Modifying A Knife Blade

[Arthur C.]

Nice ornaments. Softball carving reminds me of the primitive pottery face jugs of the southeast U.S.

[Arthur C.]

Way to go, Joe, nicely done and certainly unique! I'm sure you friend will get much pleasure from them.

[Arthur C.]

HA! Steve, the expression on that little guy is priceless! Good job all 'round on this one.

[Arthur C.]

Beautiful work, as we've come to expect of you, Richard! The facial expressions are so well done...that's an area where many fail. Kudos to your wife for an excellent, subtle paint job.

What a fitting tribute; the commissioning authorities are to be commended for the thought, as well as...

[Arthur C.]

Thanks, fellas!

[Arthur C.]

I was just thinking...there has to be a funny story behind that salsa turtle!...

[Arthur C.]

My "work area" is actually several: I carve at a dedicated desk inside, do my drilling and bandsawing/scrollsawing in an outside workshop,and have an outside workbench where I do painting and heavy-duty stuff.

[Arthur C.]

Pro quality, Dave!...

[Arthur C.]

I want to shorten a Warren blade that I hafted some time ago to about 1-1.5". I really like the blade, but it's too long for me to use as a small detail knife. Will a Dremel cutoff wheel work to rough cut this steel?

[Arthur C.]

Dave, I thought you'd like it! That's the best thing about the Forum, we share information freely, and "scratch each others' backs."

By the way, darn nice carving job there.

[Arthur C.]

Nice execution, Claude, your customer should be very pleased!

[Arthur C.]

Well done! Thank you for the process pictures, always a a big plus.

[Arthur C.]

Nice crisp carving, Wayne! Good paint job, too.

[Arthur C.]

Excellent carving, superb finish!

[Arthur C.]

For a good, durable, simple one step finish, I recommend you consider amber shellac. Apply a coat, sand after dry, apply one or more additional coats, final finish rub with crumpled brown paper bag.

Nice little bear!

[Arthur C.]

Cut Up, it really can get out of hand quickly, and you're stuck doing production line carving instead of moving on to new projects.

[Arthur C.]

I remember as a kid making swords from yardsticks...great fun!

[Arthur C.]

Joe. you did a great job on that Santa! You're right, curls are hard to do well, but you got it. Nice!

[Arthur C.]

Nice grouping, Randy! Each Santa has it's own personality.

[Arthur C.]

Good work, a nice relief piece. Did you use a router for the bosting?