Japanese blade smith

Home made knife sharpening grinder amazing

      

BSP Cut off Valves

I went and got some cut off valves, I learnt that they are specialized and you just got to just any hard ware shop around here to get them but any way. They are what is referred to as BSP cut off valves, the bolt and thread parts half screwed in are called  "BSP regulators", used for gas lines. I got yay

Earrings

Working on a pair of earring for a wedding this weekend, making use of my little bits of engraving practise
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Barrel knives

                                
                               
                                

                                
 Barrels knives Old interesting style of knife

Should be finishing up with my knife tomorrow, and unexpected breakage has taken place. One of the zebrano bolsters piece had to be broken to remove the Pivot rivet

Doing some file work on the spine , thought it would be a nice idea. First time making a slip joint folder, it's  making crabby

Pendant and earring set

Amethyst and diamonds set in 9ct white gold.
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Hardening and tempering

Hardening and tempering my blade and spring, took me four tries up to this point might have to do the blade again. I'm learning ey

Knife scales

Roughly shaping the iron wood scales of my knife, really liking this grain. its like unwrapping a present as I shape it

Knife liner

 

I have the blade and spring ready for hardening and tempering just need to cut out liners
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Clay/sand casting

This is the Casting flask, the clay/sand would go into.
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Setting

Please excuse the fuzzy picture. This is my first ring that I set at work. Looking forward to more practice
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Using Rhino to workout Mechanism

I finally came to realisation, that I could use rhino CAD program to design and workout the mechanics of the Slip joint knife
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Knife blade jig

This is a little gadget I saw on the internet. Used for holding your knife blade while you're sanding it on the bow sander. Its prevents you from burning your fingers. It has a magnet counter sunk in it to hold the blade, I also used broken jeweLlery drill bits to nail in to hold blade from spinning around while sanding
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Gas Forge

I soon discovered that, the size of the forge was too big for the flame. It wasn't heating the steel to red hot as is needed. So I made it smaller. I'll put up another picture later
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Making a Gas forge

This is a little gas forge I'm busy making. This is used to heat steel so that it can be forged
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