A Fresh Start

After all the bugs have left my system and I don’t feel sick any more, it was high time to get my butt out to the shop.  The first thing I did was lay out almost 20 blades on flat stock and cut a bunch of these out after a day long Entrepenurial class sponsored by the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, of which I am a new member. 

When I was getting ready for bed Friday night, I happened to notice that it seemed kinda bright out at 11:30p.m.  Looking out the window there was some white stuff all over.  

This is what I woke up to early Saturday morning.  It looked so pure and clean.  The snow was on every thing…I mean every fence line, branch and surface it could reach.  Lucky for us it only lasted till 10:30a.m.  We've had a pretty warm winter and this was not expected.

This is what I ended up with after cutting, profiling and forging the blades to shape.  Saturday was a very productive day but there is still a lot to do with these.

On Sunday, I ground all of the blades that had been forged.  Once the initial grinding was completed, I decided it was as good a time as any to heat treat and temper this set of blades.

I hope to grind and heat treat the other blades as soon as I can.

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Here’s a few that I just finished.  The top two are hunters.  One has a carved brown  micarta handles while the other has curly maple handles.  The bottom pic shows a Guthook with carved brown micarta handles ready to ship out.

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This year we are trimming down our show schedule.  So far we are pretty sure of the shows that we want to do and will be at for 2015.  These are:

Elk Valley Crafters Assoc.                    March 14

Blooming Arts Festival                         March 20-21

Ames Plantation                                      October 10

Elk Valley Crafters Assoc.                    November 7 or 14?

The Farm School                                      December 5?

Not sure of some of the dates listed.  There may be a show or two stuck in there somewhere but they have to be tried and true.  Those HOT weather shows have not worked for us in the past. 

Thanks to all of you for actually reading this blog of mine.  You are the reason I do this.