What are you working on?

[MongoForge]

What are you all working on?

Just got back out in the shop
yesterday..
Trying to work on my knives from this summer...

Mongo-

[Raymond Richard]

I are working on my first million, also got some hawks in the mix. Something I haven't done in a few months, so far I'm really pleased with what I got. I went with a different shaped drift on these two and I'm hoping it to be a plus and not wishing I hadn't......

[jdlange]

I'm working on making knives.........................................heh e

Seriously I am finishing up the sheath for the coffin handle I posted and have about 20 blades with no handles that are just sitting waiting to be finished. I try whenever I can to run the forge on my days off, that way I get a backlog of blades that I can finish up at night after work. I am also working on another GS club, a couple of belt knives, another bowie, 10 kitchen knives (paring, butcher, carving), have 3 cable damascus blades to handle and 4 more utility knives to polish up. I have two hawk heads that have been sittin so long they have rust on them, I have at leats 10 tools in progress and they never seem to get finished.............................geez I guess I should stop screwing around on the computer and get back to work......................somebody smack me!

[MongoForge]

I had to go take a nap after reading
your post Jd.
Busy Bladesmith :cool:

[Sweany]

deburring 34,000 plastic washers.

[Terry_Dodson]

finishing up these:
1084 steel, 12 inches overall, 7 inch blade, furnace cement coated, quenched in veggie oil, tempered 3 times for 2 hours each at 400 degrees, teak handle with Tee Nuts and bolts with epoxy.
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ter...dson/my_photos


piece of Nicholson file, clay coated, quenched in veggie oil, tempered at 400 degrees 3 times for 2 hours, hand sanded to about 1000 grit if i remeber right, black walnut and curly maple handle, sheath i got at the flea market.
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ter...dson/my_photos

[jph]

Hummmm..Let's see. RPFS starts in less than 40 days sooooooo what AM I working on??

Ok.. 3 PW "Viking" swords/daggers, another 12 or so PW daggers and knives, the same amount of welded cable.

20 more HC boot knives/sgain dubhs...another 12 to 18 HC daggers with wire and blued steel mounts...

Approx 8 to 10 rapiers, 12 or so left handed daggers.. and another 4 or 5 bastardswords...a few broadswords and that's about it for opening day. Hopefully this will last longer than the first two weekends..

Sigh...

JPH

[McAhron]

geese and im only working on one knife now(you all make me feel lazy)

[MaxTheKnife]

I'm working on a camp trailer I just bought. It's an oldie but a goodie. I picked it up yesterday morning and have worked on it ever since. My Dad's coming in a few weeks with his sawmill and I really needed a place for him to stay while he was here. The weather has been too dang windy for forging lately anyway and first things first. I need to move my smithy down to the barn and I probably won't hit a lick at hot steel till I get that done. The wind won't be a concern after I move down there. It'll just be a longer walk to my scrap steel pile. Unless I get spunky and move that too. That's what I'm up to.

[Fox Creek]

I am tempering 4 Sgians as we speak. want to get a couple of camp knives done after these, and then another dirk. The problem with the dirks is that they take so darn long to make, I feel like I get woefully out of practice forging. I grabbed an old metal baking pan out of the shop to put the blades in to temper in the kitchen oven, carefully washed the blades offw tih hot water, dertergent and a scrub brush to get the oil off. The pan I picked up turned out to have wax in the bottom of it. Whew! Honey, what in the *&^$@#@!*& is that gawdawfulsmell? Hey, there's smoke in here!

[Raymond Richard]

Richard, I'm so glad my ht oven is in the shop, I used to suggest useing the kitchen oven when the wife isn't home.....

[Jeff Higgins]

I'm still working on this bloody door. I have a huge batch of titanium on order, and soon as that's in I'll be back to making some folders.



by the way, this is my garage, not my knife shop.

[MongoForge]

Sure

[ragnik]

I just finished this up.

http://www.ckdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20783


Now its on to some woodworking, wife wants a headboard and a footboard for our bed. After that I have to dream up my next project most likely finally building a forge so I can start banging steel.

Ross

[Stormcrow]

I just got finished with what will be the first knife I offer for sale. It's a nice little knife, forged from a pickup leafspring and differentially heat treated. I guess the style might be along the lines of Mediterranean dirk, with a finger notch.

The handle on it was made by a local gunsmith, Bill Bruns, who buys junkstore bucher knives and re-handles them. He did a nice job. Brass bolster, thin leather spacer, and an antler crown handle. It's not that I can't make my own handles; it's that it seems to take me months to do them for whatever reason. I'm working on fixing that.

I'll get pictures up as soon as I'm able, and it will be for sale here and on Primal Fires.

It's simple, without anything exotic, but I think it's a very elegant little working knife.