Started shaping the scales on my new knife.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Phone is not cooperating tonight. Is a damascus hunting style knife. I didn't make the steel with some sweet Cherry burl scales.
Don't forget to wrap the blade and tape it....don't need to hear about any mishaps over there...
Looks good so far...
Working on it slowly. This is the display I'm doing for the granddaughter. The one finished dragon does not go on this piece. Will be doing the one I'm working on in pics and the other column will have a Griffin or at least that's the plan. The photo copy pic Barry did for me will be on the base. This will have too wands by the way just couldn't hold them both up at the same time and take a pic lol
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For those that haven't seen it before. This is the piece I made for my son that I stolid the dragon from just to give ya a idea of what I'm going for.
Took a bath in cosmoline...
I decided to get the big ash board I had bought last year out of the pile and cut it down to size. Then I resawed the pieces on my 14" HF bandsaw with custom heavy duty fence. The boards are ~ 23" long. 5 1/2" wide and once resawn ended up at about 9/16-5/8" thick. They will then be run through the thickness planer to 3/8". From there I'll cut them into 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch flitches. Then the fun begins. Clothespins! There are 16 steps to go from rough board to finished product. But when finished there is no comparison to the pins being sold in the stores. There are just a hand full (5 or 6) artisans across the country that make these that I am aware of. Fella by the name of Kimball studied several different original patents from way back and designed these from the best features of each. I think the last American clothespin manufacturer closed their doors in the 90s because they could not compete with the cheap pins from overseas. We know how that goes. You get what you pay for. These pins are like your grandmother used to use. They are tumbled in a an old dryer without heat for about 3-4 hours along with a small strip of clothe that has been impregnated with linseed oil. The final step is to sort the rejects from the keepers and assemble the halves into ready to use pins.
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If you got all that outta one board, it must've been a big ash board!! 
Geez Rocky, what scares me is if that board was a big as we thought, that hand holding the clothes pin must be huge....If you got all that outta one board, it must've been a big ash board!!
Not to speak ill of your custom rip fence Clay, but have you seen the Magfence?
http://www.carterproducts.com/band-saw-products/band-saw-magfence
Pappy had one when I stopped to visit him, should you need references. But they really work nice! Turn of a knob and they're locked down tight.
http://www.carterproducts.com/band-saw-products/band-saw-magfence
Pappy had one when I stopped to visit him, should you need references. But they really work nice! Turn of a knob and they're locked down tight.
Been working on the pot calls, had little time yesterday and this morning so got slates in on 47 calls and the strikers ready to turn
If you got all that outta one board, it must've been a big ash board!!
Rocky, I started with an 8/4 piece of Ash that was 21 inches wide x 45 inches long. I cut it into two pieces about 23 inches long. Then planed them smooth and then resawed them to 9/16 - 5/8 thick. It was a pretty good size piece of wood but if and when I ever get some of these other logs milled, I'll have some much larger than that.
Yes, that hand is pretty large. Ain't no little boy hand for sure. But then again, ain't no little boy attached to it either. 6'5" 295 pounds. Gotta have big hands to feed this body. LOL!
The clothes pin pictured is one I made last year. I just got started on this year's batch.
Poor folks got poor ways Rocky. LOL. I'd like to upgrade. I'll check out the one you speak of. I also want to put a riser block in the saw too. But... like all things, they must wait until after the wedding. Then we shall see what we shall see.
Something to put on your wish list... I understand enough about saw tables and welding clamps to know that things are simply in the way under there at times!! That problem is eliminated with the magfence. Figured I'd give you the link, up to you to figure out how to work it into the budget.
Marc, in a perfect world I would 432 complete pins out of just a little over 13 bd ft which is about what that board amounted too. More likely as not, I'll be lucky to get 400 complete pins just because some will not cut the muster when I start looking for defects in the final product before assembling them.
So far this year all I have done is what you see in the first couple pics. That pin is from last year. I have another 13-15 bd ft of ash to use when I get this bunch done.
That is handy!! Ceertainly going to be looking into this. Do you use one?
No my Grizzly Bandsaw came with a nice fence. I held out for the Grizz for exactly that reason. I have certainly thought about the magnetic finger boards though, those would be really really handy at times, and they could be used on both the table saw and bandsaw.
Pappy had the rip fence when I stopped and visited him, and I was really impressed with it. You turn the knobs and it's STUCK! You might move it, but you'd have to try really hard. I am going to own one, just because it's so handy. I just haven't had the cash to buy the 4 - 5 of them I want! To save freight... Going to have to break down and buy them one at a time!
Pappy had the rip fence when I stopped and visited him, and I was really impressed with it. You turn the knobs and it's STUCK! You might move it, but you'd have to try really hard. I am going to own one, just because it's so handy. I just haven't had the cash to buy the 4 - 5 of them I want! To save freight... Going to have to break down and buy them one at a time!
Wow, those fences look nice but run $100 more than my nickers can carry. Great link Rocky, thanks again on that photo magic on the other thread too. I clamp a wood board on my bandsaw. The real fence for it is on the lower cross bracket of the base, but the blade runs so out of square it is just another decoration in my slightly over crowded shop.