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Yeah on the grind! I sure like your hamon line, too.

Wow! Nice!

That looks like a great time, Mike! Everyone should visit Alaska at least once in their lifetime. I lived there and sure miss it. Fishing was pretty good, huh?

Hee hee, that sounds cheap enough! How ya feeling, George? You going to be able to wait until your hospital date? I hope to get out next weekend and cut some more Osage orange and get it dried. I still have those big chunks of oak burl to work up, slab, and dry. I had a bunch of Osage...

I really like that knife. I hope you post pics when you get it finished.

Will he work cheap? Work for meals? Can he live off the land and fried squirrel?

So sorry to hear about his stroke and thanks for letting us know, Heather. Please tell him we are all pulling for him and hope for a quick recovery.

I had to have a cast put on my arm for the same thing. The cast did the job, elbow if fine now.

I have found that if you use cold blues, heat the piece up until it's pretty warm to the touch. The acid in the blue works much better on a warm item. Also use a clean cotton swab and make even strokes lengthwise on the item being blued.

Well, I sure hope all you rascals survived the weekend and IG's hot peppers. I had only one day off last week, last Sunday. I'm getting too dang old for all this overtime at work. My shop has been closed up for the whole week, been too tired to get anything else done except the dang day...

Is that a boiled linseed oil? I've used boiled linseed oil with decent results. I now use only stabilized wood, taking all the guesswork and chance results with finishes on wood.

Thanks for the kind words, Larry! Micah receives 3 hours of therapy and is doing pretty good. That's great Linda is doing well. It is really great she gets her therapy at home instead of having the painful trip for her therapy. I think she will recover faster at home. She should be back to...

It's sure great that Linda got through her surgery and is doing fine! We all here are all hoping for her to get well soon! My 2 year old grandson, Micah Andrews, was in a serious car wreck a few weeks ago in Phoenix, AZ, and recently came out of his coma after surgeries. He's doing great and...

WSSI has always done me great service. I also buy stabilized burl from Gene Martin and am more than happy doing business with him. I don't know for sure, but he may stabilize the wood himself. As many of you probably know, Gene is a fine knife maker, too.

Phil Willson, a great maker and knife writer, started using CPM steel years ago and we can thank him for our current usage of the CPM steels. One time when we were talking, he told me about his first times using CPM420V. The only way he could purchase the steel was by buying big thick slabs...

Your fine work and customers speak well for you, Frank. Congratulations are in order, for sure. As an appreciation to a repeat customer of mine, I'm sending him a CPM420V guthook knife, free of charge. He has sure earned it, considering all the business he has given me and the referrals that...

You make it through the weekend OK, IG? Smart idea, cooling from the inside out. ;)yea! Dang hot weather you are getting is what we had. We had a slight break but it's coming back real quick. Y'all stay cool and safe, everyone! FREE BEER AT IG'S !

I bet your pepper plants give off smoke, IG. ;)

I have a solution for flat antler scales that works great for me. I hot glue the handle piece of antler onto a square piece of wood and rip the antler on my tablesaw. Using a few SPOTS of glue, the antler is easily twisted off the pilot wood. You just need enough glue to safely hold the antler...

I'm gonna work in the shop and also sight in a .22 rifle that I mounted a scope on, a new rifle one of my work pals bought. Daughter and I plan on going to the range and doing some shooting today. I still have some oak burl to work up and some redbud a pal gave me, along with some mystery...