Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by RezDog

That silly. This is Canada, people don't shoot people here. Mrs Chrétien did knock an intruder out with a bronze statue though, so in keeping with that Mrs Moss is likely to knock you out with an iron skillet. We may not be quick to draw around here but we have some really tough women. Hell hath no furry like a pissed off Canadian woman!

You never met my mother. In her prime 4' 11-1/2", very bright red hair. Slow to anger and then run for the hills. She had a reputation in our neighborhood as the go-to person when injustice, prejudice or plain old badness occurred. She was witnessed one busy five o'clock hour backing a woman, who had called her a red headed bitch in the back room to my face, down two blocks right thru the rush hour traffic. The local policeman stopped the traffic to let her continue, unabated across a busy boulevard. Our family's little grocery store experienced a several week increase in business as an after effect.

Let it be said she had little trouble raising three sons.

So as I am ready to pin-up something from here and there, I always revisit the pile.......

At times, seeing things almost done will spur the creation and improvement of other things.
In my mind, anyway!

So I came across these nice old picbone scales....That big old Electric would be great in those...
AHA! A John Heiffor blade with the Chicago Columbian Exhibition Horticulture Building!
Should be great with these 'leafy' scales. TBH, I dig old blade etches with colorful celluloid anyway.

One becomes two!
Austin's collars. Silver on the picbone and brass at the top of the celluloid.
A bit shorter and thicker wedge for the picbone. Here goes!

Got them done. Now I have painted myself into the honing corner...
4 to-do.
Gotta bust out the rocks!

I have never had a set of pick bone scales in hand. They look interesting enough. French fox antlers is guess.

Just bone, carved and dyed to simulate stag. Super thin.

Faux Tom the joke was that the french spelling of fox was faux. I know it was a little ways out there. Kind of playing off the French fox fur jacket I got my wife for Christmas.

moutonrouge, those scales are absolutely beautiful. I wasn't able to see them yesterday but so glad I got the chance today. Really special work there, flat out masterpieces.

Gawd....Honing... The top 3 got off the green Chosera with brown turd slurry thinned-out and popping hairs in 5-10 minutes each...



Razorfelds 'again rattler' was a pain.
Is it me, or do some old Sheffields seem to have that 'high angle' hone job more than most? Perhaps pasted-strop wear?
Over an hour of slurrying the green hone, one layer...now two. Back to one. Now two.
Pushing hard on the slurry while thinking "I shall NOT bust out the DMT" over and over.

Taking the top of the bevel off with one layer and trying to find the edge with two.
Wotta pain!

Finally got the thing popping hairs all the way around. Two new layers from here on out.

I like to go about 50 strokes on the 1000 SS after the Chosera.

I might just go 100 on Richard's!

I know they are both 1k hones, but the leap from the SS to the Norton 4/8 goes much easier if I do it that way.
At any rate, I will hit the Nortons to-morrow with this pile.
A Looong pyramid on Richard's rattler!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Faux Tom the joke was that the french spelling of fox was faux. I know it was a little ways out there. Kind of playing off the French fox fur jacket I got my wife for Christmas.

Sorry but 'This' yank just had to post this. No harm intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0kiiB3O-o

That is pretty funny Roy!