[mt877]

Wow! That's really nice!

Thanks. Yeah, you can buy railroad spike knives, but it's pretty cool being able to hand hammer a sizzling hot railroad spike into a knife. Granted I didn't do everything from start to finish, but just the fact that you get to be part of the process is very gratifying.

 

[bifcake]

Thanks. Yeah, you can buy railroad spike knives, but it's pretty cool being able to hand hammer a sizzling hot railroad spike into a knife. Granted I didn't do everything from start to finish, but just the fact that you get to be part of the process is very gratifying.

I'm all thumbs when it comes to stuff like that, so I am duly impressed by anyone who can hit a nail without missing the head.

 

[FullCircle]

Growing up, we had afamily tradition, basically the men in our family would trade knives on Christmas. Over time, we started to build knives and then give them to family members.

These knives were built from some of the remnant materials for our Prestige IEM builds.

 

[KcMsterpce]

Growing up, we had afamily tradition, basically the men in our family would trade knives on Christmas. Over time, we started to build knives and then give them to family members.

These knives were built from some of the remnant materials for our Prestige IEM builds.

Wow, those are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

 

[FullCircle]

Wow, those are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

A couple more

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Handsome! I sense a connection to the beautiful designs on your IEMs and these amazing knives

 

[FullCircle]

Handsome! I sense a connection to the beautiful designs on your IEMs and these amazing knives

Thanks

That was the hope

 

[smallcaps]

Those are amazing... love a good fixed blade and those are all awesome. Thanks for sharing!

 

[FullCircle]

 

[bifcake]

That's gorgeous! Who made it?

 

[FullCircle]

That's gorgeous! Who made it?

The blade was from a company in Japan, the scale work was done by me.

 

[bifcake]

Beautiful!!

 

[Trihexagonal]

You've got skill, FullCircle. Very nice knives.

I worked at an iron foundry as a laborer. We poured approx. 80 tonne of molten iron a day at 2300 F to make sand castings.

Thee were "gates" to let the air out as you poured the iron. If they missed the hole it sent a shower of sparks that was the molten iron and everybody had little holes in their shirts from it hitting us. We'd take off running but nobody ever got burned bad.

After sitting all day to cool they would go to "shakeout". A long vibrating stainless steel trough that would shake off the sand as it shook the castings uphill toward us.

The gates didn't fall off by themselves. We stood there all night with a 16lb sledgehammer and knocked them off. There was a technique to it and if you didn't het it right you'd be lucky to get it off before it fell into the refuse bin before you could life or hoist it off. Then you had to climb down and get it, and that stopped work so nobody iked that.

We had a girl on the crew who worked every bit as hard as we did, harder than one guy, but we wouldn't let her do that job because it was so hard. She just didn't put on muscle like we did. And if you could stand there and do it all night you got respect. When we weren't doing that we were scooping sand all night long. It made a man out of me.

I worked as a diecaster, too, and shot magnesium, zinc and mostly aluminum. Mag fires are notorious for burning factories down.

I've done lead sandcastings but nothing as nice as what you did by hand. Some pretty awesome 1/4 pound lead knucks though.

 

[FullCircle]

You've got skill, FullCircle. Very nice knives.

I worked at an iron foundry as a laborer. We poured approx. 80 tonne of molten iron a day at 2300 F to make sand castings.

Thee were "gates" to let the air out as you poured the iron. If they missed the hole it sent a shower of sparks that was the molten iron and everybody had little holes in their shirts from it hitting us. We'd take off running but nobody ever got burned bad.

After sitting all day to cool they would go to "shakeout". A long vibrating stainless steel trough that would shake off the sand as it shook the castings uphill toward us.

The gates didn't fall off by themselves. We stood there all night with a 16lb sledgehammer and knocked them off. There was a technique to it and if you didn't het it right you'd be lucky to get it off before it fell into the refuse bin before you could life or hoist it off. Then you had to climb down and get it, and that stopped work so nobody iked that.

We had a girl on the crew who worked every bit as hard as we did, harder than one guy, but we wouldn't let her do that job because it was so hard. She just didn't put on muscle like we did. And if you could stand there and do it all night you got respect. When we weren't doing that we were scooping sand all night long. It made a man out of me.

I worked as a diecaster, too, and shot magnesium, zinc and mostly aluminum. Mag fires are notorious for burning factories down.

I've done lead sandcastings but nothing as nice as what you did by hand. Some pretty awesome 1/4 pound lead knucks though.

Thanks, but to be 100% legitimate, we sourced the blades from Japan so the heavy lifting has been done for the most part.

 

[Trihexagonal]

I knew you got at least one from Japan but those handles are exotic and fitted well.

I have a homemade knife I bought at some folklife festival. It has Mexico and cactus welded on the extrenely sharp blade with a guard on the handle. It's bad news, you hold it blade down and fist fight. The handle has a cutaway for some kind of material but it's not nearly as nice a job as yours. I'll find it later.

My Dad was Ranger in the Korean Conflict, worked behind enemy lines and the Recipient of the Silver Star, This is the EGW knife he used on the job. I have no idea what EGW means:

Did I ever mention I liked knives?