Sheffield Curly Maple Carving knife

[Thomp]

Well its finely done..

Using rick ferry's make your favorite carving knife Tutorial..

Keeping the blade cool at all times, Using a dremel with a fiber disk , 1x30 and 1x42" belt sander with different grit belts, I took a sheffield straight razor cut it down and attached a curly maple handle, its not my first Cutting grinding and shaping a carving knife,
but it is the first real carving knife iv'e made thats worth really telling about..

I found only a couple questions to ask rick, but they were not anything critical. and found the tutorial quite easy to follow, i put a lot of extra patients and work into this knife because i wanted rick to handle it and evaluate it.

Resulting in, I overworked the blade polishing with my power hone, Which rounded over the cutting edge,
then i burnt out a switch in my 1x30 belt sander, and finishing the knife would be delayed until i got a part from tiawan or wherever it could be found.
so i sent the knife to rick-in-seattle at www.littleshavers.com to have him do some sharpening touch ups, and evaluate it.

it was ground flat on the each side of the blade removing the round over at the cutting edge, flattened on the handle and sanded all over where i had had a real brier rabbit - tar baby fight with some 3 minuet epoxy, and I was
Thinking i probobaly had a failure with the blade cutting edge, being offset the centerline, rick was able to fix it. by sanding off some extra wood and smooth sanded and then coated with 3-5 coats of deft, resulting in a very fine knife,
i sent it out on Thursday and relieved it on following wed.

• my advice:
• keep the blade cold at all times, grind & dip in cold water.
• don't use fast epoxy 5 - 8 minuet epoxy is best, fast working epoxy is fine but one little mishap could cause you to loose a lot if not all the effort you put into the work.
• guard the positioning of the blade until the epoxy is set hard.
• use gloss deft to finish the handle it really set off the depth and sparkle of this curly maple.

Again i thank rick for such a fine tutorial, and sharing his knowledge, know how and for being such a fine person to learn from.

heres some low rez pics of the knife attached. due to attachment restraints on wci, look on my picasa workbench album for bigger photos

[heineda]

Thomp,

That is a very fine looking knife. I like a knife with a stright cutting edge that lines up with the bottom of the handle. Now that you have the whole process mastered, how about making one for me!!!! LOL.

You should be very proud. Excellent job.

Dan Heine

[windsong]

Thomp
That a very fine looking knife that anyone would be proud to own.Now carve something with it and let have a look.
Vic.

[Thomp]

Daniel,
i replied to your question in a Pm.

contact me thomp51la@gmail.com off fourm,
its not fair for me to sell on forum without paying for an advertisement.
now that i let the cat out of the bag.

[Canopener]

Thomp,
You are getting to be quite the knife maker. I liked your last couple and this one is better yet. Are you still carving? You will end up like Rick; all knives no carving, or something like that. Not that, that is a bad thing.
Go for it!
Jim

[Kenny_S]

I agee with the rest, Very nice looking and looks to be one of the better one yopu have made.

[Thomp]

Yep canopener,

i been able to squeeze out some time for carving, just about time i was getting some scene support items looking i slipped and painted them with the red color paint that hurts, nice slash across my right thumb,
thing is i just had took off my thumb guard,
Dang it i hate to get cut its just a nuisance cut but i cant or dont want to stop carving while im in the jazzed up mood with all the ideas flowing, oh well i guess its back to the superglue and some silk to keep it closed till i run out of ideas to carve,

i got to get this frog made before i quit....

His bottom is about the size of a small postage stamp easily set on a quarter,

http://picasaweb.google.com/thomp51L...05819376182098

[Canopener]

Thomp,
Nuisance Cut, huh? Now that is a classic woodcarver term if I ever heard one, plus it seems you were only worried that the carving might get stained.
Man, you make me laugh.
When does it get to be a serious cut? When previously useful body parts are laying in the chips, do not worry, it keeps them preserved until the Doc can sew it back on.
I am right with you though; it seems that you get right in the carving zone and safety flies out the window. Been there, done that, and keep a good supply of bandaids close by.
Nuisance Cut, thats a keeper.
I checked with my wife, she don't think you're funny. Wives have no sense of humor about driving carvers to the ER.
Keep up the good work.
Jim

[Thomp]

Jim,

A Nuisance Cut, is just a split in the hide, something that wont stop bleeding, or is in a place where you normally apply pressure with and it keeps busting open again and again,
usually a little superglue saves about $300.00 from an emergengy room visit, where they scrub out the cut, and close it with a butterfly, and give you ashot for tetnus,
I keep my tetnus shots up.. superglue, Alcohol & butterfly bandages are $5.-10.00 at walmarts
Although i would not advise anybody else to follow my hard headed example,

[Thomp]

Been going through some extensive renovations with the house, refurbished 3 rooms insulation and sheet rocked hall and bathroom, paint and flooring all finely done,

my living room carving area, just had the kibosh put on that, so now i'm out on the front porch now with my mess, ain't allowed to carve in the house when mommas around,

I got totally uprooted & disturbed even a new computer desk so i'm bum-fuzzled and can't find a thing, but was very happy this afternoon when i opened a rubber maid blanket trunk-tub thing and i located my carving tools, all but a few were there,

The Sheffield curly maple straight razor carving knife has been sent to Rick for his approval and to fix a couple bugs i couldn't work out because i melted a 1x30" belt sander 2 pole 1 through sealed on/off switch,
(Any help - information on Chinese - Taiwanese replacement toggle switches would be a god send)

ill let Rick Ferry comment on the mess i had him fix on the knife 'if he would please., '

So Now the knife is back home, i'm just a bit afraid to carve with it, talk about "Spooky" scary sharp!, The knife is a beautiful thing to hold in your hand and work with but i have never had a knife that stays so sharp,

but then too my hands are so calloused and dry the finish is so slick I worry about the handle slipping in my hand and winding up with a grip on the blade,. guess ill have to wrap it with wimp tape till i get use to it. but i was waiting for the glass like finish to harden..before i did anything that could wreck this purty thing..

now that i have time and a little money ahead to get another belt sander, ill be making 5 or so more German steel straight razor carving knives in the real near future,

Wood for handles i have are Honduras mahogany, curly maple, ash, black walnut, teak and peach fruit wood, popular, and sycamore. cypress?
any other suggestions?...