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 Yeah, just another couple of Workers... but I thought the matching ironwood handles were worth showing off.   Here's something just a little bit different. My customer requested that I move the grind on this Seneca back toward the guard for more edge length. It came out nice. No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth! I’ve been busy grinding the last of the Worker series orders that were generated by the article in Blade, and I haven’t had time for much else. I’m trying to get knives to all the fine folks who have waited very patiently for their orders. I haven’t put any pictures up lately because I figured people were probably bored with me posting the same model week after week in the update… All my existing orders are now ground out, and most of them heat treated. Soon I can start on some new stuff I’ve been planning… I do have something to show off, though, but be warned it has NOTHING to do with knives. It’s just a bit of self-indulgence on my part. But the video came out so nice (thanks to my son who did the editing and put it to music!) that I thought I’d post it here, just to see if anyone got a kick out of it. Background: When I was younger (back before the earth’s crust had cooled completely) my passion was skateboarding, and my specialty was high jumping and jumping over cars. I promised myself back then that on my 50th birthday, I would celebrate by jumping a car. Of course, when you’re 17 years old you don’t anticipate things like bad knees, bad feet that require 3 operations to fix… and all of a sudden you’re 50th is approaching and you realize you haven’t even stepped on a board for about ten years and probably haven’t jumped anything in over twenty years! So I decided that a car jump wasn’t practical. Still, I wanted to at least partially keep my promise, so I decided to jump a folding card table. It took about three months of training to get my jumping skills back, and I had to take a large dose of ibuprofen an hour before the jump to keep my knee from buckling, but I ended up getting it done. Small potatoes compared to what I used to jump, but not bad for an old guy with bad knees, especially considering I was walking with a cane a few years ago. Yes, I’m insufferably pleased with myself ;) By the way, my son couldn’t resist also putting together a video of the unsuccessful first attempt, that shows me eating the concrete…  The steps from start to finish... (Five different handle materials, obviously. And no, the tip isn't broken off the finished one - just my poor photography skills showing!)  The second one from the bottom, all finished.  Visit my new shop tour page! The link is at the top with the other pages. I hope you'll enjoy seeing my workshop.  How did it get to be April already? No new models, but here are a couple of the Worker series with antique ivory Micarta scales. I love that stuff. No, that's not a stain on the blade - that's my reflection with the camera. Not one of my better picture taking days. I'll try to have some pics of my shop up next week, just for something different. | Archives | | Return Home | What's New | Fixed Blades | Folders | Features and Options | Ordering and Contact Information | Available Knives | Wood Spirits by Uncle Jim | Frequently Asked Questions | Shop Tour | |
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