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Hello Shop Talk, I hope you're all doing well today. I have some stabilized mammoth ivory from Raffir that I cut into slabs today (Ugh, the smell! ). When I got into the material, it looked like whatever Raffir uses to stabilize the tusk didn't penetrate all that far. I've purchased pre-cut...

Hello Shop Talk, I hope you're all having an awesome Sunday! I am in the process of fine tuning my Laguna 1412 and was just curious at to what kind of tolerances you guys are achieving on your bandsaws. I think I've got the saw pretty close to good, and I'm wondering if I should just stop...

An electrician buddy of mine knows that I (try to) make knives and gave me some old electrical panel material. I don't expect anyone to necessarily be able to identify it (unless one of you is an electrician, lol), but if I could rule out what it's not, that would be helpful. First the good...

Every couple of months or so, I tag along with my wife while she goes to garage sales and whatnot. The hope is always that I find some nice, old knives, or some good handle material. It doesn't usually work out (except the time I came home with 50lbs of african blackwood, lol), but today was one...