It must sound weird when you're cutting stock and you hit the section where the tooth count is different.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
good balance point, should feel lighter than it really isby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
looking good!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The lesson I learned the last time I was beating on hot metal was a nice demonstration of the physics property called "elastic rebound". You too can demonstrate this by leaning down just a little bit too far when hammering cold steel against an anvil (Gary probably knows where I'm going with this). When the piece you're working on is red-hot, the hammer deforms it quite nicely against the anvby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
He's quite welcome, I'm always glad to see a young man learning the ins and outs of doing quality work and thought it should be recognized.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The Germans build good stuff, but boy can it be expensive! There's a guy who does fancy cabinet work up here who runs a couple of Italian made joiner/shaper/multi-tools. They can saw, or rabbet, or dado, or carve out whatever profile he wants given the right bits and adjustment. He ended up buying two from the same company so he can leave one set up for long-term projects and use the other for alby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Nice! Too bad all that fancy millwork is hidden forever beneath the scales.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
my efforts always pretty much look like chicken scratching as interpreted by the lesser-talented kindergartners no matter what pen I useby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I'll bet when you buck up logs for the wood stove, they're all exactly the same length even though you don't measure.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Not a Harbor Fright item then...check. There's a whole world of tools out there that I keep finding, stuff I've never even heard of. I guess nobody ever does really know it all.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
dykem and a pointed scraper?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
seems a shame to cover up all that precision milling work in the handle area, maybe you could some translucent resin or a transparent polycarbonate scale to show it offby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
My sons middle school teacher does some black smithing and has started on knife making, he made a propane forge out of a 12" diameter section of iron pipe, cast a refractory liner inside. The cavity isn't quite concentric or symmetrical, but it hasn't burned through and he's been using it for about ten years now, the whole thing is on a welded angle-iron stand and industrial locking castors so heby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Got a question Gary, in the photo of the tools there's one that looks like an unfinished fixed-blade knife but appears to have serrations like a file. Is that some sort of specialty file I've never seen or something else?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hey Kurt, Ulus are one of the more useful kitchen tools regardless of who you are, they make excellent pizza cutters amongst numerous other uses. I wish I had one with decent ergonomics instead of the el-cheapo model I've got now. When you look at the old photos of Upik and Inuit using ulus, you never see them made like the ones they sell these days. Back then they had a couple of basic patteby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I've seen polycrystaline diamond lathe tooling for sale, but I've never seen a single crystal cutter "in the flesh". I did a quick search for "single crystal diamond turning" and found some interesting youtube videos, the surface finish they leave is literally mirror smooth. Seems that single crystal diamond tools are mostly used for making optically precise molds and custom mirrors and such, whby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
If the magnetic field of the earth was strong enough to warp a steel spearpoint, it'd be strong enough to pull the iron molecules right out of our blood hemoglobin. The guy was shining you on for sure.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So...ALL the veneer work is inletted so it's flush with the basic hull?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It is a beautiful piece of work, wish I had the money.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
More of that magic engraving pencil...from what we've seen before that pencil does some awesome work.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Looks like a real handful of a knife, got some real heft to it. Glad it found a home.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So basically you're really, REALLY lucky your cat didn't knock those two jars off the shelf while you were sleeping. Yikes...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It's super frustrating KNOWING that you have a part or tool, but not being able to find or reach it. Story of my life currently.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Stellite is pretty hard stuff, how difficult is it to machine off? Do you have to use diamond tools?by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Impressive all the way around, the race, the racers, and the boat you made. Nice work!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So, I guess it'd be "old collectors of older airguns" then.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I shoulda guessed...hey, while we're at it, why not gold plated? Too much? Nah...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
You are NOT gonna see another one that looks like this on the shelf at your neighborhood Wallymartworld, or the local knife shop, or at the craft fair, or...anywhere else. Definitely unique! Nice work as always, Gary.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Good tips, I'll have to see if I can get the smaller bags locally.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hadn't even thought about that Gary, but the opening shot showed quite a few bags stacked up. I've got a teeny little electric mixer from Home Despot and keeping it fed with 80 lb bags of quickcrete gets old in a hurry even though it mixes slow as molasses Keeping a contraption like his fed probably requires a couple of guys in the background mixing all the time. It might be more accurate to callby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum