The Official 2007 TradGang Knife Swap **Time is UP!!**

[vermonster13]

Jeremy this whole thread is a tease to us without talent. Keep it up! lol

[4runr]

That's a beauty!!

[jgbennett6]

hey thanks for teh compliments. David, i honestly feel I get better with every knife... Jeremy this was my first time using Tulipwood...it smells darn good when sanding.

[Jeremy]

That's good to hear!  Frank (sticshooter) just sent me some tulipwood (Thanks Frank!) and I was trying to figure out what to put it on.

[hickstick]

Man...see what happens when you duck out on the board for a while....man you guys making some great knives....

not sure if tis too late to get in on a swap...and not sure if I'll have any of these finished up.....

some that I been working on (couple utilities, skinners and a seax)....
 

PS...the bottom little caper is cable damascus...can't wait to etch it  

[MYSTIKBOW]

Hickstick, Your not too late at all. Nice lookin blades there. The swap isn't gonna start untill
July. I gotta get crackin too. I haven't done anything else since I put together thoses two stone knives posted early on. I still have a steel blade or two to make. BTW, what is cable damascus?

[hickstick]

thanks john...

Cable damascus is steel cable (wire rope) thats been forge-welded together to make one solid (hopefully) chunk of steel that you then forge out into something.  

it comes up with a neat snake skin type pattern to it...like this one a friend made...  

oops...edited to remove the pic...was a little too wide....  made it a like so I don't have to resize it  cable damascus knife

[W.Tim]

Hickstick, that cable damascus knife pic, was awesome.........wow      

[sticshooter]

WOW! NOW THATS A GREAT KNIFE.<><

[LC]

Well since it's not too late I'd like to jump in here also on the knife swap. All these knife threads awhile back  reknidled the bug in me for along time to make knifes so I bugged the heck out of a local muzzleloader knife maker in to teaching me. I ain't the caliper of him but I'm really happy with my progress. Count me in!

[tippit]

Marc,  Nice to see you back here with your blades.  Your forge-a-long tutorial on blade blade making was a classic...Doc

[MYSTIKBOW]

OOH I like That! Thats a great looking pattern Marc. Man theres gonna be a ton of nice knives swaping hand come July.

 JOHN

[hickstick]

thanks Jeff.  The blade in the link was done by a friend some of you may recall from the old LW days back before this site was born....his name is Randy Skidmore.  Great bladesmith and great bowyer too.

been away from the forge (and from this site too)...torn my rotator cuff and labrum (cartilidge that makes the shoulder socket) playing ice hockey....trying to get it to mend without surgery...but unsure....

so I'm focusing on finishing these few (in the first pic) up and letting my shoulder rest for a while.  picked up a bunch of 01 (oil hardening tool steel...great for knives) from a guy who bought the kit and kaboodle of a machine shop going outta business...lots of it smaller stuff so I'm gonna try my hand at some folders too...that should keep me from swingin a hammer for a while....heres a pic that might make some of you knife makers out there drool...all bought for a buck a pound  

 

and another:
 

[sticshooter]

I never would have thought that I would get all giddy over a pic of just plain old steel.LOL. Prayers for your shoulder.<><

[tippit]

Aw Heck, it's just some scrap iron.  We gotta free dump here in Carlisle if that stuff is getting in your way      

My forge gets a little lonely.  We should done a dueling forge marathon some time...Doc

[hickstick]

will do jeff....nothing like flingin a few arrows waiting for the steel to heat too  

thanks sticshooter (for the prayers).  got a cortizone injection a little over a week ago and its feeling much better (until it subluxes again (slight dislocation)...but the pain only lasts for a few seconds.....more of a hassle than anything right now...)

hey...if any beginners want to try there hand a forging a knife for the swap...shoot me a pm...as you can see, I got plenty of 01 to spare....  

[tippit]

I'll take about 25# of 01...Ahhhh it's for my next door neighbor who wants to learn forging     Doc

[Claypipe]

Just started making a handle for a Russell Green River blade today.  Should be done in a couple days.  Will post some pics when I get it finished.  Have also started a blade from a file.  It will be my first one and I hope I can figure out the correct heat treating process so that it will be worth something when finished.  If it turns out I will have 2 and possibly 3 for the swap.  Have a good day and keep 'em in the middle, TMG.

[Jeremy]

Sounds great TMG!  Can't wait for the pics.

I still can't get over that pile of steel....

[Coon007]

Hey all

I also make my own knives where do I sign up I'll post a picture of them later.