Thread: What are you working on?

Getting the knots in

looks good Rocarule, I like the twisted handles on the scuttle how do the brushes fit with the mouth
what size ar ethe brush handles work out to be

I don't they are for kids age 6-13 but LOL

The knots are 22mm and the openings on the handles are 22.5-23.5mm the depth of the hole is about 8mm.

Height ~70mm

Originally Posted by rocarule

Out of the oven (kiln)
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Really nice!!!

From this (beautiful scales but ineffective blade)



And this (effective and beautiful blade)



I tried to get the best of the two :

Resizing with diamanted tools



And rescaling





I found him a friend with an elegant nose



And they're going to rest together

The very last one I worked on.

Latest haul from eBay. Updates to come!

Just got done making some scales out of my favorite wood at the moment, Buckeye burl. They're for a Frederick Reynolds, 13/16ths hump back I've had sitting here for a lot longer than it should have been. I've been dying to get this completed and have a shave with it.

It's been a while.
Today I finished this: Yep, that's a lancet grind. A big grinning lancet grind. And as if that wasn't challenging enough, the tang was specified to be the same thickness as the middle step, so they had to seamlessly connect. This was the most challenging grinding I've done so far.


And then I hooked up my new forge fire and gave it a test run.
First I heat treated this:


Then I annealed this (I forge welded the stainless inserts last week:


And then I quickly hammered out 2 9/8+ blades.
EDIT: just in case you'd be wondering why I left the tang of the top one so lumpy: that's not laziness or ineptness. For that blade I have something in mind for which I need enough steel to work with (notches and filework)


I also did some more forge welding, but I am not going to show it because it is a special project and the prospective owner doesn't know what he is going to get. Finally I finished ebony scales for SRD's next blade. I now have many blanks in my 'annealed' box so next week is going to be 'steel week' where I'll spend the entire friday grinding and filing.