MacGyver

That looks great! If you can do the filing work on that knife, rolling your own kydex is a breeze. Sandwich some high density closed cell foam from an old camp mattress between some plywood and you've got a press. Add in a rivet kit or screws from knifekits.com and you're on your way.

I know a couple of guys who have those safes in places where thieves are likely to look first.  They're loaded down with bricks.

Be careful with aluminum stuff in the ultrasonic cleaner.  Depending, they can do a number on them.

I have three rules for Harbor Freight:   If I'm going to use it more than once, then I'll probably be happier paying a little more for something with a guarantee If my safety would be a risk by the tool breaking, then I need to look at something else - this one came into being by watching more than one Harbor Freight impact socket grenade into a million pieces of shrapnel.  Wear your dang safety glasses! (A direct follow on of rule number 2) I do love looking around in there from time to time, but more often than not I leave without buying anything of consequence.  That said, I've bought a bunch of oddball fasteners, e-clips, roll pins, etc... over the years.

The KelTec PMR is probably the most "reliable" of the .22 mag autoloaders.  Whether it's reliable enough to be considered trustworthy is a toss up.   The only other .22 mags I remember other than the AMT were the Grendels.  Neither of those were worth much in terms of reliability.

That's truly cruel.  Who does something like that?

  The blade is 3-3/4" Total length is just under 8". 

I love to get a forge going, but I learned on coal with a squirrel cage.  If I ever do it, I'll have to convert to gas or I'm pretty sure the communists in my homeowners' association will picket in my driveway.

A good belt grinder would have removed material a lot faster, but it would also be a lot easier for someone with little experience to screw it up that way.  Doing by hand wasn't so slow to make me not want to do it again.  I kind of want to do some cleavers it I can come up with a design I like.

I gave this one as a gift, so it's truly one of a kind. One thing is for sure - the process makes you appreciate the work that goes into a true custom and the price associated it.

Yeah, the blade shape turned out well for a simple jig. You'll notice a little low spot in the blade. I'll adjust my filing in the future to correct that.

So for the last few years, I've kind of wanted to get into making some blades, but haven't. Time and lack of tooling really put a damper on my plans. I told myself that I would start when I could find a decent deal on a grinder, but never got around to it. Well fast forward to the holidays last year, and I had a little time on my hands. I decided to give it a go without the expensive tooling and do it by hand. Here are the results of my efforts with nothing but hand tools - hacksaw, a couple of good files, and various sandpapers. This started as a piece of 3/16" O1 tool steel. Cutting it with the hacksaw didn't take nearly the time I thought it was going to. I have a bandsaw, but in the spirit of "handmade", wanted to try it with the hacksaw. I'd say it took about an hour to cut the profile. I then proceeded to clean it up with the files, and let me just say that a good file, kept clean can really remove some metal. I put together a jig to hold the blade, and each side took about an hour and a half to get where I wanted it. Mind you, I likely could have cut this down some, but my kids wanted to help and I went slow to keep from screwing it up. I finished the blade by getting it non-magnetic with a torch and a quench in warm oil. I then heat treated in a small oven a couple of different times. I wish I had taken some pictures of the blade at this point. The scales are some cedar heartwood I recovered. I sharpened it on a standard Lansky set and finished on a strop. I really put it through some torture and it held its edge better than a lot of factory knives I've owned. I'd say my overall time spent was about 8 hours. Here is the finished product: I guess the moral of this story is don't let a lack of power tooling stop you from doing something fun.

Man, I'll keep you in my prayers.

I haven't heard of anyone getting left out.

In the words of the late, great southerner, Lewis Grizzard, "come on down here. Eat our food, breathe our air, marry our women. There's just one thing we ask of you. Don't tell us how you used to do it back in Cleveland. We don't care. Cleveland's so great - Delta's ready when you are. We'll have you back there by 6:00 this evening if that's where you want to be."

I love the Browning takedowns.

When the ninth circuit is ruling in favor of the second amendment, that's probably a good sign to start looking for the seven horsemen of the apocalypse on the horizon.

That's really nice!

A Ruskie double rifle?  That seems like some kind of heresy they don't even have a name for.

Those are generally made good on, or at least offered. Interestingly though, a pretty good number of people end up not accepting a reward for simply doing the right thing.

My vote on the 10/22 goes to wood.  Classic gun deserves a classic stock.  Nothing wrong with polymer, but if I have to choose one, I'm choosing wood.

Love my 300.