All About Pocket Knives

Very nice, Great idea making both variable speed for less than 1 machine. I like thrifty, What in the heck are you making with all of that stuff?

reddirtknives wrote:Very nice, Great idea making both variable speed for less than 1 machine. I like thrifty, What in the heck are you making with all of that stuff?

There is hardly a day goes by that I don't spend some time in my shop. Repairing, restoring anything that needs fixing but mostly playing with, working on or making knives. Here are some pics of some letter openers I made. I always clamp duplicate parts together for profiling as shown. I try to make some of these letter openers around Christmas time each year. They make good gifts. Handles are ivory, bark ivory, mastodon ivory, stag and stabilized maple. Heat treated 410 Stainless Steel. I do my own heat treating. Leather work too.

I am not sure of the time ratio but for every hour I spend making a mess out of my shop I spend some time trying to clean it up.

Wayne

I see them now lol WOW very nice letter openers. I would definitely be calling them custom daggers...

My little wood shop.

ummm…. Can I move in? Into your little wood shop… dang,I wouldn't show my situation to anyone… especially now lol

Geez Wayne, you been holding out on us. Great looking equipment, and beautiful work!

I LIKE HOW "WISHY" HAS TA HAVE SIGNS UP....TO TELL HIM WHAT "NOT" TO DO...HAHAHAHAHAH

POOR "OLE"..........
NOT EVEN ALLOWED IN SOME DOORS..................

junebug wrote:
I LIKE HOW "WISHY" HAS TA HAVE SIGNS UP....TO TELL HIM WHAT "NOT" TO DO...HAHAHAHAHAH

POOR "OLE"..........
NOT EVEN ALLOWED IN SOME DOORS..................

I think I would have to go in there just cuz. Curiosity killed the cat but I would risk it.

wishful wrote:My little wood shop.

If that's little I don't want to see big. Very nice set up!

I though my shop was big when I built 10 years ago. It's getting smaller all the time. I think you need more equipment and clutter.

>>>>>>> Buggie

My experience when it comes to woodshops with lots of open space is that there is some serious work being put out… Usually also means the guys are out on an install and the mess is cleaned up, shop is ready to start mill work for the next house or store,bar etc… One question… Where's all of the lumber?

Here's some of the lumber RD.

wishful wrote:Here's some of the lumber RD.

Very nice. What do you make out of all that wood? Do you mill it too? Any pictures?

btrwtr, I cut the logs on my property and have them sawed by a guy with a portable mill. I use the lumber for various projects, cabinets, etc.

I seem to learn something new everyday about you fellas

Wishful,
that's a nice stack of cared for lumber. It must be very gratifying to create from your own fallen trees. Good for you.
The one picture shows what must have been a productive milking shed at one time.

Thank you FRJ. The lumber storage sheds are connected to the shop. You are correct; 50 years ago the sheds were part of our cow stables.

wishful, Very nice indeed. Great craft!

Thank you btrwtr.

Here's some old pics of my shop. I have since shoe horned in a few more tool boxes, a tig machine, a bandsaw, and a parts washer.

Wait, I think I see some empty space on the wall up high!

Kinda looks like my shop....except yours is more organized.

glennbad wrote:Wait, I think I see some empty space on the wall up high!

I know Glenn, how does he rate with blank wall space?

My wife gave me a nice Oregon Ducks football calendar and I don't have enough blank wall space in my shop to hang it!

I see you guy's shops I feel I died and gone to heaven. I got a workbench vice and grinder with buffer wheel. Bought a new stool this mornig bygollie! Need more files. Lol

New pin stock organizing system. got tired of the pvc pipes getting shifted around, filling with dust, short pieces of pin would disappear into them never to be seen again, materials getting mixed up. This should alleviate all those problems. One box for each material, one box for tubes and one box for big stock for fixed blades. I still need to make labels for each tray, theory is when I can clearly read the label in the bottom of the tray it's time to order more. As you can see I'm low on a lot of stuff, my jantz order is inbound

I had that on my mind also, Kaleb. Currently, I use those little paper bags that the pin stock comes in, and I write the sizes on them. It's not a good system, though. I don't have an organizer big enough, so I will have to go out and get ones like yours. Nice