Usually I just show tools I have finished.
Heres something different
part way through
I wanted a bench adze. And I have one now that I could just use as is,
and it works great.
But I want more. haahahhaahah and........ I am at a crossroads of
shapes and materials.
Here's my glorious starting point. A bar of tool steel that had been
modified a few times in its life. When I met it, it was a bent flat
prybar in its last life. It was bent and well mushroomed at one end so
it was repeatedly struck for years in service. Its crazy tough steel
whatever it is. It delightfully grinds like hard porcelain, ugh
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/adzebencho.JPG
Then this happened. (Complete with a big fat drop of dried sweat I never
noticed. haaa)
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/adzebench2.JPG
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/adzebench3.JPG
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/adzebench1.JPG
So now what? I've got wood scales galore I could use
(no one piece solid mother of pearl this size, and abalone doesn't grown
this big anywhere in the world, so forget it that.
Have lots of kinds of woods though. Exotics and the choice of domestics.
I just heard about straightening antler! I have a killer piece of elk I
could use, if I can get it straight.
I could do a teardrop handle like a San Francisco hookers bodice dagger?
ebony maybe with little studs all over?
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/knifepix/boot.JPG
I was always a sucker for the tennessee toothpick coffin handle?
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/knifepix/ebowie7.jpg
I made a small tanto pattern handle that really feels good in the hand.
And my own drop point dagger handle feels amazing.
choices choices haahah
yours scott
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Scott Grandstaff
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