Work in progress March 22nd-completed
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Work in progress March 22nd-completed
What do you folks think of these ?
Let's play guess the woods...
Re: Work in progress March 22nd
The first 3 in the picture should be really interesting. Can't wait to see more progress.
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Agreed. If life goes according to plan, they will be finished tonight. Maybe even posted as for sale.
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd
Thank you. If all goes according to plan it they should be done tonight.
Re: Work in progress March 22nd
These look nice as usual! Are these for Mark or etsy?
Guessing:
Looks like oak and maple laminates on the top few, did you laminate them yourself?
Looks like African blackwood ferrules and end caps with maple or black walnut spacers on a lot of these?
The bottom three look like osage orange, purpleheart, and marblewood to me.
Guessing:
Looks like oak and maple laminates on the top few, did you laminate them yourself?
Looks like African blackwood ferrules and end caps with maple or black walnut spacers on a lot of these?
The bottom three look like osage orange, purpleheart, and marblewood to me.
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd
i should get you to make handles for my knives sometime. would be an awesome collaboration! do you make sayas to match at all?
Dakota J. Willison
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd
Thanks for the kind words. This batch of handles has no home yet... Etsy, this forum, ect...milkbaby wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:29 pm These look nice as usual! Are these for Mark or etsy?
Guessing:
Looks like oak and maple laminates on the top few, did you laminate them yourself?
Looks like African blackwood ferrules and end caps with maple or black walnut spacers on a lot of these?
The bottom three look like osage orange, purpleheart, and marblewood to me.
I will provide details on the handles soon, you are pretty close...
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd
Definitely interested in a collaboration, let me know what you are thinking.Willison_Knives wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:41 pm i should get you to make handles for my knives sometime. would be an awesome collaboration! do you make sayas to match at all?
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
These are done! There are some minor flaws in the laminated series, so I am debating if they will go up for sale. I really like them and am looking forward to repeating those handles, I think they are ready for production mode.
The Purpleheart, Olivewood and Osage Orange (Argentine) pass my QC and will be for sale.
More pict to come when it is not 1230 am and I have been going since 7 am...
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
OK, I have overcome a few technical problems, my problem not yours.
Here are a couple pictures of each handle completed. The purpleheart, osage orange and olivewood handles are for sale on my Esty store. The laminated wood handles were not perfect, If anyone is interested in them please contact me for the next production run of for details of the "seconds".
Enjoy the photos.
E Indian Rosewood / Cherry / Maple - Laminated
African Blackwood / Walnut / Cherry - Twisted Laminated
African Blackwood / Flaming Birch / Purpleheart
African Blackwood / Flaming Birch / Osage Orange (Arg)
Bolivian Rosewood / Walnut / Olivewood
Here are a couple pictures of each handle completed. The purpleheart, osage orange and olivewood handles are for sale on my Esty store. The laminated wood handles were not perfect, If anyone is interested in them please contact me for the next production run of for details of the "seconds".
Enjoy the photos.
E Indian Rosewood / Cherry / Maple - Laminated
African Blackwood / Walnut / Cherry - Twisted Laminated
African Blackwood / Flaming Birch / Purpleheart
African Blackwood / Flaming Birch / Osage Orange (Arg)
Bolivian Rosewood / Walnut / Olivewood
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
:O damn those are awesome!
Dakota J. Willison
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
Nice work, Ben!
This whole handle making thing seems to have escalated quickly, LOL!
This whole handle making thing seems to have escalated quickly, LOL!
Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
Looks good. I really like the hard fat grain of olivewood.
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
Yes it has! It started when @CKReef reached out to me on a BBQ forum we are on together and asked me to make him one. When I posted the "practice handle" and I think you suggested opening the Esty store (done), ask Mark for a subforum(done), Facebook page (need to convert form food blog content to woodworking). Now Mark has started to put the first (of many hopefully) CKTG order on some Konos. Boy they sold fast, but they were Konos.
Now I am working on stocking the Etsy store. A blade/handle trade with Williston knives, and CKreef and I are collaborating on some projects that will require stabilized wood.
To some extent I prefer the woodworking to sleep...
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Re: Work in progress March 22nd-completed
Yes. We have to get you some of that to stabilize! I am almost out, I have enough for a ferrule or two....