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    Help Identifying a Phenolic Material

    I work in construction and two years ago I was working on a lab remodel. Countertops were all old rag Micarta. I tried to convince them they needed new countertops (unsuccessfully)…….I was drooling lol. It was probably 100k worth of handle materials. The knife gods have smiled on you my friend!
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    Stone WIP

    You should buy a cheap tile saw for cutting them up. My dad was a flooring installer, I always used his old tile saw for cutting up agates. I think you can get a water cooled one from Home Cheapo for like a couple hundred bucks.
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    Help Identifying a Phenolic Material

    It looks like some really old brown paper maybe. I cut everything into blocks. I can always make blocks into scales, but not scales into blocks. Looks like an awesome haul! Use to be able to find old Micarta everywhere. I bought mountains of it in 2’ square blocks 2” thick about 30 years ago...
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    Just out of the quench

    I had one of the “Canadian belt knives” similar to that one, and they are really nice users
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    Latest Swords

    That hamon has got a lot going on! Very nice
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    Foil wrapped Stainless & Baby powder

    Talc is a good thing! You CAN purge your whole HT kiln if you want to go that route. I had one on mine that I just made from pipe fittings and drilled a hole into the top of my HT oven. I guess it’s hard on the elements. I don’t do lots of stainless so I took it off and just use pouches again...
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    Question on attaching extension to tang

    I have seen a YouTube video of Bob Dozier doing exactly that! It didn’t look like he was really “adding length” so much as “adding a threaded portion”. I don’t see why it shouldn’t work.
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    New project!! Scagel style folder !

    Wait…… you mean you can Graduate?! Lol
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    Alibaba or Ali-Express

    Those roller mills he makes are pretty sweet too. I seen them in action!
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    Follow along slipjoint project!!

    That’s where I got mine! Free too
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    Jigged bone slip joint

    Even a single blade is tough enough, I’m sure.
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    Jigged bone slip joint

    Gettin fancy! Next up, I suppose a four blade Congress, in feather Damascus?
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    yakut knives

    The blade on Scandinavian ground knives should have flat bevels leading right to a finished edge, with no secondary edge. Some people do like to put a slightly heavier angle on the last bit of the edge. Generally they end up as a slightly convex edge, beveled right to an edge. The entire bevel...
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    Anler scales!

    Wow, that’s an impressive bend you took out! I’ve done that on a couple that were bent maybe 1/2” and winced every time I cranked the vice. That’s awesome!
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    3rd Slip Joint

    I like the color on that blade. Reminds me of color case hardening.
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    Interesting anvil comparison

    Right on. A crappy anvil is still better than no anvil at all. My first was a plate of 1/2” mild steel held onto a stump with bent over nails, and forge was a hole in the ground filled with charcoal blown with a shop vac. I’ve upgraded a little over the years lol
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    FOR SALE: John Doyle Gentlemans Folder in Mosaic Damascus and Ironwood Burl

    Wish I could afford it! That’s pretty badass
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    Interesting anvil comparison

    You definitely want the higher rebound.
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    What's going on in your shop?

    I’m making cookies! Cookies from birch bark, for a knife I’ll make when it gets a little nicer outside. These pucks are about 2” in diameter, I like to have a lot of material to work with because it’s not uncommon for me to screw something up. Im gluing them up into about 3/4” thick spacers.
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    First slip joint

    What are you using to cut the nail nick in your blades?
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