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It's so cold in my shop the dye chem was freezing to the liner instead of drying. I'm from west Texas, this panhandle cold stuff is throwing me for a loop lol.

Ah I dang near forgot what the inside of the knife shop looked like. Since Thanksgiving I've spent hours and hours guiding hunts (I work on a hunting ranch). Not much done, but I do have the pearl fit to the bolsters. Now I'm getting ready to knock the bolsters down to the right thickness...

Count me in thanks for the chance

I've only done a couple of knife only shows so take this with a grain of salt. I tried to greet everyone that made eye contact. Just a friendly hello or how are ya. I don't do dress up, but I did dress nicely. I don't own a pair of kahkis, I dress in starched jeans and a nice collard button...

I've been contemplating how to go about doing this. Thanks a million for posting this Tracy.

Nothing to update, put way way way too many hours in at work this week. I got a few hours saturday off and spent it watching a college football with my wife and hanging out with my little boy. Hope ya'll had a great Thanksgiving and if ya'll have any pictures to show of slip joints feel free to...

2thumbs I like it alot. That elk looks good on the knife. I like the new logo too!

Dang Josh, you have turned out some awesome work with just the few knives you've done. Thanks for posting the pictures. Stories like your soldering story are why i bought the spot welder, I couldn't pull it off lol. Burch you have an idea of why it snapped? Too much preload, bad heat treat...

Pictures or ban1 :p

We may very well work in the same shop:D Guys glad to hear this is helping someone. Be carefull though Burchtree my way might set you further behind:o I do it a little backwards sometimes.

I am still working on the pearl shaping, but this is the process I'm using. I used 220 grit to get it to where there where no dips and jags from files or the jewelers saw. Up until this point I had not flat sanded the pearl. My main concern until this point was getting the piece roughed...

sweet. You happen to know the name of the game ranch?

Ok I got kinda wrapped up in the knife and didn't have much time tonight anyway so I didn't take as many pictures as I should have. First off I put the knife together (no pearl attatched yet still getting all that fit) to check my back spring in all three positions. I haven't messed with it yet...

I used the 220 volt spot welder from Harbor Freight. I waited until they were on sale. It had to sharp poin copper leads, but I reshaped them to more of a dome so that the dimples wouldn't be as big and deep when I did spot weld. I'll be working on these two tonight some when I get home.

What and no pictures of the rise and fall indicator ban1:D Well I got some more fuses yesterday afternoon. I've etched the relief on both of the black lip knives and started on the others that I've been working on. I may have a couple of these done for the show to recoup the cost of that...

I don't think I ever did put that in the tutorial. I use a lansky brand sharpener to put my edges on the knives. Glad ya'll liked it. Thanks Ryan

Yes sir, are going to be in your same spot?

I can't believe that's your 5th knife. Great package

Looks like it's going to be this weekend before I get the right fuses for the etcher. In the mean time I decided to try some washers on the other slip joints and possibly have them ready for the Wannenmacher show. By the way the washers were from Seastroms.

Hey stanger glad to have you over here. Noticed you didn'tget to come to the oklahoma show this year in Tulsa.