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Thanks everyone for the welcome. But let me be clear, I'm NOT trying to make this another career just make/assemble a few knives here and there as another hobby (just what I need).... I'm semi retired (kept my best 3 clients out of 12) from being a consultant for owners of apartment communities...

I can't speak to Ironwood but Dymondwood will dull the heck out of the checkering cutters. I guess it's the resin.... I've checkered all kinds of wood and some are okay (walnut) and others eat the heads.....

I've been lurking for a month or so and finally decided to register yesterday. I'm a knife "assembler" meaning that I don't have the ability, expertise or machinery to actually make a blade so I use blades from major suppliers and I do the rest. I'm looking forward to hanging around and...

Being a beginning "assembler" everything I do seems to be a beta test including etching the makers mark. The first ones I did were as low class as it gets, a 9volt battery, a Qtip and salt water, truly lowest of the low. Then I got the idea of using a transformer from somewhere and I thought it...