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That wood is fantastic!

Built your press, and bought a griddle. Best damn advice I've gotten for kydex. I'd stopped doing them because of my press sucking, and my wife hating the smell in her oven. Thanks BD.

Plain sawing and quarter sawing are two methods used to harvest planks from logs. Plain sawing is the most efficient, but the grain doesn't look as good, and the wood is not as stable. Quartersawing wastes some wood, but the resultant board is more stable, and more beautiful (opinion, of...

Another thought came to mind. IMHO, its not proper to plain saw your wood. Most hardwoods have visible rays that are only uncovered, and made visable when you quarter saw it. Osage Orange, for example can look like plywood (plain sawn) or it can really look spectacular. Always quarter saw...

This pic shows some knives after the filing. The filing is the critical step in my process, and files are maybe my favorite tools. Then I start sanding. I start with 60 grit, move to 80, clean up the spine and tang metal with a 220 belt, and finally finish grits give me this: Thats...

OK. To continue. We have the woods face jointed, and the liners glued on. Now I trim all the excess off so that the scales are a basic match for one another. Then I tape them together, and tape the knife blade to them. This allows me to drill the pin and lanyard holes through both scales at...

On another forum I was asked me to run down how I make my handles. So here it is. First I choose two woods that I think would contrast nicely together. Then I go to my tablesaw. I rip the liner wood ~1/8" thick, and the outter wood 1/4" thick for a 3/8" thick scale. Usually my...

Thats cool. I've spoken to Mike on the phone a bunch of times. I'd like to meet him someday.

I miss hunting. I get to hunt some deer and squirrel once a year at my Mom and Dad's though. Two daughters doesn't help...

Nice work!

God bless our dead, and our troops.

I was an exibitor at the Las Vegas Gathering for the USN guys last weekend, and a guy walked up to me, introduced himself, and said he saw my work on KD! Thats fast work guys! 2thumbs2thumbs2thumbs2thumbs:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Here is mine. Its 5160, 1/4" thick, 15.75" long, 3" wide.

Hey Bruce. I can't wait to see what kinda stuff you put up in this forum!2thumbs