Thread: What are you working on?

WD-40 0000 steel wool and 5gallons of elbow grease.

Devils spit could be the next new thing........ya just never know.



Not sure how many gallons of elbow grease he has already gone through yet. But I hear the hardware stores in Canada have been running low on their stock

Mike those scales are looking awesome! Can't wait to see the final product.

I got most of the work done on the "bicycle" Torrey last night, but I had to save the pinning for this morning. I was going to hit the snooze button on the alarm but the thought of getting this finished got me out of bed. I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. It's always a fine line when working on an etched blade like this. I tend to lean towards preserving the etch and living with some of the imperfections. I blued over the ectch and polished over the top to darken it up a bit. I couldn't seem to get a decent picture of it. Either too much reflection or not enough light. The etch apears light but it's nice and dark in person.

Likewise, that Torrey is a rebuilt bicycle for one! Scales look brand new.
Nice work.

And voila'

Should be off in the mail tomorrow.
Pm me your addy info once more please G.
G10 is nice stuff to carve actually..
Cheers.

That looks amazing Mike, as usual

All the work going on in here is just amazing, you guys are totally top notch

Well the Clauss magnetric had some pretty bad pitting on the toe that I never noticed untill I started to hone it. Took a while on the 1K to get it to good metal. But shaved with it this morning and was a darn tooting fine shave if I do say so myself. Now I have this WB with lines on the blade, looks like it was honed with them there. I have removed the rust but any ideas on what I should do about the blade?

Nice to hear you had such a great shave.
In order to make it smooth you are going to have to remove quite a bit of metal, those lines look pretty deep. Sanding or buffing are going to be your only options, unless of course you have a belt grinder.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Nice to hear you had such a great shave.
In order to make it smooth you are going to have to remove quite a bit of metal, those lines look pretty deep. Sanding or buffing are going to be your only options, unless of course you have a belt grinder.

Is it worth the effort or should I just leave them?

That is a personal choice really. There are some pits in there along with the lines, which would have to be deeper than the lines, so if you are wanting to get to a gloss/smooth finish for the entire blade it is going to take a lot of material removal. If you are up for the task you can start sanding. Personally it is unlikely I would put that much effort in. You can start with some 600 and see where it goes. If it looks like it will take too long revert to a grit progression and leave it. If you have a vibrating tumbler that would be great for cleaning and shining this one without removing all that metal. WD-40and 0000 steel wool will clean it too.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Likewise, that Torrey is a rebuilt bicycle for one! Scales look brand new.
Nice work.

And voila'

Should be off in the mail tomorrow.
Pm me your addy info once more please G.
G10 is nice stuff to carve actually..
Cheers.

Mike that is amazing work! That came out unbelievable!!! It looks just like it was done at the factory and I'm so glad you went with this method of doing the letters. It looks even better than I imagined it would. Very nicely done, I can't thank you enough! It's just straight up cool that you took the time to do this project and gave it such fine attention. I'm really looking forward to putting it together!