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  1. UncleBillyKnives

    Small Caper of CPM-D2

    Here is a small caper I did for my cousin. cpm-d2 with brown canvas micarta. I don't like the sheath so I have a neww on in process. Sent from my 2PQ93 using Tapatalk
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    A couple of Loveless style drop point hunters

    I have not had much opportunity to post the last few years, but here are a couple I finished this weekend. CPM-D2 steel with SS hardware. One has stabilized snakeskin sycamore and the other Amboyna burl. Big thanks to Bob Parker for his guidance and support! Sent from my 2PQ93 using Tapatalk
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    Re-Introduction

    It has been a long last couple years. I lost my wife of 23 years in May of last year. While she was sick, knife making was my therapy. Since her pasting I have been so busy doing everything for my family, knife making fell to the side. No time and to be honest, I've had no motivation to do it...
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    Another portaband mod

    I picked up a new portable bandsaw and build a stand from scraps that work. I have a few blades to cut out and practice on tonight.
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    Visit to Robert N Parkers shop

    Today i had the oppertunity to spend a few hours with Mr. Parker in his shop. What a super guy! He showed me how he grinds a chute knife then we did a double ground fighter together, with him doing one side and me the other. We did a lot of talking and he gave me great advice on how to improve...
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    Excited and scared

    Well, there is this online auction site that i have been watching the last year or so called REPOCAST.com, and they were these two anvils.:drool: One is a vulcan, one I am not sure. I have never done this before, sight unseen. Both have nice looking faces but I am not sure how big they are. I...
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    Prayer Request

    Hey Dogs, as you know from past prayer requests, my wife Darcey is fighting a rare brain disease. as she has degraded over the last year, she has lost her ability to cough. that is a bad thing and what we have feared has happened. She has Pneumonia and has been in the hospital for a week. they...
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    New light box photos

    I bought a protable light box with the lights off the web to try to improve my knife photos. So far, the results are a lot better then before. Here is the second round of photos taken. Photos were taken free hand, with only the lights for the box, no flash. I have not tried any photo editing...
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    Inlay Question

    I have made a knife for my sister and I want to add a snapping turtle skin inlay in the sheath. The skin has been dried for a few years now. My question is, to show the contrast of the between the yellowish skin and the sheath, i want to dye the leather brown or black. I dip my sheaths for...
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    Moisture Meters- does anyone use them

    I have a bunch of wood that has been sitting in my basement for the last few months and want to send it out to be stabilized. With my kids allergy's, I either have the air on or the heat, so it is always dry down there. In the past I have never checked the moisture content to verify that is...
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    Ready for heat treat - almost

    I still have to clean up the notches but I hope to have these in the mail tomorrow to Peters heat treat. The top knife was a pratice grind out to 1095 that will clean up and Ht myself. i think i will put a false edge on top of one or both but I prefer to do that after HT.
  12. UncleBillyKnives

    Small A2 Hunter with Flamed English Sycamore

    Here is one I finished today. It is a gift for my Uncle that got me started making knives. Overall length - 6" Blade length - 2 3/4" Steel - A2 Handle - Flamed English Sycamore(from Burl Source) with brass dovetail bolsters and mosaic pins. Sheath - hand sewn, tooled butterfly pouch style...
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    Android KnifeDogs app

    the photos dont want to come up if they are attachments when using my phone. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it but no good. just with the app. if i use the browser the photos work. thanks.
  14. UncleBillyKnives

    Tooling Sheathes- i have questions and need feedback

    This are some of the first sheathes I have tooled. the one to the far right is one i did not finish due the the pattern moves in from the fold so it looks like it is not centered. After this one, I moved in to about 1/8" from the center line before the fold. It still comes in from the fold, but...
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    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

    I hope you all have to much to eat today:drool: and enjoy spending time with you families. If you deer hunt, enjoy the quiet of the woods!
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    Convex grinding tutorials

    I am starting a new project for a guy I work with. He wants 3 skinning kinves with a convex grind on the blade similar what is on a marbles knife, scary sharp. one is for him and the other tow are for his young sons when the get older. is there any tutorials/Videos on convex grinding out there...
  17. UncleBillyKnives

    Finished Today

    Here are three I finished today. All are 1/8" A-2. the drop point is for a guy i work with and has nickel silver hardware and stabilized black palm handle. The two smaller ones are based of Billy Hendon's EDC. (a great little knife i carry daily) The wood handle one is modified with a sharper...
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    Prayer request

    My wife is back in the hospital. They did surgery yesterday on her hip because it was not healing from the surgery 5 months ago. This time the infection was it the bone & they had to remove some of it. When I got to the hospital this morning she is pretty weak and developed a fever. Please say a...
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    Good find!

    I wanted a granite slab so I do some tooling on my sheathed but $40 is a lot to pay. A stone & tile supplier was having a tent sale, so I stopped in and had a look around. I found a 12 x 16 - 1 1/4" thick peice for $20. I think I got a good deal.
  20. UncleBillyKnives

    Just finished - O-1 & A2

    Here are two I just finished. A2 and camo G10 from Midwest Knifemaker Supply. The O-1 has G11 from the MOTH giveaway. I just have to make the sheath and sharpen. All comments welcome. Thank-you for looking.
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