Thread: What are you working on?

Dang your son has real talent!
It's okay, whether or not he comes back to it. Because the simple fact that he was able to create beautiful things I'm sure it helped him in many ways.

Awesome shop! Must be a pleasure.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Man! That shop is hard-core! My razor-restoring stuff would fill a laundry tub.
Drill-press excluded......

minimal tools are actually needed. Tools in a general purpose save time. Tools etc. cost money.
Do I have more money or time?

A conundrum we all face.

Do I enjoy doing things in a "simple" way?

I have been looking at my garage lately and thinking of its deficiencies and things I would change.

Looking back at the time when I built it I look back and think I made good decisions at the time and understand why I did at the time.

Here I am wandering off topic again.............

Mmmm, I like workshops,
Looks like you son has some real talent, and I too hope he finds his way back to the bench..
My gramma always said most kids are good, even if they don’t know it yet, and as they know better, they will do better..
Give em a path, and a compass.
From what I’ve seen, you’ve done all that and more..
Nice space to keep warm for him while he grows..
Have fun!

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

And yet you're probably the most prolific guy on this site, Tom. It was supposed to be a knife-making shop (and hopefully someday will be again). I just learned (am learning) my way into the tools. Here's the last knife my son made before he just up and quit: a big hunter with cocobolo scales and a beautiful worked spine:
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Do you see why I was so disappointed that he gave it up?

Its hard to sit still, when we were young. I found that I have many talents that I'm good at, but my best talent's reside in fishing.

Doest matter what species, time of year, technique, or tackle. Family members swear I can think like a fish, even. But...I've been at it, since I was in diapers, no lie.!

So let's hope he finds himself, and can add this to his remarkable talents with steel. An amazing blade maker he would make, with the right desire and drive.

BTW...Totally awesome, shop.

Great set up!

Yes, he is a lucky and talented young man. You're doing a great job Brother, he'll find his way. we were all there at one time or three

Thanks for the encouraging words, guys. He is 21 now, and has actually turned out okay. He works with my neighbor who owns a tree service two doors down; his boss is as good a man and fine a mentor as I could ask for, so it seems to be working out. They get along great, he makes decent money, and gets to work outside (he wouldn't last 2 days in an office, I am certain).

And Mike, he grew up fly-fishing for trout in the mountains with me (my other obsession), but is now obsessed with fishing carp tournaments (whatever-I fish to get AWAY from competition and other people, but whatever makes him happy and keeps him out of jail is good with me).

When my first child was born, my mother had some words of wisdom for me. They come to us predetermined. They already have their personalities, their quirks, and their attributes. The best we can possibly hope for as parents, is to position ourselves to be good guides, and teach them some manners. I take the guide part seriously. I’m glad you two have had a great amount of activity together over the years, it’s when the real guiding takes place.

Originally Posted by RezDog

When my first child was born, my mother had some words of wisdom for me. They come to us predetermined. They already have their personalities, their quirks, and their attributes. The best we can possibly hope for as parents, is to position ourselves to be good guides, and teach them some manners. I take the guide part seriously. I’m glad you two have had a great amount of activity together over the years, it’s when the real guiding takes place.

Your mother sounds like a very wise person, Shaun-I've always said that kids are born with a personality, and that is up to us to guide them as best we can. Anyway, back to razors, here's a technical question for you bone experts: Using Austin's advice to get the outsides flat, and then flatten/thickness the insides with the marrow pockets to about 2.5 mm using a home-made jig, I'm getting close to that, but you see my problem in the pic. I've still got some serious marrow pockets, and that one channel. What do you guys do about this? Could I mix some fine bone dust in with some epoxy, and fill it in that way? This seems too deep for any kind of CA trick? Any help here is appreciated!

Thanks-A-aron

You can go quite a bit thinner. My current go to for bone thickness is 0.080”. 2.5mm is 0.100, so if you go thinner it will help you gain some ground, and then check your layout to see if you can work around the marrow dips.

Between some of my less razor specific projects I decided to go back and correct a flaw on a W&B I'd previously "finished". When I got this, the blade closed to the right, when I "finished" it, it closed to the right, but I really just wanted to try the shave so I left it. I recalled I had used a 1/16" not a 5/64" bit to re-drill the tang hole and thought that might have been the culprit. Nope still closed right bad enough to hit the scales if you didn't guide it closed. Tried again with some more aggressive directional pinning, nope still the same. I'd been cutting my pin stock to approximate length before pinning and one night I decided to pre-peen one end of my long stock so I could just cut to length after assembly. Went to pin it up using the long pin stock and noticed this:



The pivot holes weren't aligned. Maybe I messed up the alignment when sanding the scales? I hadn't noticed it before with the shorter micro bolts and pin stock. So I filled the hole and re-drilled, still a bit to the right but the blade doesn't need guiding and doesn't hit the scale.



Still not perfect, but much happier with it now and learned a little.