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Made this little guy. Its one of my tuna bleeder blades, but I did a stubby full tang handle on it instead of a hidden tang. Its a chisel ground nitro V blade designed for bleeding tuna out by piercing the lateral blood line just under the pectoral fin. Males a cute little utility blade too...

I am going to try that out! I use my electro etcher to etch jimping into the spine, never thought to use a towel for blade texture!

I gotta try that towel trick now for etching!

When I used to make fishing rods, we would use an alcohol burner or a heat gun to heat up the epoxy and it got water thin and very runny and drippy, but it let all the bubbles out. The alcohol burner work well with the epoxy in a thin metal tray, the heat gun would often blow dust into the...

Too much acetone can effect the curing, so use as little as you need to. Or use a heat gun to get it more runny. Wrap the handle, put the epoxy onto the wrap and then heat gun it on low and it should thin out and soak in. Or soak the paracord in epoxy, heat the epoxy and then wrap, bit it...

Acetone I believe thins epoxy? You can also warm it slightly as well, but it will set up faster the warmer it is. Try marine guard 8000, its pretty thin when mixed.

I was shown this paracord wrap. You remove the white inner cords and as you wrap it, give it a twist on each side. Maybe do a flat wrap of paracord under, then do another layer with different paracord with the guts removed with the twist as the overwrap? A little of the tang shows through...

Or your second, or third if you don't learn the first few times! I try to make sure I drill holes so if it does helicopter, I get hit with the spine and not the edge. I also know to go slower and when I hear the metal sound change pitch when it's close to breaking through, I am really careful...

Had the last 2 weeks off from work, so I got lots of stuff done! 80CRV2 7" camp knife: 4" Magnacut with Black/OD Green G10 burl Red AmeraGrip on a 4" Magnacut drop point: 2.75" edge S90V warncliff: 3.25" CruWear with Orange AmeraGrip handles: Nitro V Drop Blood Knives. Double edge...

No way! Ground to about .04" thick at the edge before HT. Spent another 3 hours or so post HT grinding. I took them up to a 16 micron belt and 1000 SIC belts, but didnt spend as much time at each belt, so they arent as shiny as the 5" ones I did. The blades are pretty flexy, more so than the...

Sharpened these up today, hoping to ship tomorrow! 3/32" thick S90V, blades are 18" x 2.5" wide, just over 23" OAL. 240mm Tanaka R2 damascus gyuto next to them for a size comparison.

Do you have any welding skills or know someone who can weld? Housemade.us has various kits/packages to build your own grinder and they get rave reviews.

Do you have any knifemakers local to you that you can visit and try out their setups? You may find some features others insist on don't mean much to you. I run an Ameribrade. That uses 2" tool arm bars, but I don't have all that many accessories. I have their combo platen with 2 and 6"...

Duh, thanks Ken! Never even thought of that...LOL. I want to weld some angle iron legs on and get rid of the wood legs too.

I was early at around 17/18 years old when I started in 1998! I think I have that first one at my parents house somewhere. I did a few kits before that, but a machinist friend gave me a piece of O-1, 1/4" thick and around 2" wide. I used a Drill press, hacksaw and files to profile it, and...

I made my own table for mine, but it's a pain to undo the table to swap blades because the saw is held to the table by the screws. The HF version looks like it supports the saw itself, so the table will be easier to take on and off. It looks like it will work well to cut tube and angle as well...

Welcome!! I recognized the name from back when I got into knives in the late 1990's/early 2000's!

Oops, forgot to post a couple again! 4" Magnacut drop point with orange AmeraGrip handle scales with thick, vintage natural micarta liners. Customer has big hands, so I made the handle a bit chonkier for his hands! I did a different method for the jimping on this one. I used a side...

That looks pretty nice with the table! I may try to get one for my birthday.

I've seen excellent production knives at a good price and horrible, expensive custom/hand forged knives that were garbage. Hand Forged/Custom made does not always equal quality and now, there are many knives "hand forged" that are mass produced turds and resold online by tons of people who...