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Another nice day so I figured I would get something done. Kiritsuke, 6.75”, W2. The piece of black palm will be the handle, with a copper bolster and domed copper pin.

60 grit, then hand sand. I use a fresh one for bevels, then retire them and use them for profiling. I toss them after a couple uses.

Hell yeah! Glad to hear it all worked out, having to scrap something like that is enough to make ya cry.

Might want to give it a shot anyway. “Real” 50 HRC should file pretty easily. If not I’d say you are just getting a bad read

Not my favorite either. I have to be in the right mindset to tolerate it for hours without going insane.

Hand sanding today, fun fun…..all day last Friday and part of today. Finally got this up to 180 and everything where I want it. Well, on this side anyway. The other side is still at 60 grit and has some ripples in it to address, but I’m getting there.

What does a file do?

I like those scales! What are they? (Some kind of antler I presume)

It was some pretty stuff. My picture taking skills don’t show it off very good, but I sure liked it!

Happy birthday Dennis!

Stitched up a sheath this morning. Soaked it for a bit and molded it, now it’s just gotta dry and it’s pretty much done.

Got about as far as I care to go on this hunter today. I’ll wrap it in rubber bands and let the epoxy finish curing and cut and dome the pins tomorrow. It’s 5:00 somewhere though, so I’m calling it a day.

Hey, I used a piece of that same G-Carta earlier this summer! It’s pretty stuff!

Normally I would have to do it before too, but I’m not going to quench the tang and I’m confident it won’t harden. I don’t want to do them before because I may end up not liking that location after post HT cleanup size changes

I’ve never owned one of my “good” knives. They have all been ones that fell into the “to good to scrap, not good enough to sell” category. Today I decided I would make myself a “good” knife. Little edc in W2. It’s .300” thick, but “actually” a 1/16” thick lightly convexed blade with a hollow...

Top and bottom radiused just a bit so it wasn’t sharp. More of a chamfer than anything

I been running one for about a year. Really nice. Belt seems to run smoother on it too. You’ll like it. Got mine from the Boss

I sort of wish it would work too. About an hour into sanding……lol

Congratulations! I barely figured out how to program mine well enough to work. Looks like you got it figured out!

I have a 36” radius platen. The reason I’m doing it this way is I want that super thick spine by the handle so it’s comfortable on the finger. I can’t do that with a radius platen without making the knife excessively heavy. That’s a purdy grind you have there!