aggierailroad
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Wow - there is no love here....
Blacksmithing Projects Journal
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Rhyno
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...Photobucket or your Picture Manager program, gives you a Pixel Size choice, while uploading....
The more pixels.... the larger and more defined, the pic is...
I'd guess that you, accidentally, chose a smaller size.
Rhyno
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A "BIG Thank You" going out.....
A package arrived, yesterday...
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/BlueLightRhyno/Fillet Knife/IMAG4081.jpg
Even though it was damaged, here are the contents...
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/BlueLightRhyno/Fillet Knife/IMAG4082.jpg
What a great surprise!! It kinda reminded me of X-Mas, as a child....
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A package arrived, yesterday...
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/BlueLightRhyno/Fillet Knife/IMAG4081.jpg
Even though it was damaged, here are the contents...
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/BlueLightRhyno/Fillet Knife/IMAG4082.jpg
What a great surprise!! It kinda reminded me of X-Mas, as a child....
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Rhyno
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I lost one of my girls, two days, ago. I thought about posting it here.
Similar story, similar bond, lots of love and lessons.....
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DoghouseForge
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A "BIG Thank You" going out.....
A package arrived, yesterday...
What a great surprise!! It kinda reminded me of X-Mas, as a child....
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Cool.
Looks like despite the damage its all there....
should be enough to keep you busy for at least the weekend.
Sorry about your partner. Theres really nothing to say that fixes it. They are a part of who we are and its with no exaggeration that I say a piece of us goes with them.
It still ***** without Sophie, I miss her on the regular, but I just keep trying to remember all the silly and fun things she use to do.
13 years for a dog the size of yours is a very good run. She must have really loved the life she lived go stay truckin that long.
Jp
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DoghouseForge
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So I got an update typed out last night, and the power went out in my house about 5 minutes before I was going to hit the "Submit" button...
Basically pissed me off beyond repair so going to bed was the only option... Tonight i am going to try again so if you are reading this I was in fact successful.
The small pics in the previous general update where due to some user error on my end while downloading the pics from my email account.. I have since fixed that issue and this post should be back to the normal picture size and quality...
Ok, enough house keeping and onto building some stuff...
A while back a client dropped off a HUGE cleaver to be sharpened. I posted it on Instagram and one of my fellow artisans requested a custom build to replicate something of the same caliber.
Over all it was a good learning experience and the end result came out pretty slick.
Because the mass needed to forge a blade this size isn't available in a single rasp thickness a "mega Blank" needed to be created...
It was composed of 3 layers of 1/4" rasp with the center layer being made up of a extra long "big hoof" draft rasp.
If you missed the Forge welding post a while back when the Rasp Ax was built then skip back for the details... basically it was the same process, but with a lot more mass to move around...
tack welds held everything in alignment while I got the first few forge welding heats started...
Cranked up!
after the first few rounds at closing the edges...
30 minutes and 17 elbow injections later... before and after...
(this thing has the density of a star)
The forging was kinda intense so I wasn't really focused on the photography but there are plenty of post in the past articles that will explain how to flow the steel into the shape your looking for.
Rough forged and the shape had been touched up with the big 10" Baldor expander wheel.
makers mark stamped and ready for normalizing...
At this point the completion called for celebratory dancing around the shop...I cant stress how freaking dense that blank was to forge by hand...definitely a power hammer level task but it got accomplished none the less.
(its ok! Stevo, the records are still working despite the Jackets being less than mint...like they actually like there job
)
Ok so normalizing done and ground into a really good looking and feeling blade...
This thing looked really cool with the forging still inlaid, and since it was 90% forged the thickness was already ideal so leaving it was actually an option unlike the knives with thinner spines.
one other note for this point in the build is the addition of the "bridge" holes in the tang. The large holes are for the usual pin set alignment but the smaller line of holes acts as a pass through bridge to connect the epoxy from one side of the tang through to the other. This makes the handle bond much stronger...
Overall this was a very satisfying build...to literally start with nothing but raw steel and forge every step form nothing felt so liberating...But...with pushing the limits of your experience comes the risk of finding out what you don't know...
On the lower edge on one side I had what i thought was a forging scar from being careless but it ended up being a small pocket where the weld hadn't fully combined...I worked on it for a while and couldn't find anywhere that was not jointed, but the pocket left enough doubt that there could be others ( not in sight). That could compromise the blade strength, and as much as it sucked to inform the buyer, this knife was officially for display use only...
I went ahead and finished it out. It will be a nice piece for future Photos and despite its flaw the process was an incredible one that I will not soon forget...especially since I have to make another one to fill the order!
So here's the DogHouse Forge "Mega" Cleaver... finished with a Spalted Big Leaf Maple Burl and aluminum pin set.
On the lower edge you can see the left over void from the un-welded pocket...Like it mentioned its stable but still just not ok to pass inspection..
Basically pissed me off beyond repair so going to bed was the only option... Tonight i am going to try again so if you are reading this I was in fact successful.
The small pics in the previous general update where due to some user error on my end while downloading the pics from my email account.. I have since fixed that issue and this post should be back to the normal picture size and quality...
Ok, enough house keeping and onto building some stuff...
A while back a client dropped off a HUGE cleaver to be sharpened. I posted it on Instagram and one of my fellow artisans requested a custom build to replicate something of the same caliber.
Over all it was a good learning experience and the end result came out pretty slick.
Because the mass needed to forge a blade this size isn't available in a single rasp thickness a "mega Blank" needed to be created...
It was composed of 3 layers of 1/4" rasp with the center layer being made up of a extra long "big hoof" draft rasp.
If you missed the Forge welding post a while back when the Rasp Ax was built then skip back for the details... basically it was the same process, but with a lot more mass to move around...
tack welds held everything in alignment while I got the first few forge welding heats started...
Cranked up!
after the first few rounds at closing the edges...
30 minutes and 17 elbow injections later... before and after...
(this thing has the density of a star)
The forging was kinda intense so I wasn't really focused on the photography but there are plenty of post in the past articles that will explain how to flow the steel into the shape your looking for.
Rough forged and the shape had been touched up with the big 10" Baldor expander wheel.
makers mark stamped and ready for normalizing...
At this point the completion called for celebratory dancing around the shop...I cant stress how freaking dense that blank was to forge by hand...definitely a power hammer level task but it got accomplished none the less.
(its ok! Stevo, the records are still working despite the Jackets being less than mint...like they actually like there job
)
Ok so normalizing done and ground into a really good looking and feeling blade...
This thing looked really cool with the forging still inlaid, and since it was 90% forged the thickness was already ideal so leaving it was actually an option unlike the knives with thinner spines.
one other note for this point in the build is the addition of the "bridge" holes in the tang. The large holes are for the usual pin set alignment but the smaller line of holes acts as a pass through bridge to connect the epoxy from one side of the tang through to the other. This makes the handle bond much stronger...
Overall this was a very satisfying build...to literally start with nothing but raw steel and forge every step form nothing felt so liberating...But...with pushing the limits of your experience comes the risk of finding out what you don't know...
On the lower edge on one side I had what i thought was a forging scar from being careless but it ended up being a small pocket where the weld hadn't fully combined...I worked on it for a while and couldn't find anywhere that was not jointed, but the pocket left enough doubt that there could be others ( not in sight). That could compromise the blade strength, and as much as it sucked to inform the buyer, this knife was officially for display use only...
I went ahead and finished it out. It will be a nice piece for future Photos and despite its flaw the process was an incredible one that I will not soon forget...especially since I have to make another one to fill the order!
So here's the DogHouse Forge "Mega" Cleaver... finished with a Spalted Big Leaf Maple Burl and aluminum pin set.
On the lower edge you can see the left over void from the un-welded pocket...Like it mentioned its stable but still just not ok to pass inspection..
OP
DoghouseForge
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Okay here are some glamour shots of the latest knives... I also have a lot of good woodworking projects under way and will post on then once completed...
Wide Blade Pairing with Big leaf maple burl and Spalted Tamarind... Finished with Brass spacers and brass pin set.
These two went to Texas...
5" Utility with Big leaf maple burl and Blue redwood burl..Finished with combined Brass/Aluminum/Brass spacers and Brass pin set
8"slicer with Buckeye Burl and aluminum pin set
11" or 279mm Slicer with Buckeye Burl inserted tang handle. Wrapped up with a brass bolster and pommel.
8" "Cutaway" Chef with natural Buckeye, Bloodwood, and brass pin set...
This blade was forged to almost 80% completion which is how it retained the rasp lines so well compared to previous chefs of this size...
Wide Blade Pairing with Big leaf maple burl and Spalted Tamarind... Finished with Brass spacers and brass pin set.
These two went to Texas...
5" Utility with Big leaf maple burl and Blue redwood burl..Finished with combined Brass/Aluminum/Brass spacers and Brass pin set
8"slicer with Buckeye Burl and aluminum pin set
11" or 279mm Slicer with Buckeye Burl inserted tang handle. Wrapped up with a brass bolster and pommel.
8" "Cutaway" Chef with natural Buckeye, Bloodwood, and brass pin set...
This blade was forged to almost 80% completion which is how it retained the rasp lines so well compared to previous chefs of this size...
MP&C
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Beautiful work!
aggierailroad
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Did you steal my knife?
It like Texas better than Florida, anyways...
It like Texas better than Florida, anyways...
toms73novass
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Things are looking great! Have you had a chance to get the heat treating oven up and running?
OP
DoghouseForge
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Not yet... the wire came in a month or two ago and I have everything ready to install. ?.just been so busy with farrier business that every extrs second has gone to filling Doghouse orders and being a dad/husband. Im gonna call you soon and get a walk through if you dont mind. I know we talked about it before but ive hit reset a few times since then.
To everyone else ...I thank you, means alot from you guys... I owe alot of the fact that this is succeeding to the advice and inspiration of the GJ family. And Aggie, I guess he deserves some credit... not artistically because hes a woodworker and crys when things get scratched. I keep telling him to " fill it with weld and buff it back out" but I think the crying clogs his ears up.
I have a BUNCH of projects wrapping up so more to come soon.
Until then know that big things are happening and we couldn't be having more fun doing it
Jp
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DoghouseForge
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Well...Lets just say there is a fairly large, Saw dust ridden area at the front section of my shop...Seemed like when I started this round of wood working projects I was keeping a really clean work area and sweeping up everyday...By the end the "normal grind and stop at 2 Am" the cleaning was put off.
Oh Well, looks like my next spare day will be on dust removal...
So what made all this saw dust you ask?!?
The answer is four separate builds. One huge serving board, Two 20+" Butcher-block Cutting-boards, and the Cu de Gras.... a Kitchen Island Top arranged completely with end-grain assembly.
Call it what you will, but I purposely guided each customers design into the same three wood selections. While the layouts were unique the fact that I could do MASSIVE! glue ups and then divide them among the individual projects made this possible in a much more efficient time frame. I will say that the Island top taught me a different level of patients. To the point that I actually called the customer, and explained that I have no idea when it will be ready to ship... The wood was moving so fast and on such a grand scale that I had no idea when it would settle enough to be stable for sealing and install.
So here's the most recent round of the woodworking...This should be fun for you guys that have been with me since the very first "pringled" cutting-board ... The process has come a long way in a relatively short time...
I'm sure your getting tired of me saying it, but I owe most all this success to the techniques and tips I have learned from Mr. Aggie.
Bloodwood, Walnut, and the Ambrosia Maple just look amazing together... The Ambrosia gets a beautiful gold tone to it once sealed and polished, and the Walnut and Bloodwood were meant to live next door to one another.
In order to build all the project I needed some really big Glue ups...50" by 30" to be exact... the walnut and Bloodwood didn't need as much since they were accent rows, but even as accents they took up the better part of 30"x 30" ...
Believe it or not the blacksmith has gotten fairly decent at squaring his lumber. The amount of education I was missing on this subject is embarrassing, but at least now I have the planner, table, and radial arm saws tuned up with premium blades so I'm off to the right start.
Ambrosia Glue ups in Long form -
Walnut glue up
The finished Long Form Glue ups... that is 100"s of Ambrosia!!!!!
Next the radial arm saw made quick work of cutting all the glue ups into the individual sections I needed to create all the different butcher-block patterns.
Kinda Rad! that's almost $300 of wood stacked right there...
laid out and organized... both the Island top and the larger of the two butch-blocks...
The Cauls for this monster were critical... overkill?!? probably, but when you see how flat this thing came out you might pack a little more forgiveness...
This ones for Brad... Apron and a pensive glue application pose..
Over the next few days the shop basically stayed in a constant state of compression...
NOW! the Fun can really begin...Respirator, ear protection, and goggles couldn't keep me free of the dust cloud I was about to create.
Oh Well, looks like my next spare day will be on dust removal...
So what made all this saw dust you ask?!?
The answer is four separate builds. One huge serving board, Two 20+" Butcher-block Cutting-boards, and the Cu de Gras.... a Kitchen Island Top arranged completely with end-grain assembly.
Call it what you will, but I purposely guided each customers design into the same three wood selections. While the layouts were unique the fact that I could do MASSIVE! glue ups and then divide them among the individual projects made this possible in a much more efficient time frame. I will say that the Island top taught me a different level of patients. To the point that I actually called the customer, and explained that I have no idea when it will be ready to ship... The wood was moving so fast and on such a grand scale that I had no idea when it would settle enough to be stable for sealing and install.
So here's the most recent round of the woodworking...This should be fun for you guys that have been with me since the very first "pringled" cutting-board ... The process has come a long way in a relatively short time...
I'm sure your getting tired of me saying it, but I owe most all this success to the techniques and tips I have learned from Mr. Aggie.
Polishing the Turd
Bloodwood, Walnut, and the Ambrosia Maple just look amazing together... The Ambrosia gets a beautiful gold tone to it once sealed and polished, and the Walnut and Bloodwood were meant to live next door to one another.
In order to build all the project I needed some really big Glue ups...50" by 30" to be exact... the walnut and Bloodwood didn't need as much since they were accent rows, but even as accents they took up the better part of 30"x 30" ...
Believe it or not the blacksmith has gotten fairly decent at squaring his lumber. The amount of education I was missing on this subject is embarrassing, but at least now I have the planner, table, and radial arm saws tuned up with premium blades so I'm off to the right start.
Ambrosia Glue ups in Long form -
Walnut glue up
The finished Long Form Glue ups... that is 100"s of Ambrosia!!!!!
Next the radial arm saw made quick work of cutting all the glue ups into the individual sections I needed to create all the different butcher-block patterns.
Kinda Rad! that's almost $300 of wood stacked right there...
laid out and organized... both the Island top and the larger of the two butch-blocks...
The Cauls for this monster were critical... overkill?!? probably, but when you see how flat this thing came out you might pack a little more forgiveness...
This ones for Brad... Apron and a pensive glue application pose..
Over the next few days the shop basically stayed in a constant state of compression...
NOW! the Fun can really begin...Respirator, ear protection, and goggles couldn't keep me free of the dust cloud I was about to create.
OP
DoghouseForge
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So Lots!!!!!!! of sanding later and it was finally time to start the sealer and polish...
However, a quick word on drying...its a bi##h! I had to flip this thing over every 6-8 hours to keep it drying flat. This went on for a few days... Once it was stable enough I took it home and set it on edge so it could finish off evenly...
Because this was a actual counter top surface I didn't sand every imperfection and scratch out of the surface... This way when they scratch it in a month or week or day after they install it the new "whoops" wont stand out so horribly... Don't get me wrong...I'm talking about really! fine hair line scratches... Just enough for it to not look perfect!
The Sealer application also was a bit more involved for this one...I did the normal sanding to 400 grit...Applied the first coat and then sanded it back to get ride of the "popped" seem edges... Then it got subsequent coats from 400 grit all the way to 2500 grit...I'm not exaggerating when I say it took me a week to work through all the applications... The bottom, since it wont be seen, got three thick coats just to seal it off, and the sides got the same treatment as the top.
Here is after the second coat at 400 with the seams leveled
Here's after 800 grit
And here is after 2500 grit and some delicate caresses...
lean back and don't drool on your key board...
Remember that's 100%food safe mineral oil and bees wax finish!!! and after a few days it was hard as a rock hard enough to handle a grapefruit!
So after almost 10 days of my guest room being off limits to dogs, children, and the houses AC set to a basically constant cranking 72 degrees in order to control the humidity; The last coat of sealer was applied, and these beauties got a few deserved days to just sit and cure...
Here is the larger of the cutting boards... It went to a new home in Dallas Texas... the new owner has a few of my knives and has already placed an order for a magnet rack (if Aggie ever finishes them) and a Santaku chef. I like the returning clients. Its easier to build for someone when you know they already dig your style...
The Kitchen Island arrived safely in Georgia this week and the client was thrilled... Here's the pics of it in its new home.
before shipping ... I didn't cover the skirts in the above build info, but its has them to mask the current tops edge. Removing it was apparently not an option so these solved the appearance issue...
The overhang on the ends is about 1.5" after the skirts are applied. It was suggested that I install dowels to the over hang edges to help prevent shear issues. The Titebond III has some five figure shear/pound break point but better safe than sorry. Artistically I decided to use walnut dowels in the ambrosia and be out right with the fact that they are there instead of trying to blend maple dowels out of sight...Its to each their own, but I'm very happy with the way this looks. Adds a level of "legitness" to the piece.
They extend 6" inward and the main body is supported by the original top so this should do the trick.
I just love this edge...
And here it sits in it new "forever" kitchen...The skirts haven't been applied yet, but they should be mostly hidden from the overhang anyway.
Remember that wonky A$$ cutting board from Christmas...Well they liked it..despite my gorilla like finesse in the assembly alignment... I did a little bit better job for them on this one though. These folks have also pre ordered a magnet rack, and a set of steak knives that i should have finished in 2016...
Feels good to see the work in someones home and be jealous that they have your stuff instead of you..
Thanks for checking it out!
JP
One final tie in since im gonna be busy for the next couple weeks..
Here is a finished 6" Traditional French Knife in Spalted Curly maple with 1/4" Aluminum pin set:
I like this little knife.. reminds me of my first "real" chefs knife that my Chef and Su Chef got me as a Christmas bonus when i worked a "Jim Goulds" in college ... Kinda the perfect size knife...
and lastly....
Everyone meet Luke!
Hes been with me for a week and I'm honestly pretty pumped about having him around. I wasn't really looking for another dog, but my wife said that since Sophie past I've been a grumpy ***** so she tricked me into a SPCA stop... She had already found him and acted like he was just "there"...
He's a 6 month old corgi/Aussie or Corgi/Golden mix...lol...time will tell... I'm pretty sure its the Aussie cross, but regardless he's learning really fast and has the right relaxed demeanor that a farriers dog requires...
Have a great weekend!
However, a quick word on drying...its a bi##h! I had to flip this thing over every 6-8 hours to keep it drying flat. This went on for a few days... Once it was stable enough I took it home and set it on edge so it could finish off evenly...
Because this was a actual counter top surface I didn't sand every imperfection and scratch out of the surface... This way when they scratch it in a month or week or day after they install it the new "whoops" wont stand out so horribly... Don't get me wrong...I'm talking about really! fine hair line scratches... Just enough for it to not look perfect!
The Sealer application also was a bit more involved for this one...I did the normal sanding to 400 grit...Applied the first coat and then sanded it back to get ride of the "popped" seem edges... Then it got subsequent coats from 400 grit all the way to 2500 grit...I'm not exaggerating when I say it took me a week to work through all the applications... The bottom, since it wont be seen, got three thick coats just to seal it off, and the sides got the same treatment as the top.
Here is after the second coat at 400 with the seams leveled
Here's after 800 grit
And here is after 2500 grit and some delicate caresses...
lean back and don't drool on your key board...
Remember that's 100%food safe mineral oil and bees wax finish!!! and after a few days it was hard as a rock
hard enough to handle a grapefruit!So after almost 10 days of my guest room being off limits to dogs, children, and the houses AC set to a basically constant cranking 72 degrees in order to control the humidity; The last coat of sealer was applied, and these beauties got a few deserved days to just sit and cure...
Here is the larger of the cutting boards... It went to a new home in Dallas Texas... the new owner has a few of my knives and has already placed an order for a magnet rack (if Aggie ever finishes them) and a Santaku chef. I like the returning clients. Its easier to build for someone when you know they already dig your style...
The Kitchen Island arrived safely in Georgia this week and the client was thrilled... Here's the pics of it in its new home.
before shipping ... I didn't cover the skirts in the above build info, but its has them to mask the current tops edge. Removing it was apparently not an option so these solved the appearance issue...
The overhang on the ends is about 1.5" after the skirts are applied. It was suggested that I install dowels to the over hang edges to help prevent shear issues. The Titebond III has some five figure shear/pound break point but better safe than sorry. Artistically I decided to use walnut dowels in the ambrosia and be out right with the fact that they are there instead of trying to blend maple dowels out of sight...Its to each their own, but I'm very happy with the way this looks. Adds a level of "legitness" to the piece.
They extend 6" inward and the main body is supported by the original top so this should do the trick.
I just love this edge...
And here it sits in it new "forever" kitchen...The skirts haven't been applied yet, but they should be mostly hidden from the overhang anyway.
Remember that wonky A$$ cutting board from Christmas...Well they liked it..despite my gorilla like finesse in the assembly alignment... I did a little bit better job for them on this one though.
These folks have also pre ordered a magnet rack, and a set of steak knives that i should have finished in 2016...
Feels good to see the work in someones home and be jealous that they have your stuff instead of you..
Thanks for checking it out!
JP
One final tie in since im gonna be busy for the next couple weeks..
Here is a finished 6" Traditional French Knife in Spalted Curly maple with 1/4" Aluminum pin set:
I like this little knife.. reminds me of my first "real" chefs knife that my Chef and Su Chef got me as a Christmas bonus when i worked a "Jim Goulds" in college ... Kinda the perfect size knife...
and lastly....
Everyone meet Luke!
Hes been with me for a week and I'm honestly pretty pumped about having him around. I wasn't really looking for another dog, but my wife said that since Sophie past I've been a grumpy ***** so she tricked me into a SPCA stop... She had already found him and acted like he was just "there"...
He's a 6 month old corgi/Aussie or Corgi/Golden mix...lol...time will tell... I'm pretty sure its the Aussie cross, but regardless he's learning really fast and has the right relaxed demeanor that a farriers dog requires...
Have a great weekend!
metal1313
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beautiful work, i love that little chefs knife, might have to talk to you about a similar one for the misses.
is your ras capable of cross cutting something almost 3ft wide???
is your ras capable of cross cutting something almost 3ft wide???
OP
DoghouseForge
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Thanks! Aggies done a nice job with the custom order process , and we'd love to build something for you. You can gind it at www.doghouseforge.com
The RAS has an 18" draw... with the stop jig I used I could run the cuts from the rear to the front and flip it to do the other side, I kniw its intended to run with a pull cut but it was real easy to do. Just keep your fingers out of the path and your hand on the saw head...
Ok everyone
insert criticism of my saw use here:_____________________
metal1313
Well-known member
i think its time for a cabinet saw and a cross cut slide table then
Rhyno
Well-known member
It looks good!
Congrats on the new "pooch." He'll help you heal, and progress on to the next "chapter."
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OP
DoghouseForge
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The "Almost June" Update...
In an effort to get some quality High Resolution pictures for the sculptural items that will soon be listed in the doghouse store; the latest Calla Lilly order took a short detour at the photographers before shipping to its new owner... It also came very close to not getting shipped at all since the handling services all wanted over $150... It took some arguing and persistence but it left at $44.
Here are the photos that will be used on:
www.doghouseforge.com
Rhyno has a Zebra Fetish
I got an awesome package from Rhyno the other day...He basically told me in very few, pink zebra laced words that I need to get back to my Jeep restoration. He decided that he would sponsor the wire wheel arsenal. LOL
More on that soon...Lets just say the frame is in grave danger!
Luke Update!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This little dude is all right...just under two weeks and hes settling in nicely. Its weird having a truck mate again, but at the end of the day I lift up the center console and he crawls over to sleep with his head on my lap... Thats a good feeling.
As for the "hows he getting along with the kiddo" question...
...and yes... my Ivy is impeccable...
In other News -
Florida has had a dangerous person on the loose... Its believed they are between the age of 13 and 20 with a unhealthy "**** and Balls" humor level...
Sad really...this poor horse never saw it coming...
Fathers Day!!!!
Unfortunately the majority of the Doghouse Forge inventory has been sold, but I do have these two rail road spike knives available.
If anyone is interested in picking one up contact me through the DogHouse Forge web site prior to ordering and I will extend %15 off for GJ members...
Lots of detailed photos included in the listings at:
http://www.doghouseforge.com/shop
'So that's about it...Lots in the fire and I think Aggie might have actually finished a project!!!!!
which means the first ever Doghouse Forge and Blackhat Shopworks collaboration is almost here!!!Have a great rest of the weekend... Ill be busy tomorrow finishing a forged Rose order...
aggierailroad
Well-known member
Teach a guy to glue some wood together and all you get back is pain and ridicule...
Yeah, he is right. I've finally finished a few of those knife blocks. Planing cocobolo is a pain in the ****. Basically, I took a block, routed a groove, made a basswood spacer for the magnets, glued them in, shaped maple spars for the back of that, shaped end caps (mortised to the block) and glued those. Took a few more swipes with the plane from the top to dial in the magnet strength, ease the edges with the file, oil and wax finish.
These are a bit different. They were designed a little shorter to fit on the side of a standard upper kitchen cabinet, and they use 3M command strips, no drilling required. With the push for glass/tile/granite backsplashes these days, our scientists and engineers came up with a solution for that problem
Cocobolo smells like butter when you plane it.. It's weird, but it makes me sneeze.
Anyways... thanks to JP, these will soon be for sale at the doghouseforge.com website in the very near future. I'm happy to say that he has pushed me out of my comfort level of making a product to sell (I'm selfish and keep everything I make) and that push has gone even farther, with a collaboration with some local consignment shops in my area. It's been fun, I hope other people like them, if not, I'll need more knives to hang on the 6 or so blocks I have!
Yeah, he is right. I've finally finished a few of those knife blocks. Planing cocobolo is a pain in the ****. Basically, I took a block, routed a groove, made a basswood spacer for the magnets, glued them in, shaped maple spars for the back of that, shaped end caps (mortised to the block) and glued those. Took a few more swipes with the plane from the top to dial in the magnet strength, ease the edges with the file, oil and wax finish.
These are a bit different. They were designed a little shorter to fit on the side of a standard upper kitchen cabinet, and they use 3M command strips, no drilling required. With the push for glass/tile/granite backsplashes these days, our scientists and engineers came up with a solution for that problem
Cocobolo smells like butter when you plane it.. It's weird, but it makes me sneeze.
Anyways... thanks to JP, these will soon be for sale at the doghouseforge.com website in the very near future. I'm happy to say that he has pushed me out of my comfort level of making a product to sell (I'm selfish and keep everything I make) and that push has gone even farther, with a collaboration with some local consignment shops in my area. It's been fun, I hope other people like them, if not, I'll need more knives to hang on the 6 or so blocks I have!
hippie2cams
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just finished the thread and I must say it was a trip. I enjoyed watching you grow as a blacksmith knife making woodworker horseshoer into someone with great talent for knife making and other blacksmithing. I just have one question and I think you know because you do your best to hide the fact. I have never seen someone remove the hardy hole on an anvil with a torch or at least that's what it looked like. I know that you would have not done such a thing. I have not been to your website yet, but you can be assured that I will visit there very soon. Thank You for sharing your talents with us, they are thoroughly enjoyed
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DoghouseForge
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My ******* are down...
yah, that hardy cut out is embarrassing and a source of regular disappointment.
But, the monster was free, I found it behind a barn and it took a year but I finally convinced the owner to stop letting it waste away and give it to me.
Now getting it into the back of my truck by myself could have been in a comedy skit.
the hardy had already been cut and after I cleaned and restored a bit of "ol Peter" it was my intention to clean the cuts and weld in a new hardy section. Then I realized that I own two other immaculate anvils so thus one just needs to stay a shop beater.
Thanks for the credit in knowing I wouldn't do that.
The next anvil I buy is going to be a double horn no less than 300lbs it eill have two hardy holes to make up for this one.
hippie2cams
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I have been on the hunt for a good anvil for a few years now and finally found one close to home. After traveling all over the place, everytime I heard about an anvil for sale. I was talking to my neighbor across the street and happen to mention it to him. That's when he told me about his ex-boss that lived around the curve from me, and said he had an anvil that belonged to his dad. Well I told him that there was no way he would sell anything that belonged to his dad and he said, don't hurt to ask does it? Well the next day I asked and he said yes, that he would sell it but would have to get at least a 100$ for it, I almost broke my arm getting to my money. I tried to pick it up, noway jose, need help. told him I would be back to get it and he gives me my money back, and says pay me when you pick it up. Long story short I got help to load it got home and started cleaning all the heavy rust off. and found out that I had bought a Hay Budden 260 lb. anvil made in 1902 for 100$ dollars. I then found an old hand crank forge and some tongs that needed some cleaning to go with it. When I get it all reassembled I am going to try my hand at some forging.
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DoghouseForge
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WELL...??? ITS BEEN TWO DAYS SINCE YOU POSTED THAT... you should be up and hammering hot steel by now.
Be sure and post your stuff on here when you get started.
JP
I too just picked up a 260# Hay Budden, although I paid almost twice as much as Hippie, I still feel great about it. Just need to find a forge now, any good DIY models or do I need to find a real deal?
Love your posts Doghouse, keep up the great work!
Love your posts Doghouse, keep up the great work!
Southernbuild
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Everyone meet Luke!
Hes been with me for a week and I'm honestly pretty pumped about having him around. I wasn't really looking for another dog, but my wife said that since Sophie past I've been a grumpy ***** so she tricked me into a SPCA stop... She had already found him and acted like he was just "there"...
He's a 6 month old corgi/Aussie or Corgi/Golden mix...lol...time will tell... I'm pretty sure its the Aussie cross, but regardless he's learning really fast and has the right relaxed demeanor that a farriers dog requires...
Looks like a real nice dog, enjoy your new friend!
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DoghouseForge
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Looks like a real nice dog, enjoy your new friend!
Thanks ! Lukes working out well... He has an very annoying puppy bark that's not going so hot with the week old baby we just brought home but he will grow...
Congrats "Nine"... that's awesome!
Check This out... some of the Instagram knife guys have variations on this theme that they use for heat treating and some small forging. Its a start! and i imagine more useful than you would think. The coolest one I've seen is the same principle, but with a couple bricks and two torch inputs. He cut each brick out so that when pushed together they make a tube big enough to fit medium size blades in...
Keep us posted !
JP
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DoghouseForge
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Just wanted to add a link for fire brick to go with the micro forge link above.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=firebrick&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=firebrick&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
guitarsail
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Hey JP! Man, so cool to swing by here and see all the work you've been doing! Sorry to hear about Sophie too, great dog. Luke looks like he's gonna shape up to be an awesome dog too! We gotta hang out soon!
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DoghouseForge
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Last year I posted a step by step on forging roses. Since its already in the stacks Ill just put the link here if anyone is interested in the specifics of the process.
After posting that project another blacksmith threw up his version of the rose, and I must admit his detail and texture work was far superior to my own. Since then I have changed my process slightly to give more depth to the roses so I thought an update would be productive.
Here's the link to the page with the original post on forged roses in case the mostly photo based post from tonight leaves you with questions.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=200204&page=7
post #123
I don't like the plasma cut look to my blanks. They make the flowers look to perfect for my taste. Artistically, my focus is to make them look as real as possible so the having each blanks completely unique makes that possible. In order to get better texture the entire blank is creased with a cross pein or edge of a rounding hammer. I forge them pretty deep and them smooth them back out to the level of texture in trying to create.
Belly Up to the Doghouses Bar...
Again, using the random weld bead as texture ensures each rose hip is different.
cant make a bloom without starting with the bud
Brass Brushwork
I like shellac for this type of project ... The finish is really only there to protect the steel from surface rust and lightly enhance the coloring. Shellac dries super fast so I can do a lot of repeat coats quickly and get good coverage in all the little creases without over loading and causing runs in the finish.
Needed some Hi Res Shots for the web site so I had these photographed by the same team that took the knife shots and the calla lilly.
One other notable project was a fun Ambrosia based serving platter. It measured 22"x18"? i think...... Regardless, it was pretty sweet. Definitely didn't want to give this one up to the new owner...
JP
have a great week!
After posting that project another blacksmith threw up his version of the rose, and I must admit his detail and texture work was far superior to my own. Since then I have changed my process slightly to give more depth to the roses so I thought an update would be productive.
Here's the link to the page with the original post on forged roses in case the mostly photo based post from tonight leaves you with questions.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=200204&page=7
post #123
I don't like the plasma cut look to my blanks. They make the flowers look to perfect for my taste. Artistically, my focus is to make them look as real as possible so the having each blanks completely unique makes that possible. In order to get better texture the entire blank is creased with a cross pein or edge of a rounding hammer. I forge them pretty deep and them smooth them back out to the level of texture in trying to create.
Belly Up to the Doghouses Bar...
Again, using the random weld bead as texture ensures each rose hip is different.
cant make a bloom without starting with the bud
Brass Brushwork
I like shellac for this type of project ... The finish is really only there to protect the steel from surface rust and lightly enhance the coloring. Shellac dries super fast so I can do a lot of repeat coats quickly and get good coverage in all the little creases without over loading and causing runs in the finish.
Needed some Hi Res Shots for the web site so I had these photographed by the same team that took the knife shots and the calla lilly.
One other notable project was a fun Ambrosia based serving platter. It measured 22"x18"? i think...... Regardless, it was pretty sweet. Definitely didn't want to give this one up to the new owner...
JP
have a great week!
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54FordPanel
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Really nice work, JP.
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DoghouseForge
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So i just want to acknowledge that lately this thread has become more of a gallery for the work being done in the Doghouse than the How to breakdown it was intended to be.
In all honestly this whole Doghouse Forge side business has kinda blown up and I wasn't ready for it. With the 50 hours a week i devote to my Farrier Business all the free time i use to have for doing the project breakdowns and working on my jeep have been sucked up by filling the backlog of orders.
I just wanted to apologize for the lack of "how to" posting. There are some changes on the horizon that will allow me more time in the shop so I can get back to building the new ideas instead of just cranking out the catalog.
Now that I've said all that... here's a completely photo related post
June's knives ( half of them anyway)
Had a restoration project:
A Local family's cleaver ... forged in 1843 . They wanted the handle redone because it had deteriorated and the edge sharpened... but NO! surface patina removed.
They wanted a simple handle to fit the orginal feel. So basic Red Oak and brass was an easy fix.
I work with a stabilizer to get the crazy spalted, Burled, and dyed scales that I use. His specialty is hybrid acrylic resin and live edge wood mixes. We worked out a trade a while back for a load of scales. His payment was a forged Cut Way Chef with one of his hybrid scales used for the handle... Holy **** this thing came out slick!
8.75" Cut Away Chef with Beyond Wood Products Hybrid walnut Burl scales and Aluminum pin set.
Also have a custom order for an 8" Cut Away Chef with Bloodwood and Spalted Curly Maple. This one was tricky due to the large brass spacers and the smaller aluminum spacers needing to line up perfectly... it seems easy but darn is this a pain to get right on the money.
The last one in this update is my first hunting knife...
Im happy with it, but made allot of little mistakes in the handling. the main being that for some reason my brain didn't register that antler isn't the same color all the way through like wood so i nicked it when grinding and left little white sections... oh well ..next time...
6" Clip point with Brass guard, Bubinga anf Rosewood spacer, and "pet store stag' antler.
So more to come soon and thank everyone for the previous compliments and support!
have a great week
In all honestly this whole Doghouse Forge side business has kinda blown up and I wasn't ready for it. With the 50 hours a week i devote to my Farrier Business all the free time i use to have for doing the project breakdowns and working on my jeep have been sucked up by filling the backlog of orders.
I just wanted to apologize for the lack of "how to" posting. There are some changes on the horizon that will allow me more time in the shop so I can get back to building the new ideas instead of just cranking out the catalog.
Now that I've said all that... here's a completely photo related post
June's knives ( half of them anyway)
Had a restoration project:
A Local family's cleaver ... forged in 1843 . They wanted the handle redone because it had deteriorated and the edge sharpened... but NO! surface patina removed.
They wanted a simple handle to fit the orginal feel. So basic Red Oak and brass was an easy fix.
I work with a stabilizer to get the crazy spalted, Burled, and dyed scales that I use. His specialty is hybrid acrylic resin and live edge wood mixes. We worked out a trade a while back for a load of scales. His payment was a forged Cut Way Chef with one of his hybrid scales used for the handle... Holy **** this thing came out slick!
8.75" Cut Away Chef with Beyond Wood Products Hybrid walnut Burl scales and Aluminum pin set.
Also have a custom order for an 8" Cut Away Chef with Bloodwood and Spalted Curly Maple. This one was tricky due to the large brass spacers and the smaller aluminum spacers needing to line up perfectly... it seems easy but darn is this a pain to get right on the money.
The last one in this update is my first hunting knife...
Im happy with it, but made allot of little mistakes in the handling. the main being that for some reason my brain didn't register that antler isn't the same color all the way through like wood so i nicked it when grinding and left little white sections... oh well ..next time...
6" Clip point with Brass guard, Bubinga anf Rosewood spacer, and "pet store stag' antler.
So more to come soon and thank everyone for the previous compliments and support!
have a great week
memphisnate
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I'm having withdrawals...twitches, eye spasms, nightmares.....HA!
Hopefully all is well and you're busy with the business!
Hopefully all is well and you're busy with the business!
Radio Ron w4ron
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I just went through all 18 pages of this thread, some amazing stuff,
I LOVE the knives and the wood work using the exotic woods, GREAT STUFF,
I'm impressed.
I LOVE the knives and the wood work using the exotic woods, GREAT STUFF,
I'm impressed.
OP
DoghouseForge
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GREAT STUFF,
I'm impressed.
"Menshisnate" I apologize...Been so busy around here I cant even remember what this morning was.
"Radioron" I appreciate it! thanks!
So its been busy... to say the least... For starters my family moved from our first house to our new house this month, and I have know idea how but we amassed so much stuff in the 6 years we lived in our old home. It just kept coming...took three weekends and a few late nights but we made it to the other side...
Admittedly, I was really sad to leave our 100 year old house. It was so alive with its creaks and pops. I know how everything worked because I've had to fix it at least once
so it was a long sad afternoon as I closed the doors and readied it for the new family that was eager to begin their "first real home" experience. Maybe one day we will move back in but for now this new house is the right move for our growing family.
I will admit that "tired" was passed many weeks ago, and I have been running on coffee and milk shakes since July 7th...
Sad but true...
Aggie and Myself have been working, basically during our morning and evening commute, at "Building the Empire" (thanks Brad) ... Its starting to get fun as we have booked a few guest artist for Doghouseforge.com. The site has been going through a steady growth period as we get everything developed and ready for the fall season...Just to look back a year ago I have to laugh... The DogHouse was rented with no real idea what was ahead..."A place to work on my Jeep" ...lol...poor jeep...one day ill get back to her.
Funny to think that a work bench built out of the neighbors dumpster pallets now operates almost daily at fabricating the knives and projects we take on...
I keep thinking about rebuilding it...nah..
A couple cool knife builds to note are a Box elder Burl Chef and the final Leutywood Chef of the series.
These will be finished up this week and should be quite the lookers.
On a rather sad note I have to announce my weakness has become handle material (and coffee as previously shown) ...
I just cant resist! So many bright ideas!
Been working on the photography a bit since professional photos for the entire web site doesn't really fit the budget... Coming along...I need a tripod...think that Ill get one this weekend...
Hers three that left for a consignment deal before I could get pics taken of them. Luckily the ones that sold were already photographed.
The 3 rasp Forge welded Cleaver from a couple months back
Here's some decent pics of the last Utility Knife build. All I had before were camera phone pics.
And the big 9" slicer with the Buckeye Burl handle
I guess the last little update I have is that I finished a few sets of coasters out of "Tigre Caspi" its a fairly rare Peruvian Exotic hardwood. Wood turners like it because of how it carves, and I was going to use it for knife scales. However, as soon as I cut into it and saw the endgrain pattern I couldn't break it up any other way.
It was a very simple build...
-Cut into 3/8" thick cubes
-let them dry for a few days...flipping them as needed.
-Then seal them with your preferred finish. Since these will be in contact with moisture I used Spar Urethane ( Gloss ) and if i remember correctly its about 5 coats thick.
- cut cork for the bottom and applied with an overkill application of the 3M90 spray adhesive.
-use the belt sander and bevel your edges
More spar urethane on the sides to fix any nicks you made tuning the cork
and let them sit for a week to cure nice and hard.
definitely wont find those at pottery barn!
So that's about what i got for now. Lots! on the burners and in the oven and soon enough its either going to implode and kill me...or the hard work is going to pay off...
have a great week
JP
Oh. the heat treat oven should be operational soon. I tried to coil the wire by hand and it was an epic fail.. I think I made it 3 " before I couldn't keep it going...so as soon as I can get to my buddies machine shop Ill use the lathe and get it turned so we can fire that baby up...
Also, there is a coke forge in the near future. The blower and framework have been acquired...just need to save up for the pot and elbow... Not something I would have wanted a year ago but I'm thinking Damascus, large scale ornate pieces, and a power hammer are in the near future so I need to be able to get the steel hotter and with more isolated heat than my 3 burner will run efficiently.
OP
DoghouseForge
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Have a quick Knife update this evening.
The Box Elder Burl knife came out darn near perfect so I wanted to share the process.
So a couple weeks ago I started on this build. It was for an 8.5" Cut Away Chef with a Box Elder Burl Handle.
This knife is for the food editor of magazine that I hope to be able to share with you all soon so i needed to be as close to perfect as possible.
This was a multi-section handle glue up so each piece needs to be cut and fit before you can start shaping.
A little trick I use these days is to wrap my scales with electrical tape. Its stretchy so I you can pull the pieces really tightly together. This help ensure that your pin holes will stay in alignment. With a solid material handle you can have some drift in the alignment and no body will really be able to see it since there is nothing to reference location with. However, with these mulit-section handles if you mis-match your spacers or accent sections it sticks out like a sore thumb.
getting everything test fit before you start gluing is crucial
I run through the epoxy and clamp procedure a few times dry just to try and streamline the steps. 5 min epoxy is reall more like 3 min epoxy so time is important...
Once your ready is time to get the clamps on. I alternate under over and the main reason I decided to glue up the entire scale instead of trimming before hand is it gives me allot more surface area to apply pressure.
Sit back and smoke some cigar ...
I let the epoxy set over night. It claims a 1 hour cure time, but I've never had a joint fail if I let it cure over night..
The next step is to use the grinder and clean away all the overage from the tang. Be careful not to overheat the copper!!!! it will transfer the heat and destroy the epoxy so a little here and a little there, with other projects in between, is the best approach for this.
now the fun starts... use the high grits and start shaping.
I get the handle worked to this pint with the 1" wide belts. I prefer the "J-flex Gold" because the cloth back contours nicely with the handle shapes. This pic is 220 grit and basically the shape I'm going for. Now the real sculpting can be done as you hand sand the details and work all the curves into two equal sides.
2500 grit hand sanded... just a little damp rag to pop the grain, but the gloss on the burl is already there without even adding sealer.
Finish the blade and polish with the buffer. Then finish your cutting edge and hit that with the buffer... ready to go home for sealer...
When your all done you shuld get something like this.
DogHouse Forge Cut Away Chef - 8.5" blade with Boxelder Burl handle combo and copper accents.
So thanks for checking it out and look for some more cool updates soon.
also... Luke says "Do you even anvil surf Brahh?!?
The Box Elder Burl knife came out darn near perfect so I wanted to share the process.
So a couple weeks ago I started on this build. It was for an 8.5" Cut Away Chef with a Box Elder Burl Handle.
This knife is for the food editor of magazine that I hope to be able to share with you all soon so i needed to be as close to perfect as possible.
This was a multi-section handle glue up so each piece needs to be cut and fit before you can start shaping.
A little trick I use these days is to wrap my scales with electrical tape. Its stretchy so I you can pull the pieces really tightly together. This help ensure that your pin holes will stay in alignment. With a solid material handle you can have some drift in the alignment and no body will really be able to see it since there is nothing to reference location with. However, with these mulit-section handles if you mis-match your spacers or accent sections it sticks out like a sore thumb.
getting everything test fit before you start gluing is crucial
I run through the epoxy and clamp procedure a few times dry just to try and streamline the steps. 5 min epoxy is reall more like 3 min epoxy so time is important...
Once your ready is time to get the clamps on. I alternate under over and the main reason I decided to glue up the entire scale instead of trimming before hand is it gives me allot more surface area to apply pressure.
Sit back and smoke some cigar ...
I let the epoxy set over night. It claims a 1 hour cure time, but I've never had a joint fail if I let it cure over night..
The next step is to use the grinder and clean away all the overage from the tang. Be careful not to overheat the copper!!!! it will transfer the heat and destroy the epoxy so a little here and a little there, with other projects in between, is the best approach for this.
now the fun starts... use the high grits and start shaping.
I get the handle worked to this pint with the 1" wide belts. I prefer the "J-flex Gold" because the cloth back contours nicely with the handle shapes. This pic is 220 grit and basically the shape I'm going for. Now the real sculpting can be done as you hand sand the details and work all the curves into two equal sides.
2500 grit hand sanded... just a little damp rag to pop the grain, but the gloss on the burl is already there without even adding sealer.
Finish the blade and polish with the buffer. Then finish your cutting edge and hit that with the buffer... ready to go home for sealer...
When your all done you shuld get something like this.
DogHouse Forge Cut Away Chef - 8.5" blade with Boxelder Burl handle combo and copper accents.
So thanks for checking it out and look for some more cool updates soon.
also... Luke says "Do you even anvil surf Brahh?!?
OP
DoghouseForge
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Finished the last of this Months orders...Just in the nick of time!
Aggie and I are also working to get our Entry finished for the "Garden and Gun" magazines annual "Best made in the South Contest" ...More info on that this weekend.
If you haven't been to the web site and seen the new item listings please check it out. Aggie's been working hard on the descriptions and Item postings. each one is a different kind of awesome...and that's just the listings descriptions...
So a little photo dump for the eye candy folks and a more detailed post this weekend...
Finished the last-ish of the "Leutywood" barn knives... Its possible that Ill be able to get some more since this wood was such as hit.
This one was really fun because there was a section on the outer edge that had been burned at some point. It took allot of tweaking and hand sanding around it to keep it there but somehow it managed to survive the build.
The character pints are double with this thing because of it.
The newest edition to the Doghouse Line up is our "Work'n mans Chef" ... basically its like the title says...built for guys like myself whose hands get used so hard during the days work that they just don't wanna close anymore once the evening rolls around. We have always added thickness to our handles, but this beauty is like my great granddads "giant number phone" of knife handles.
The blade is a all in one design ... No sense in having 4 different mega handle knives that no body else can hold onto if 1 will do the trick.
Also finished a "little" fillet with Wenge wood handle... Im in love with this one...to bad it was sold before it ever saw the fire for the first time... good news is We are going to build another one and Aggie is going to make a matching wood Saya for the blade...PUMPED!
Here's a little peak at the Garden and Gun entry pics... Still working these out but fun pick regardless... The entry gets 3 pics total so its hard to showcase a years worth of forging in three moments of frozen time.
this one keeps calling me back but I'm just not sure...
Thanks for checking it out!
JP
Aggie and I are also working to get our Entry finished for the "Garden and Gun" magazines annual "Best made in the South Contest" ...More info on that this weekend.
If you haven't been to the web site and seen the new item listings please check it out. Aggie's been working hard on the descriptions and Item postings. each one is a different kind of awesome...and that's just the listings descriptions...
So a little photo dump for the eye candy folks and a more detailed post this weekend...
Finished the last-ish of the "Leutywood" barn knives... Its possible that Ill be able to get some more since this wood was such as hit.
This one was really fun because there was a section on the outer edge that had been burned at some point. It took allot of tweaking and hand sanding around it to keep it there but somehow it managed to survive the build.
The character pints are double with this thing because of it.
The newest edition to the Doghouse Line up is our "Work'n mans Chef" ... basically its like the title says...built for guys like myself whose hands get used so hard during the days work that they just don't wanna close anymore once the evening rolls around. We have always added thickness to our handles, but this beauty is like my great granddads "giant number phone" of knife handles.
The blade is a all in one design ... No sense in having 4 different mega handle knives that no body else can hold onto if 1 will do the trick.
Also finished a "little" fillet with Wenge wood handle... Im in love with this one...to bad it was sold before it ever saw the fire for the first time... good news is We are going to build another one and Aggie is going to make a matching wood Saya for the blade...PUMPED!
Here's a little peak at the Garden and Gun entry pics... Still working these out but fun pick regardless... The entry gets 3 pics total so its hard to showcase a years worth of forging in three moments of frozen time.
this one keeps calling me back but I'm just not sure...
Thanks for checking it out!
JP
MP&C
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As always, beautiful work!