Just a couple of quick shots and some comments on grinding.
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Just a couple of quick shots and some comments on grinding.
I made a few pieces of experimental suminigashi the other day. That’s “watered paper” steel – many layers of stuff, squished until it looks like marbled paper.
This is a foreshadowing. I’m not going to torment you by seeing who can guess what it’s for.
Ah, the “knife-maker’s girlfriend’s knife.” It’s got to be the best that you can make, at that given time and place. [Read more…]
Charly suggested stainless steel hose clamps, as an easy way to keep large chunks of wire rope from fraying while being chop-saw’d.
This is version 2.0 of Jazzlet’s Eye Gouger, now with a much shorter blade for better leverage, and a thicker back for prying out recalcitrant spud-chunks.
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
Perhaps it’s a “chef’s saber.”
One of the great things about ebay and international shipping platforms is that you can get really odd stuff at fairly good prices; it just shows up in your box at the post office.
I get most of my woods and stock from Ebay. Back when I lived in Maryland, there was a craft-woods store but, up here, I live in the middle of miles of the stuff.