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How about a plaque with a carved knife shape? I have a CNC router that I use in my sign business. I can convert a drawing and cut the shape along with any text desired. You can see samples of my carved signs at our web site. ernie balch www.balchsigns.com

Thanks for looking, you can find more examples of my work at balchknives.squarespace.com

This is 1084 and 15N20 with a twist pattern, Ti liners and micarta scales. This is my 6th folder and I am starting to get a little faster making them. After taking the photos I etched and polished the blade so the the pattern stands out a lot better. Next I have to sharpen it, (guess how I...

I always use bronze thrust washers with a bronze bushing and a SS pivot.

Just follow the Ray Rogers Liner lock tutorial for an easy method to make folders. http://www.rayrogers.com/ftutorial.htm ernie balch

The sample prep is standard analytical lab work but the difficult thing is interpreting the photos. You can throw a lot of money at getting samples prepared and not understand what it all means. As for people spouting nonsense, You are 100% right! Last summer I went to the ABS meet in...

Count me in. I'll make a folder. ernie

Bob, you should look into GE for support. this is where to start. http://challenge.ecomagination.com/ct/g.bix?c=ideas GE has $100 million to support eco ideas. ernie

40 degrees and raining here in the formerly frozen north. Where is winter? I have a tractor and snowthrower ready and waiting and I bought new snowtires that ought to be enough to suppress the snow for another year. ernie

We have a similar problem in the sign business. Sometimes people get carried away and order expensive signs then never pick them up. As you can imagine it is impossible to sell a custom carved sign to someone else. The solution for us was to get 50% down payment with the rest on completion...

The furnace filter approach will take out the visible dust making the shop air look much cleaner and is great idea. but most of dust is much smaller than 5 microns and will go right through the filter. The body has a problem getting rid of dust smaller than 2.5 microns. This topic has been...

That is a great design. ernie

Here is an interesting pin I picked up at the store. Imagine getting your logo made like this and inlaying it into a knife handle. ernie

Michael, Thanks for the nice words. The knives you are selling ARE SHARP! I always check the sharpness with a finger tip when ever I look at a knife. On the way home I kept catching the skin on my finger tips on the car steering wheel. I finally realized that I had small cuts that made...

You are not too far for a drive on a rainy fall day. We might take a drive to see the fall colors and just happen to wind up at your store. ;) ernie

I understand the dangers, after a near miss resulting in just a minor cut from a saw blade I looked for something better. I bought a Festool plunge style circular saw with slide track guide for our sign business. Now the shopsmith table saw and the radial arm saw don't get used at all. We...

For bee and wasp stings just take an aspirin mash it up with a couple drops of water and smear it on the sting site. It instantly kills the pain. I don't know if it works for fire ants or scorpions we don't have them up here in the frozen north. ernie balchknives.squarespace.com

sounds like a good place for tree huggers to learn about nature.

That looks like the firewood I used last winter. I burned a huge truck load of it.

How do you cut the stainless and make the inlay? The fitting must be very difficult unless you are using CNC tools.