Recent content by Wayne Bensinger

Hey everyone, been a long time since I've posted any work, thanks in advance for looking and let me apologize if I've messed up when I downloaded these pictures, I think I posted without any verbage accidentally. Anyway, the first knife was a mistake. The one with the small whitetail antler...

I certainly don't have near the credentials of Ed, but I'm with him, if it looks good then I'll buy so to speak. In the beginning I was guilty of overthinking things a it always came back to "if it looks good to my eye" go with it like Ed said. Wayne

Awesome, you nailed it. As some of the guys here already know, my favorite knives are Bowies and one of my favorite materials to work with is copper, so that one is right up my alley, great knife. Love the leather too. Wayne

There's a bunch of those type living around everyone of us, shame. Wayne

Very nice knives and wood, you'll be making a lot of knives too use up all that stock! Wayne

Thanks Ed, I thought I'd be ok. I also thought I bought 2100' envelope material, guess not, lol. So is cpm154 the same as 154cm.

Hi all, I had a peculiar situation last evening while hardening a piece of 154cm. I believe I went to high on my temp- instead of going to 1850', I went to 1950'. The biggest problem I had was that the stainless envelope stuck fairly hard to the blade, although I did manage to get it off. Can...

Looks great, once you file a spine you'll be looking for more place to do your art, lol. Wayne

That's a bummer, can't help but think you could turn a negetive into a positive here. Man that knife would look great with a SS bolster or even bolsters made from the same Damascus, and it almost broke in the perfect spot, just a thought though. Wayne

Man, your gonna love that grinder, lol, bet your arms going to thank you.

If I'm not mistaken it is a polyester material. I got it at USA Knifemaker but I'm not sure how popular it is, it looks like there's only a couple of pieces left. Since this knife won't see any heavy action I decided to use it up, but with the easy of cutting and shaping, Im really not sold on...

Yeah, I wasn't sure about using that snow leopard either, it's been in my shop for a while, but I like it. When you use your piece I'm sure that you'll notice that there are air bubbles and small inclusions in the mix. I had one air bubble turn up right near one of the green spacers but was able...

So if I understand this, you have a brass pin or two in each bolster that you peen from the inside and it's the same for the bone. That makes sense as well does the glued spacers. Guess now my next question is how is it put together, I don't see any screws, is it just those two brass pins in the...

Really like that knife, nice job. If you don't mind me asking, how are the spacers held in place as well as the brass bolsters. I can see the the wood has the brass pins, but I'd love to understand how the rest stays together, it's such a clean look. Wayne

Man, that's a lot of filing and a darn good looking finish for files. I'm no expert on cleavers but would tend to think that a secondary bevel on such a tool would be ok because the tool isn't used to slice so to speak, but power its way right through whatever it is your choppping. To me the...