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Ya gotta love a good dawg. Can't beat 'em.

I don't grind many, I don't use jigs, so I'm not in practice. It takes me 2-3 hours to do one. With jigs, it would take about 45 minutes to one hour. Bill The style and length would play a part in the time too. Would you agree with that Bill? I only know fixed blade knife making so I'm not speaking...

Teach 'em how to knife fight! And to attack at the first hint of danger with or without the knife as the situation warrents! F*ckin right Mick. I have twin 17 yr old daughters, an they have some AWESOME natural firepower in the "kicking punching scrapping" department. God help the groper that pisse...

OMAGOD Ijust fell in love with another knife!

Love the knife; I can only hope to do half as well. Did you consider tapering the tang, ala South African style? That's a particular skill I have not yet obtained :cry: , Though I would not have done that with this knife as it would have shifted the balance too far forward. The balance point is alm...

Teach 'em how to knife fight! And to attack at the first hint of danger with or without the knife as the situation warrents!

Thought I might just post some better pics of that Bowie. Gives a better idea of the knife now that it's finished. http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s103/Mick_066/IMGP3437.jpg http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s103/Mick_066/IMGP3434.jpg http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s103/Mick_066/IMGP3426.jpg

Hell, let's get a keg. Maybe we can figure out how to tap that.... Hard to tell what he was talking about on that post. l.o.l. yup ,think we could figure out how to tap it , and most likely drain it. :wink: I'll be in that, but only if it's a keg of MGD, That was the only kind of American beer I co...

I've also seen that Denim Micarta and thought it looked quite good. I was going to make some myself and have been keeping my old, worn out jeans to do just that. I reckon Denim would look good on a hunting or Bowie style (Love the Bowie style). You have re-inspired me to do something like that too.

ROFL Don't forget to let the sediment settle before trying to drink from it...

Heat treating can be done by just making a forge oven out of fire brick or Cinder? blocks (Not sure what the americans call Besser block bricks) PROPER term is "cylinder block" but at least 99% call it a cinder block :wink: American dictionaries list it as "cinder block" so, another case of evoluti...

Well now I know what people mean when they display shock at Australians? (Tourists really) eating Kangaroo and Emu Meat. I must admit to being a little shocked that people would actually eat a Buffalo, they being such beautiful creatures to me, but then I got to thinking that I sure would like to tr...

Mate get yaself an extra large suitcase to stuff me in! I wanna come too!

Your blade grinds will depend on just where you stroke the knife across the belt (assuming your using the power tools in preferance to files). Holding the knife on the platen at your prefered angle will give you one of the Vee style grinds. Using the curve of the forward wheel with a little practice...

A few assorted files and jewellers files for those things that need them, such as file working the spine etc. I still do most of my knives using just the basics. Files, hacksaw, vice, sandpaper of assorted grades and elbow grease will make a beautiful knife.