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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=012 I would like to buy this if I can get some one to restore/replace the broken scale. Any one know any one ?

cool old knife. i think the stanhope being damaged will affect the price as well. you can google "stanhope" and get a lot of info about them. i moved your post here so the repair guys will see it.

Thanx, I do not really care about the stanhope. Just would like to get the handle repaired/replaced.

hukk can work pearl. maybe he'll stop by.

I am way behind in my in my backlog. I think for me it's the leather work that gets me slowed down to much. I should farm that out once I learn how not to be a control freak with my knives. Or I need to get a sewing machine, BUT I like using a 60% beeswax and 40% brewers pitch on the thread to do any stitching, it will never rot that way. I think that stuff will gum up a machine. Even though that's my slow point, it gives me a break.

I can do a tutorial with some expensive pearl, I like A+ grade from http://www.knifehandles.com because it's cheaper and has better color than presentation grade in general. They have a price chart for the different sizes also. I can also show how I drill holes in Pearl using a Dremel for those that need pins.

Though I prefer a CA adhesive with the pins. This way the pins aren't merely glued in. A Jewlers saw will cut Pearl, but I have an Inland lapidary band saw coming tommorrow (5-9). I have been buying some nice Picasso marble, dinosaur bone, Lapis, Agates, Jaspers and other stuff. I also have about 3 dozen (guessing) folders with exotic materials. Looks like Madagascar Ocean Jasper is going to be the most expensive.

Between breaks I sit and read and give my 2 cents. I have to get this years deer and elk hunters happy. Some knives are going out with A2, I think those will be the best skinners they ever had. I bought a bunch from Alpha Knife Supply, they had some 3/16 for the Elk hunters.

Yeah, I think I'm my own worst enemy. I can do a tutorial, the material whether rock or pearl doesn't matter, the technique is the same. I can do a knife and have my wife take pictures, kill 2 birds with one stone.

Hukk wrote: I can do a tutorial, the material whether rock or pearl doesn't matter, the technique is the same. I can do a knife and have my wife take pictures, kill 2 birds with one stone.

Lets see a Pearl tutorial please Hukk ! I've heard so many different ways to work with it.

4ever3 wrote:

Hukk wrote: I can do a tutorial, the material whether rock or pearl doesn't matter, the technique is the same. I can do a knife and have my wife take pictures, kill 2 birds with one stone.

Lets see a Pearl tutorial please Hukk ! I've heard so many different ways to work with it.

Give me about a week for the new stuff, and it's 84 degress at 7:30 AM, will be a record setting day today, I've never seen it this hot and muggy at 7:30 here. 84 is usually the high for the day, not the low for the night. We are in for it the next couple days, no AC in the shop. I use a Dremel to drill holes. I'll be shut down until this heat wave passes - Its going to greak records. 84 for the low, just 20-25 mile from the coast as the crow flies. 84 for the low, that's a record right there. Sweating in Santa Rosa early in the morning-Hukk. I think we are likely to have a black out today, my PC is going to be down most of today - this is nuts. Arizona weather

Weird, near 99 now and we have a 10 - 15 mph wind out of the E/NE, it NEVER comes from that direction, usually W/NW off the ocean. Must be a fire, I can hear the Borate Bombers.

we have the wind coming from the north east, and the southwest just now...hitting that mountain and doing a comeback...30-45 mph. thank god no one has started a fire...
hope all is well.

We got a fire over in the Napa Valley, they may have hit it hard and fast. Tall grass, (4 to 6 feet, depending where you are) + wind, 100 temp and 15% humidty - BAD COMBINATION!

Hukk wrote:We got a fire over in the Napa Valley, they may have hit it hard and fast. Tall grass, (4 to 6 feet, depending where you are) + wind, 100 temp and 15% humidty - BAD COMBINATION!

That is a baaaaad combo. We're cool and rainy, should be hot and pretty dry.


I'll be watching for the step by step on the Pearl

OK, give me time to set it up next week when it's cooler. I just checked and 10 minutes ago it was 103.7 F in the shop, and 17% Humidity on the hygrometer. Uh, NO, no shop time today - this is Spring, not Summer!