Shop updates and pics

Vanax kitchen knife.
Got it worked on last night.

Will finish up the handles today.
8.5 inch blade
2.2 inches tall overall.
Toxic green G10 liners under
BWP Green Glow liners.
Rubberized Carbon Fiber from AJ Composites.

So far the handle feels amazing and it's not even done yet!!!

 

Finished the handles!!!
Gonna get her sharpened up and etched.

After that 2 more blanks need to be finish ground today. And hope to finish gluing handles today too.

1 in Nitro-V.
1 in Vanax.

 

Thank you!!
I gave her a quick test drive earlier today.
Its amazing.

 

Allllllight kid's today is friday!
And that means Sharpening and SHIPPING

4 knives going to clients today.
And a box of ZFINIT with 26C3 headed to Peter's today.

1 knife in Zwear needs sharpening before shipping, and 1 in Vanax.

 

Last batch of knives in vanax went out yesterday.

Last batch before I get married!
As of this coming Tuesday the 22nd I will be on vacation.
I will return on the 29th. And will get back to grinding the 30th or 31st. Then back to business!

 

Here are all 3!
One super light vanax skinning blade. Fully skeletonized and crazy thin BTE.
RCF Apex with a beautiful Vanax blade.
Another 4 inch Apex with Royal blue G10 and titanium pins!

 

A knife for @ScooterG
26C3 Apex at 64HRC.
Getting black micarta handles and copper pins.
The bottom 2 knives are fighting knives from 2 different customers.
One is a Zfinit ring knife that will be cerakoted, the other is a larger combat knife in Zfinit. That will have grey terotuf handles (on the way)

More pics to come today!

 

Thanks man. I really appreciate that.

 

A few blades on Z-A11!

 

I have a huge chopper in Z-Tuff!

 

Here she is.
21 inches of 0.340 Z-Tuff!
Lots of grinding to do still.

 

Yea it's an absolute monster!!!

 

Here she is. Almost ready for HT.
Grind on the left side was fighting me a bit. But other than that, each side is pretty close. Once I use the pyro glass platen I should be able to even it out. And bring it up to 120 grit. It's currently at 36.

Took a lot of steel off!

 

In sure as many of you have seen I have not been posting much.

Unfortunately I have to retract my full time knife maker status. Financially it wasnt working for me. I will be finishing the current orders I have.

I plan on reopening books some time in March or April. I will likely only take a few orders. I would like to start experimenting new blade shapes and new models and post them when completed. It will reduce lead time and smooth things out. I would like to get back to really pushing the limits with the new steels.

There will definitely be some wild new projects in 2020!!!

I will keep everyone up to date as I finish up orders.