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  1. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    Cheers... In what way, do you mean grip or risk of damage?
  2. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    I never even saw my lips move :lmao: As JD says, just a high polish :)
  3. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    Onwards and upwards, still not finished, it's set to receive it's Deval Bushcrafter engraving next so I don't sharpen until afterwards, the engravers prefer them blunt for some reason :rolleyes: :D
  4. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    save a bit of Sheffield cutlery history

    Evening all, things are moving on with this, we are now well on the way to setting up an Industrial Provident Society (for community benefit) to buy, run and renovate the Works. Effectively a cooperative which combines the advantages of charitable status and a registered company. Shares...
  5. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    British Blades Forum - down

    Nah, not really, I quite enjoy to over react every now and again :D
  6. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    British Blades Forum - down

    Stew? Stew?
  7. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    British Blades Forum - down

    British what???? Blades??? I'll have a look.......
  8. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Sheffield grinders

    Lots and lots of water in Sheffield, that's the reason of course, or at least a major factor, why the industry that grew there did so.... Natural stones were dangerous things, not only the dust but they were literally hung between two flat sided plates, they didn't like the winter time...
  9. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Sheffield grinders

    This is the kind of thing....
  10. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Bushcraft knife philosophy- the camp knife

    Who is the music please?
  11. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    I might stop making your knives Jon :eek: :D
  12. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    That's what I like to see :D
  13. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    OK, so this morning saw #284 in the same state as the 'phone photo I posted yesterday, here's it with a better camera... If a handle is to be 'fishtailed' in shape I always start that shaping at the butt end, here hafted a little further, a bit more shape... Here I have that butt...
  14. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Tamarack Outdoors

    Yeah, they are the ones, if only I knew where to get timber like that.....??????????????????????? :rolleyes:
  15. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Tamarack Outdoors

    Hey up blast from the past bert, it's me, modest Stu :) Back to the knife, I'm pretty sure that Alan just made a nice little limited edition run of knives for Tamarack, to celebrate an anniversary of the set up (10yrs?), likley one or some of those eh?
  16. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    .... :yikes:
  17. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    I'll get better photos tomorrow mate.... By the way, I had a job on getting George away from the 'shop, can't think why....
  18. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    I wasn't expecting to make it into the 'shop today as Mrs M was called to work and as it's a nice day decided to spend the day with my little one, anyway, we went out this morning and heading back I/we called in, no camera but got these terrible shots with my phone, this is how the knife was...
  19. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    New knife being born...

    I am using a good quantity of Giraffe at the minute mate, this gear seems in a different league...
  20. Stuart Mitchell Knives

    Special Heirloom Knife

    :surrender: