Stew's Works in Progress!

[KenThis]

The redwood burl looks a really lovely piece of wood, but I don't think you could go wrong with any of them.

 

[Janne]

Bronze, thin blue- yellow- green- red fiber, reindeer, blue-yellow-green-red fiber, btonze.

The colours symbolise the Sapmi nation.

 

[Stew]

The redwood burl looks a really lovely piece of wood, but I don't think you could go wrong with any of them.

Redwood it's going to be. I've never had it before where so many people have gone for one suggestion (across other groups and media). Everyone has said Redwood except only one other person that said the Alder.

I'll be going for a simple stainless plate bolster to really make the wood the event.

 

[Stew]

Sun, SUP and pup!

 

[snappingturtle]

Chunk of antler ferrule then redwood burl, which frankly is beautiful!

 

[Stew]

I love the smell of Trefolex in the evening.....

 

[Stew]

Glued up the Cold Steel SRK

 

[ejtrent]

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out Stew

 

[Stew]

Yes, must admit that I am too!

 

[Stew]

So I've had this knife done and finished for quite some time, waiting for a sheath.
The handle is black and green layered G10 and although it's comfy, I've never felt it looked quite right.
I felt that the layering was wasted in the way that I had shaped it and have had it in my mind to date to try a randomly faceted handle.
I have never tried it before as I struggle with the idea of randomly shaping but still keeping it comfy and looking good - I just thought it would be too tricky to get right.
I finally plucked up the courage to give it a go as I figured that I had nothing to lose.
Those first few cuts in with the grinder are quite unnerving but I soon got into it and think for a first go that it's not too bad - still comfy too!!

 

[Janne]

Looks great!
Did the 'surfacing' improve the grip much?

 

[Stew]

A little bit of fun. I love a bit of stop motion animation. It's a long job for such a short end result (there's approx 280 photos in this very short sequence) but the kids enjoyed making it with me. Much respect to the folk who actually do decent attempts at this sort of thing!
The knife is a folding kiridashi that I made for a swap-build that I organised on @edgematters forum. It'll be on it's way to @pezza_knives very soon!

 

[Stew]

Convex is king! 5.5mm spine down to a sharp edge - still more shiney shiney needed but it's on the way!!

 

[Bionic]

Crikey, that looks like it’s going to be an absolute beauty when it’s finished. I hope I can reach that sort of standard eventually (doubt it though ). Again that is a cracking piece of work, top job

 

[Stew]

Crikey, that looks like it’s going to be an absolute beauty when it’s finished. I hope I can reach that sort of standard eventually (doubt it though ). Again that is a cracking piece of work, top job

Thanks! It's mostly just time and abrasion - we can all do it!

 

[Billy-o]

It's mostly just time and abrasion

Well, there's an epigram for life, and one for the sig line

 

[Stew]

Thought that the little man was ready to start his first knife so doodling yesterday then rain today meant the wooden template could be made.

The rascal decided she wanted to make something in the cave too but didn't want a knife (yet!) so an Ash wand was born!

 

[Stew]

Summer holiday over.....back to the grind!

 

[Stew]

"What did you get up to last night?" "Just cutting a slot in a walrus penis bone. You?"

 

[Stew]

Away for a couple of weeks camping this summer and didn't have a book to take to read in the mornings. I decided to take a very roughly axed out bit of cherry to sit and whittle each morning.

I had no definite plan at the start so it was a lot bigger than it needed to be before the knife work (I didn't take an axe with me) but it was very satisfying to slowly discover it hidden in the wood.

It's now in the camping box for future trips!