[Daniel]

in reply to: Grizzly El Grandy Sharpening #52899

Awesome tread Dave, well done !!!

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Your first whitetail? #52492

I think these little critters are too darn fast for my arrows 😆

Actually had a really nice 8 pointer 12 yards in front of me, broadside and …….. Yeap, I dropped that bow arm, lightning speed and the arrow hit way below, got a nice shot on a leaf but that’s that 🙂

I’m still looking for my first deer !!!!!

Patience and practice…..well get-r-done sometimes in the future 🙂

Wishing all of you a great day, that includes you Rick 😛

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Tell Us About Your Username #51317

I met a medicine woman a while back and without even speaking a word, she came to me and called me a Standing Bear. Immediately after doing so she told me about how I had been protecting people all of my life and she was right. Those were the only words she spoke that evening, made me think, but again, she was right because that’s what I am meant to do.

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #50499

Alright Sharpster, don’t you go and blow things out of proportions now !!!!! 😉 The one thing I like to tell people is that in terms of knifemaking, we haven’t seen the tip of thte iceberg yet. By that I mean these new upcoming knifemakers are outstanding, the things they do is amazing, kuddos to anyone out there that starts knifemaking, you are the true testament of what knifemaking should be !!!

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: short bows #50496

Now, who mentioned shrimp????????? I absolutely LOVE shrimps !!!!! That’s right, we are talking about short bows, sorry 😀

I have this awesome 52″ flatbow from Quartermoon longbows and it shoots great, love it in the blind and in tree stands !!

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: yesterday was a beautiful day of bank stalking #50203

Thank you Steve for bringing some warm weather through sharing your story with us, I would like to try bowfishing one day. Here its cold, 10 inches of snow and winter has already been here for a couple of weeks now. It’s squirrel time here and we’ll try to get a few today, or even the odd grouse should we see a couple. Again, thank you for sharing.

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Birders? #49818

For some reason, I really like the blue jay, I remember seing many in my past, makes for good memories.

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Birders? #49357

We have a wide variety of birds here in our part of the country but the bald eagle is our most visible as they love making their nests along the large river systems.

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #49354

Ron, did you know you are an absolutely wonderful, kind and great human being !!!!!

Alright, I’ll post the before picture of the knife with the finished one plus a closeup of the stabilized white ash burl grain pattern.

And the Close up 🙂 Isn’t that a gorgeous knife !!!

There Done 🙂

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #49289

Well, I’m done 🙂 However, the batteries in my digital camera need charging. Bad timing of course although it will give me a bit of time to make a small caribou antler stand for Patrick’s final pictures of his incredible damascus knife, and as I told Patrick numerous times, it is a gorgeous knife.

I also have to say that this was a nice opportunity to give Patrick and all of you a sneak peak into some of the things we do as knifemakers. Also I want to thank Robin and the staff at Tradbow for allowing me to do this through their web site.

Too often today, we do things for other people because we need to and this was something I could do for Patrick because I wanted to, felt good.

Enjoy your knife Patrick ! Final pics soon.

I checked the batteries and they still need a few more minutes to charge 🙂

SB

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #49207

It’s morning here and I started early on doing the final sanding. Since its stabilized wood, I do my final sanding using 400 grit wet/dry sand paper. The reason for this is that I don’t find that once polished, the grain pattern really stands out using finer sand paper.

Stabilized wood: You can get various forms of stabilized woods out there, some stabilization methods completely fill the voids with a fiberglass resin. This makes finishing the wood easier because your buffing compound does not get into every crook and cranny. It does however make the wood that much heavier which is something I don’t prefer. We use the acrylic method where we treat the wood fibers and transform them from a wood to acrylic without filling the voids. The wood is lighter and easier to work with. The only problem with this is the moment you add the tinnyest amount of buffing compound, you now have it everywhere in your handle material.

So to fix this problem, I like to add a drop of thin cyanocrylate on a latex glove and I spread it evenly over the wood scale making sure it completely fills in all the cracks, voids. I let that dry and give the handle a light sanding. Using an air compressor, I clean up the handle of any dust particles and repeat the same process. This method prevents the compound from filling any type of void and the handle shines like its supposed to.

When I get back from the shop, I can post the finished knife……and its nice too 🙂

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #48685

This next step consists of grinding my forward and rear bevels. You have to pay special attention to the front bevel because you can’t put back material you’ve removed so easy does it 🙂

Once you get pretty close to the angles your looking for, I don’t worry about mirroring one side with another because I usually get that done with the final hand sanding.

Once I’m satisfied with the overall shapes, I round the top area of the wooden handle, giving its user a comfortable feeling when the knife is in the hand.

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #48679

Once i take the clamps holding the wood scales to the blade, I bring the knife to my 2″ x 72″ Bee V.S. Grinder and I grind the pins down to the wood. I also take the time to make sure both my wooden scales are flattened level with the blade.

Here is the top view of the handle.

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #48645

The joys of replacing handles 🙂 LOL

I wanted to take this time to thank Patrick, the originator of this tread for helping me throughout this process. Without his assistance and recommendations, I believe the tasks performed would have been difficult to do but with his support and help, this small project was worth doing, again thank you Patrick 🙂

SB

Now I’m off grinding !!!!!

[Daniel]

in reply to: Custom Knife Handle: A Work In Progress #48505

Now the fun starts, I am about to start giving the handle its final shape. I go about doing this by following very specific steps so I’ll try and add the right picture for you so you can see why I do things the way I do and how it helps to achieve the final form. The end product ( I hope ) will compliment the damascus blade.

Will post back in a bit 🙂

Cross your fingers Patrick 🙂 LOL

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