papi a écrit:Hey everyone,
got a big update today, i've been working almost exclusively on one knife, cause my buddy from the machine shop finally brought me the wootz steel i had him EDM cut in half (too thick to waste the half of it), and surface ground. He woke me up with it at around 6 am, and i've been at it until now, excluding the lunch break and a trip to post office. I figured it's time Jos finally got his knife, right ?:)
Now, i have cut the blade out of one of the pieces of wootz...LOVE my bandsaw - i had almost no clean up grinding after the cutting

All the parts cut out and in different stages of shaping and all

And shaped together

Milling done - it goes really fast when you're not cutting locks, milling under them...i love slippies, they are really pleasure to make


Bolsters in place and shaped

I thought i would stop at this point, cause i had done enough for the day, but frankly, i didn't have anything better to do

So i cut out the scales, milled them to a correct thickness.….

...installed them on the knife.…

...and contoured the handle, finishing at 240 grit all around...


At this point, i'm beat

But i will pick it up tomorrow, i want to grind and HT the blade and finish the handle... we'll see about that

Thanks for looking, Ondrej