Recent content by kale1984

I may take you up on that. but if I did I'd have to get you to send that 45/70 with it to put a maple or some other fine specimen of wood handle insert for you.

the knife looks great! I think I might have to look into some courses like did. the thing I definitely struggle with it is doing work by hand, especially carving.

I see, I was thinking gouges. You can see that lots of thought had to go into for it to have turned out as great as it did. I just made a pipe rack a few weeks ago and tried using a bowl router bit in a drill press, (because i don't own any carving chisels yet) which ended disastrously for my...

I love this, awesome work. the grain on the eggman is so striking, i love the knurled egdes. on the Mauna Loa, the rustification is awesome, i love how you even continued onto the stem. reeally great work

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i know this is an older post but i was just curious about how you accomplished the indents for the bowls? by hand? or router?etc... great work, spectacular wood.

thanks guys. it was my first attempt at making a rack at all. i'm pretty happy with it. as for the railroad spikes I've used those for a couple projects already so it just seemed a natural choice for me to use. I've made a couple tampers for espresso machines, and i made some bottle openers out...

thanks fatman! yeah i just had the casing sitting around as well as bits of the maple sitting around. i think next time i go to the range might have to fire off a couple rounds on a .45 so i can make a couple out of those, i think the size would be nicer. do you just use a a casing or do you...

hey here's some pictures of the pipe rack i just finished. The top board is birds eye maple and the bottom some exotic purple heart. with a railroad spike that i machined a thread on and bead blasted then returned the natural finish to. I made a pair, one for myself and the other for my wife's...

Hey guys here's a tamper that i just made myself in the last while. Here it is without any finish: Here it is with finish: [ I used some bird's eye maple I had from another project and a .357 shell from an outing to the range. Turned it on my metal lathe at work.