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I think you might mean these. I make so many its hard to keep up. The 2 pictured above are just a few weeks old.

That law changed as of July 1st. There is no longer any restrictions on blade length or knife type. Thanks for watching out for me though, thatd be a crappy thing to get a ticket or arrested for lol.

Yeah its funny how just a few small finish changes make a lnife completely different. These 2 are made from the same steel, same blade shape, same tang style. Handle material and finish is the only visible difference and it completely changes the blades.

Guy should have minded his own business but that is the cost of open carrying. Though I will say, generally speaking most people are very non-observant. I was in Oak Ridge Walmart the other day and carrying a medium sized fixed blade (8.5" blade). Quite visible on my hip since my shirt was tucked in. I was actually trying to figure out if the sheath was what I wanted. Anyways, one of ths stock guys sees me walking around, up and down his aisle a few times both ways. Then he ask if I have a knife. I hand him the fixed blade and he looked shocked and asked where it came from...... So most of the time alot of people won't even notice your firearm.

I also finished the patina today. Just about time for it to go get a sheath made up

Send it to me in a pm. Ill leave this one as I want a more traditional look and feel and itll get oiled regularly. This one is has devcon 2 ton epoxy between every washer, and would have to be cut off the handle to be removed lol. Yes. I start out with a file apx 12" long, draw the tang down with a hammer, then hot cut the clip point and draw it with a hammer. Forge in the bevels and on a distal taper I hammer that in as well. Once its about 90%, ill clean up the bevels on my 1x30 harbor freight belt grinder, then heat treat and hand sharpen. Your welcome to come to the forge and watch or make one to take home anytime.

  I have been of the mindset that every knife needs to be better than the last. Not sure its always true, but I'm enjoying learning and sharing what I make with everyone here. Thanks for the compliments guys. This one is my shot at a knife that looks like it may have been drug the jungles of Vietnam, or across Europe or island hopping in WW2. The leather handle with the worn look, and it'll be getting a mustard patina, to make it look battle hardened.

I decided to try a few different things. This knife has three first for me. A stacked leather washer handle, a distal taper, and a bull horn pommel. The blade stills needs finish sanded, and the handle has a few rough spots to work out. So far I love the feel, and that distal taper makes it stupid fast in the hand. 10.5" 1095 distal tapered blade, stakced leather washer handle with mink oil finish, mild steel guard, bull horn pommel. I'm gonna enjoy this one

I must have missed something major. I can take a pretty good guess even though some post have been deleted. Mav, Im sorry your thread turned into this. Im glad to hear its a user and not a safe queen :D

The Marine Corps still uses a loop sling for Known distance shooting. We spend hours learning to loop up and stay in postion, even when it hurts. There is a week of dry fire and postion practice in Boot Camp and then every year before qualifying on the range. Some guys use grip pods, but they aren't allowed when qualifying on the range.

Compared to that most of my knives are sharpened lawn mower blades lol. Thats a gorgeous folder. So next question. Is it a safe queen or a carry piece

They look good. Thats a nice freaking grinder. Ive eyed those up before, maybe someday lol.

Did you forge out the damascus for the blade? And with that are the blades forged or ground out? Very nice work

Sorry for the derail Mav. Thats a gorgeous blade. I love it.

Dude what is up with you lately? Every post I see from you is basically saying that nothing is worth it. In the shotgun thread you were going on and on about how it was pointless, and how there was no need for expensive things. In the thread about eggs you were going on about buying cheap beaters since nice cars are useless. Now you are carrying on about how buying a nice knife is useless since you can make do with a serviceable one you make. Which, btw, won't be very serviceable unless its made from a high carbon steel and heat treated. Otherwise its just a k ife shaped object that will never hold an edge and will bend easily. I'm not picking on you, just saying there is no need to constantly run down people spending money on things they want. Its starting to be like hanging out with Eeyore. To Mav, hurry up and post pics. The suspense is killing us lol.

I don't think he is condoning it, only saying it might happen. You have no idea of the mental state of someone driving by, what stress they are under, etc. Weird things can make people snap. All it takes is the wrong guy, in the wrong mood catching an egg to the face and he very well may draw and fire in a moment of recklessness. It won't be justified, and he will serve time for it, but a kid will still be dead because of a prank.

My temper gets the best of me at times. I can control it most of the time, but last time I got egged was a year or so ago. Same situation, I was going one way, they were headed the opposite way the first two eggs hit the windshield, the third made it through the window and hit me in the chest hard enough to leave a bad bruise. I called the law and flipped a u- turn. When the cops arrived the driver was sitting on the sidewalk crying and begging me not to destroy his car with the 6 lb hammer I had in my hand, the passenger was to drunk to worry about what I was doing. It was an intresting night. I'm not much on "boys will be boys" and innocent pranks. Once you get into the 16 and over range, you might find an ass whopping as the result of that stupid prank. And I was driving my old Dodge Dakota with enough hail damage to look like I pissed off an ex wife. It isnt about how nice or crappy my stuff is. It is my stuff that I paid hard earned money for, and it is my health you're threating by throwing a hard object at a high rate of speed. I would have gotten my ass whipped by my old man for doing something like that. Then again, I grew up working on a farm, and when I had a vehicle to drive, it was because I paid for it. If those kids had to work they would be to tired to get into trouble like that. I know I was, nobody throws hay all day or works out a garden all day, etc then stays out all night causing trouble

This is the one we built at the shop. We actually built several of them, but this was the "shop gun". My thoughts? It was a ton of fun to shoot, an added a very cool factor. That said, it was heavy, the drums are off set which upset weapons balance tremendously, and you gain maybe one or two shells over an extended tube shotgun. The only way I would want one was what is being stated above. A sbs that still has capacity withiut cutting down the gas system. The drums are heavy and somewhat clunky to reload due to there mass. For me, as a fighting shotgun, Ill take a 590 with an extended tube. But they are stupid amounts of fun and have a certain awe factor at the range.

I love old muscle. I have pictures of my dads 70 Chevelle with the LS6 454, 4 speed, and him and his brother swapped in a spool and 4.56 gears into the rear end. I love hearing stories about that old car.

Post pictures of what you have, there are lots of craftsman on this site, maybe somebody can do some custom ones.

Thanks man. I still have most of that small board and all of the big one. The big one is gonna make a nice table or bar someday, the small one keeps getting turned into knife handles slowly.

Let me know how it goes for you. And yeah Im around when I can be, Ive been extremely busy on several fronts. I have been working up a blade with your antler handles though B)

I forge my bevels in then just do it by feel and by eye. There are jig plans online for grinding, my grind lines are more organic and not as neat and perfectly straight as a stock removal knife will be. Part of that is I prefer the more fluid look and part of it is I set my bevels by forging them in with hammer and just refining with the grinder. I use the same 1 x 30 belt grinder, they do well with good belts.

Don't mind at all. If you don't mind Im gonna add the oil part in and cite you for it. I am drawing the knife across for both the sand paper and the stropping. It all comes down to establishing and then refining the bur. Some gys do it against, but the general consensus Ive found on blade forums and a few others is cor a convex to use a draw stroke. Now on a power grinder I always grind against the edge.

  I got them sent over to you. You can go ahead and remove your email. Let me know if you have any questions about the order of them, I think they sent in order.   I just hope it is a help to some people. I know I can sharpen on a good rock, but it takes awhile, and I've never gotten better result by hand than with this cheap little system.