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Here's a follow up on my post above on using CA glue in a finish. This is from Stacy's post on another forum. The best method of doing raw bog oak is a superglue finish. Bruce Bump developed one that has been the Gold Standard of superglue finishes. Get a bottle of thin CA. Get a bottle of...

Especially for a somewhat porous wood I'll use thin CA glue and wed sand with it to allow the sanding crud to fill the pores. After drying again sand CA to remove all except that inside the pores. The pores sorta become invisible. Then follow up with Tru-Oil or depending on wood, sand to 1200...

Welcome aboard - looking forward to seeing some of your new blades

Mike, those Darex sharpeners are amazing looking. Nice price, but bet they are more precise then the Drill Docs.

I like the Christmas tree!

I think that's a great way to introduce folks to knifemaking. I've invited several folks over, but only had 1 or 2 to actually make a knife. Like you most of my knives are given away to friends 'n family. I usually only sell 3 to 6 knives per year - just enough to sorta cover the cost of...

Opaul, your leather work is always outstanding - and you did it again. I can look and see what 'n how you did it, but my stuff just doesn't turn out as nice. I expect I need more practice? {g}

Seems like I read someplace a guy got $1/inch to sharpen. By the inch seems a fair way to do it - a 4" paring knife will take much less time than a 10" chef/fillet knife

Congrats on hear those "It's not cancer." magic words. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family Mike. AND to everybody else.

That walnut really looks good - hard to beat good looking Walnut Burl. On the Rosewood if you wetsand with CA glue with 400 grit the sanding sludge tends to fill the pores for a nice finish. Then sand with 400 grit to the bare wood removing all trace of CA glue except for the filled pores...

Hey, laugh if you want but before retirement I once found myself in the bathroom at work, looked around and wondered why I'm in here. Then realized I had some papers in my hand I was taking to the copy machine - the trip from my office to copy room took me past the bathroom and for some reason...

Chris, you are treating that psoriasis aren't you? When you have arthritis and psoriasis both, you most likely have psoriatic arthritis that gives you a 3X more likely to die from cardiactic issues. OR, that's what my cardiologist said from his reading. Once he found that, he got me on...

Folks, there are pros 'n cons to getting old... I don't mean just "older", but OLD!! I'm almost 77 these days and while I do fully enjoy my retirement, there are couple things that come up to bite me more often than ever before. Like walking into a room, then can't remember why I'm in the room...

Yep, it sounds like mirrors would help with that :)

Think about how thick the tang is - if it's fairly thick as in a camp knife I don't expect there would be a problem flexing the tang while using the tab.

Jay Fisher isn't selling knives, he's selling "art". Check this pair of chef knives - they're NICE, but $14,000 for the pair? https://www.jayfisher.com/Concordia_Talitha_Deschutes_Jasper.htm

I try to be sure the glue is spread complete to edges, then clamp so the edges are clamped tight so no gaps are left. Even with that a gap is sometimes left. There is an edge kote (Amazon #B004303LMC) that's a thick dye that works pretty good to fill small gaps. It's available in black, and...

I think grinding the bevels would be the only time the mister would be used. I turn it off for everything else when the dust collection system is running. When grinding the bevels I turn the dust collection system off so the mist/water isn't sucked into the system/filter etc.

I see, looks like painted rather than anodized. Can you tell if truly anodized or just painted?

From the photos the cards look pretty good to me