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Wife's birthday cleaver holder
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:21 pm
by wannabewoodworker
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:58 am
by nuhobby
Nice little project! For finishing, end-grain can really be brilliant if you do it right.... it might be worth trying a scrap-piece for seeing the end-grain results. I would *not* recommend a water-based poly as the first application layer; it just doesn't look great on end-grain. On the other hand, most oil-type finishes penetrate well and make end-grain "pop", a result which is preserved even if it's eventually overcoated with something else. You might even need to finish once and then sand over lightly to take down the nubs before the next layer.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:31 am
by judaspre1982
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:17 am
by beeg
Great looking project that turned out well. I'd use as a finish. Either orange oil, lemon oil or the butcher block oil (petro free). Whatever ya use, use it on the old knife handles too.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:39 am
by pennview
Mineral Oil from the pharmacy is a excellent finish for butcher blocks and such. Just apply some, let it set for a while, then wipe off the excess. Reapply as necessary. Another would be walnut oil if you have some around. Some use vegetable oils, but they can go rancid and therefore are not a good choice.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:22 am
by skou
pennview wrote:Mineral Oil from the pharmacy is a excellent finish for butcher blocks and such. Just apply some, let it set for a while, then wipe off the excess. Reapply as necessary. Another would be walnut oil if you have some around. Some use vegetable oils, but they can go rancid and therefore are not a good choice.
Walnut oil will naturally harden (dry) like flaxseed or linseed oil does. I've got a friend at work, that uses it on her real wood kitchen table. I use it on my cast iron cookware, for the same reason. Mineral oil will not dry. It will soak in, though.
steve
Re: Wife's birthday cleaver holder
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:39 am
by azonia22
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Re: Wife's birthday cleaver holder
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:17 pm
by JPG
azonia22 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:39 am
I have always loved making knives with my Dad since about five years ago.
This knife is a straight razor cleaver style. The overall length is 10 1/8 inches, The cutting edge is 5 5/8 inches. The blade is 1 1/8 inches deep and 1/8 inch thick. The handle is really pretty maple with brass pins. The blade is made out of a nicholson file.
It is the first knife I forged, but I have made a few others. I wanted the knife to look a little older so I didn't grind all of the forge marks off. The quench on the knife went really well. I got a few bends in the knife but I got them to straightened out.
The sheath design is a bear walking down a trail. The sheath also has a belt loop, and a strap with a brass snap button to keep the knife in the sheath.
I am going to auction this knife starting at a dollar. It will run from now until Monday Feb 5th at 5:00 pm Pacific time.
Thank you, and thanks to the Predator Masters moderators for accepting me as a hobby call maker!
WTH is this?
Re: Wife's birthday cleaver holder
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:20 pm
by RFGuy
JPG wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:17 pm
azonia22 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:39 am
I have always loved making knives with my Dad since about five years ago.
This knife is a straight razor cleaver style. The overall length is 10 1/8 inches, The cutting edge is 5 5/8 inches. The blade is 1 1/8 inches deep and 1/8 inch thick. The handle is really pretty maple with brass pins. The blade is made out of a nicholson file.
It is the first knife I forged, but I have made a few others. I wanted the knife to look a little older so I didn't grind all of the forge marks off. The quench on the knife went really well. I got a few bends in the knife but I got them to straightened out.
The sheath design is a bear walking down a trail. The sheath also has a belt loop, and a strap with a brass snap button to keep the knife in the sheath.
I am going to auction this knife starting at a dollar. It will run from now until Monday Feb 5th at 5:00 pm Pacific time.
Thank you, and thanks to the Predator Masters moderators for accepting me as a hobby call maker!
WTH is this?
JPG (and MODERATOR),
It is spam and this user (azonia22) should probably be removed. The post above seemed VERY fishy to me so I Googled it and found it is another cut and paste (plagiarism) from another forum. If you go to the link below, you will see the top post on that thread is word for word identical to the post here from azonia22. About the only thing they removed was the reference to the post being from an 11 year old. They even reference the "Predator Master moderators" in the last line of the post above, which is the name of the forum where this post was copied from. I noticed the couple of other prior posts on this forum from azonia22 looked suspicious when they were first posted, but clearly this last post sealed it for me.
I would suggest that a MODERATOR or ADMIN should block azonia22...
http://www.predatormastersforums.com/fo ... er=3129693
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Re: Wife's birthday cleaver holder
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:13 pm
by JPG
At least that one had a pix!