Stew's Works in Progress!

[Mesquite]

Nice work Stew, very in keeping with the blade.

Still got to sort out some time when I can pop over to have you show how to handle a knife properly

 

[brancho]

Great thread Stew I enjoyed going through it.
I need to make something I have been a bit obsessed with photography though.


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[Stew]

Gearing up to start a handle for this Wilkinson Sword Dartmoor.
Partial frame tang handle and the cardboard colour is almost right for what it'll be too - coyote brown G10!

 

[Stew]

Great thread Stew I enjoyed going through it.
I need to make something I have been a bit obsessed with photography though.


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Yes you should.

I've started back as a Scout leader - keep thinking of the builds you did with them but not quite brave enough yet!

 

[brancho]

Yes you should.

I've started back as a Scout leader - keep thinking of the builds you did with them but not quite brave enough yet!

Ahh well I am working on something for Explorers again in the new year.

I am also looking at doing something with our Scouts (I am a GSL now) they went to Denmark last year and the Troop they met came over to see us this year. They make small greenwood handled knives as young Scouts so we are working on an indoor camp to have a go for winter.


I was planning on new threads when I get further along.
Dave Budd did knifemaking with Scouts.

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[Stew]

Progress on the Dartmoor handle.

Hand saw the scales out with a modified hacksaw.

Decided to keep the step in the tang to help index the handle so a nice slow bit of filing to fit.
Bit of glue next.

 

[Stew]

Sometimes you just have to let the devil out and go for it:

Had an 'issue' with another project so decided to jump on the bandwagon of the Siberian Chef Knife pattern and cut this out of a woodmill saw blade.

Bigger then it will be but easier to grind more off than dust off the reverse grinder if I wanted it a bit larger.

 

[brancho]

Thats an interesting looking start Stew

 

[Stew]

Hardening these is probably my last bit of knife work for the year.

 

[Stew]

Little man making a proper start on his first knife!

 

[Stew]

I didn't realise my phone was low on storage so no video of the quench but still a picture of a happy chap with a freshly heat treated blade!

 

[Stew]

Not exactly the plan....

 

[Janne]

Fate made you a veg chopper!

Pointy, long blades are overrated.....

 

[snappingturtle]

Not exactly the plan....

Not that you will feel any better but it is better it fails at this stage than later.......well that's how I silver line my problems!

 

[Stew]

Not that you will feel any better but it is better it fails at this stage than later.......well that's how I silver line my problems!

I try to embrace failure and use it to learn. I've had the chance to see the grain structure and also won't make the same mistake of the cause of the failure again.

This will get used as a template to remake it (it's a commission) then I'll regrind it into a smaller version - shorten the handle to match and curve up the edge to reform the tip.

 

[Stew]

Something wicked this way comes....

A de-handle about to happen, ready for a re-handle in something else...

 

[Stew]

 

[Stew]

First piece glued - many more to go!!

 

[greencloud]

Love the spring tension solution. A very elegant solution to an otherwise complex clamp assembly.

 

[Stew]

Love the spring tension solution. A very elegant solution to an otherwise complex clamp assembly.

Thanks. It's one of those moments where you realise that it can be this simple!