Thread: New tools

Doc was a knife maker. That is what all the blocks of wood were for. There were many more than what is in the picture. The wood is for the knife handles.
Doc was known for the beautiful handles on his knives. A few years ago he gave me most of his wood. Two great big garbage cans full!
It is hard to see in the pics but there are a few exceptional pieces in the lot.
Now I have to make a few knives, again, to use them up and make him proud.
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His son asked me if I could guess how many knives are in the house. I guessed at 300+. He said, no, more than 400. Most are fixed blade hunters.
I have no idea how they plan on disposing of them but I sure do not want the job.

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I am going to try this on the buffing wheels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

I am certain he and his family have chosen wisely here.
You might never use it up, yet I think you will see it all used.

Lifetime of stuff.

Sorry your mentor isn't doing well. It is difficult seeing someone lose their memories like that.

That was thoughtful of his family to gift you those tools and materials though. I would certainly prefer my stuff going to someone I knew and trusted, that would make good use of it.

Damn boy! That's sad about Your friend. "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life."
I'm glad his son thought of you. Hope it will all bring you fond memories of your friendship. I'm sure you put it all to good use on his behalf.

Great haul, but more importantly, where it came from. Every time you use those tools it will remind you of him.

I use the rake, with a large wood handle for 2 hands. (use both). After I rake, I rub on the sharp wood corners on the opposite end on the wheel to further remove the black swarf. I clean the black swarf from the wood, with a spray of WD40 and paper towel, it removes all the swarf from the rake.

It does a pretty good job of cleaning the wheels, not as good as the result in the video. I then trim the wheel of long threads with the buffer off. I buy cheap kitchen shears from the dollar store, they can be re-sharpened with a fine diamond file a few times then replaced as they are inexpensive.

If I don’t cut off long threads, they slap a finished and prevent a high polish finish.

Additionally, for a bright final finish, wipe the razor with a paper towel sprayed with WD40, then do your final polish for a bit brighter polish. Too much oil muddies the finish, but a very thin coat seems to brighten it a bit, it melts the wax polishing compound.

I will have to give that sanding belt a try,Thanks.

Being proud of whatcha got, and from where isn’t gloating, it’s being proud and sharing the love.
Nice assortment of wonders buddy.
Enjoy those foredoms. Those are worth the days efforts alone. Such awesome tools.

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I spent the afternoon testing the files. I took a piece of pipe , removed the paint, and used each file on it to see if it would cut the pipe for the full length of the file and on all sides. Some of the files had so much swarf embedded in them that they were just junk. On a lot of them I first used a file brush and removed the rust. Then I tried them on the pipe. I reviewed a number of videos last nite on restoring files. The 2 best techniques were soaking in white vinegar for 5-7 days or the best was electrolysis. Due to the number of files I have I will be using the white vinegar method. About 45 files are no good so that leaves me with approx 100+ that will be just fine plus about 50 that are brand new or next to new.

A 11 yr old neighbor kid came over and asked me what I was doing. So I showed him and he promptly started trying to test the files! I thought he was going to break them in half! I ended up giving him 6 files to take home with him. He thought they were just cool.
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Thanks Doc.

A lot of useful and necessary things.