I'm a fan of double pins they look cool, and they're hard to do right. IMO.

Update on the Reaper re-scale...
My bog oak is out of reach atm and so a brother of the blade from far up north is sending me blanks. Awesome! Im very thankful for that generosity!
And so while I wait I'll be preparing the blade, though it is in great shape, it will take some hours of hand sanding to get perfect.
I'm also ordering a rough piece of gemstone to cut down for a wedge. Hopefully get a blood red look.
The trick with translucent "colored" wedges is that it will not necessarily be the same shade once pinned with scales covering most the surface area.. And so less light shining through.
So I'm picking the material a bit lighter shade to achieve proper color.
So far it's been a hard search. My criteria:
-Red
-Natural untreated (I collect gemstones and have always prefered this).
-Proper size.
-Not to expensive.
I have a nice tile cutter at work and a buddy who is a jeweler says he'll polish it smooth for me on his fancy jeweler equipment.
Sounds crazy I know, it's just a real special project for me, so I wanna go all out.

I am interested to follow your build and see what stone you use.

My first thoughts are coral or jasper.

Those are two of the top contenders, and what I know I can get just in case I can't get the others.
I keep getting drawn in to Garnet and Ruby. But ruby would be too expensive for the clarity I want.
In no order:
Jasper, Red tourmaline, Carnelian, Rubellite Tourmaline, Rhodolite Garnet, Pyrope Garnet, also maybe agate.
I'm sure there must be others.

This does sound interesting.

I'm looking forward to seeing how you do the final fit of the wedge and how you drill the hole for the pin.
I did a blue acrylic translucent wedge in white camel bone scales once. You are correct about it transmitting the light. Unless you hold it up to a light, it basically looks balck.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Pete <:-}

If it doesn't work out for ya Mike, I got some of this.
Don't remember what its called, Engine46 sent it to me for wedges. Blood red turquoise, is what it reminds me of.

~~~~~Hey guys, that's it for me right now. Talk to you all next year!~~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmcW7ktzBM

That has an excellent color, thank you I'll put it on the list of runners up. Is that a stone or plastic?
Pete's confirmation on the dimming helped me realize I've been looking at too dark of shades. And so if I go translucent then I need to pick a much lighter shade.

To see a fun wedge you would need clear scales and no bolsters.

Maybe 2% of the wedge is visible.

I have some fun copper in a red matrix from the UP that you would never see the copper.

Translucent poly carbonate hit the top of my list of east items to find and work with. Although if you are trying to hit it out of the park, it’s not fancy. It is functional and will show well. I am not sure about nesting a nice rock where it catches no light. I’m thinking you will not get much effect for your buck. You will know it’s there and it will forever be your razor.