Thread: What are you working on?

Happy new year men!
May the next be better than the last!
Health and happiness I wish for you all.

Happy New Year gents!

Been awhile since I could actually do some heavier restoration work. And when I did it was outside, with a buncha people looking at me weird. You don't see guys grinding on an apartment blacony all that often. Since I bought a house in May (my first), I have a 2.5 car garage to work in ��

Have a Eric Anton Berg blade that needed some new shoes. Got the scales cut out and ready for some closer shaping later today/tomorrow.

A neat yarn about this blade. Met a nice lady at an antique expo in town, turns out she was selling her grandmother's (God rest her soul) hoarde collection. But she never hoarded garbage, she hoarded anything but and good quality. Couldn't say nuffin' bout the jewlery (a metric ton) but had a number of great blade. Walked away with a couple from Sweden, a Frederick Reynolds (i think...) and a solid Genco, for $75. Told her she was low (I suck at haggling and don't like to totally swindle folk). She said fine 80.







Gotta get some thicker work gloves so my hands don't freeze after 20 min.

Nice looking blade! What's the scale material ?

Working still on a little logo project.
For a fellow member so I want it perfect.
Started thinking I’d use the lasermatic, which is great for inlay pocketing on synthetic substrates, but not so much on horn for gold inlay work I think.



So dust off the engraving rig and give that a go,


Much cleaner lines with a micro V bit I think.
Almost ready to hit the main event..
Cheers.

I wonder who that could be for. Lol. Nice job. Fancy tools. Id have to use a knife and carve it.

Thanks Jerry, but the tools are home built kits(unfancy) to replace the shaky hands that used to be able to carve and such, hehe.
Although to be honest, I was never this good by hand,,,

I had a fun road trip today and visited Geezer. I had some lead blocks that the shipping would have been prohibitive so a good excuse for a Sunday drive on a cold day.

In exchange he gave me some barber hones and this knot for a brush.

A good reason the finish the project started about 2 years ago in Iowa. Skipnord was giving a demo about turning and to make a long story short I saved a piece of wood from the firewood we were using and we, mostly he, made this handle

About time I finish this project!



I had to put a paper towel under it because the oak blended so much with the kitchen table.

Any of you guys need any cigar boxes? If anyone is interested I'll post pictures. Wanted to use them, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Cigar boxes? I love cigar boxes! Virtually any kind of box I like.
But my wife has limited the number of boxes I'm allowed..
Lol
But honestly, I have a bunch of them in storage and plan on getting more at some point when I have my own space..
I would love to convert some cigar boxes to somewhat air-tight straight razor boxes... 7 day sets..
The projects are piled up waiting for the kids to head off to boarding school!

Originally Posted by MikeT

Cigar boxes? I love cigar boxes! Virtually any kind of box I like.
But my wife has limited the number of boxes I'm allowed..
Lol
But honestly, I have a bunch of them in storage and plan on getting more at some point when I have my own space..
I would love to convert some cigar boxes to somewhat air-tight straight razor boxes... 7 day sets..
The projects are piled up waiting for the kids to head off to boarding school!

Had similar plans, but I'm not going to have the time or workspace in the near future.