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While busy with finetuning the handle the knife slipped out of my rubber coated vise and fell from a measured hight of 1.10 meter on one of the concrete sidewalk tiles which form the floor on my balcony, and landed on the belly part of the edge. I did not try to catch the falling knife :-) To my sur...

Currently experimenting a bit with different grits of diamond paste on thin cardboard to see what gives both a nice blade finish as well as a good apex. Already found that only removing the burr is not enough to get the sharpest of edges on this steel, i have to continue stropping a bit to also get ...

How the blade looks after hand regrinding to full convex again on the green silicon carbide side of the Foss combination stone used with WD40 oil.
The new edge angle measures ~20 degrees inclusive.

Regrinding the old jimping / notching using a cordless drill with diamond bit & WD40 oil:

The blade has been hand reground on the Foss 7205 combination stone (burr is partly visible), and a few refining steps on wet & dry SiC paper will follow later.
Now regrinding the swedge with 300 and 600 grit diamond files.

Busy fine sanding the handle surface:

The new leather midsection after rough machine sanding with a cheap Parkside linisher (which i modified so it can do slack belt sanding):

Currently busy with making a new leather midsection for the handle of knife # 2:

Both Pontus Holmberg knives are made from iron ore from the Dannemora mine, which resulted in very pure steel due to it being rich in manganese. In earlier centuries it was known as "oregrounds iron": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregrounds_iron However i don't know if that name was still...

The second knife is a bit worse, also due to the handle's leather midsection which had rotted over time together with a pommel stuck in place. https://i.ibb.co/ZLf6QVw/GEDC3616.jpg https://i.ibb.co/89HCKJt/GEDC3617.jpg https://i.ibb.co/1XV4jJV/GEDC3618.jpg https://i.ibb.co/z8gXmNv/GEDC3619.jpg https...

Blade hand reground to it's original full convex blade shape on a Foss 7205 black/green silicon carbide stone used with oil, then refined on 400 grit and 1000 grit SiC wet & dry paper used with oil on glass, and the tiny burr stropped off on hard cardboard with 1.0 micron diamond paste. The new ...

Recently acquired these two fixed blades made by Swedish manufacturer Pontus Holmberg. According to this website the model was once used as a survival knife for the Swedish Air Force: http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/knivar/aforce/1survival.htm https://i.postimg.cc/KKKGKHn7/Pontus-Holmberg-Wade...

Statins and aspirin can have a lot of side effects over time. A safe alternative for both is nattokinase: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6043915/ Edit: i see that you're already taking this supplement :-) My own experience with it so far after a little over a month taking 3 tablets dai...

A fellow collector's recent addition is this J.Rodgers & Sons pocket bowie. He visited me today for some knife talk and a cup of coffee, and i just had to take a few snapshots of this old school Sheffield made gem. https://i.ibb.co/8Y9BYdt/GEDC4538.jpg https://i.ibb.co/NymM9T7/GEDC4536.jpg https...

Forever makes 2 versions of these sintered titanium alloys, and a couple of years ago i did a review of both with the help of a professional Chef: The one with ceramic particles: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/forever-titanium-hybride-knife-ght-16-cera-titan.1255619/ And the one with actual dia...

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Convex ground this old Buck mini-Strider 881 by hand some time ago:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/buc ... d.1863735/

Recently i stumbled upon a very useful website, and i've already dug up several very hard to find old books & manuscripts with it.
If you like reading books, magazines, comics, etc too, this website might come in handy.
Thought i'd share :-)

https://annas-archive.org/

Kelly Kettle Base Camp stainless & a Big Berkey here.

A recent thrift shop find, and bought for a fart and three marbles (dutch expression, meaning for next to nothing) From research i learned that J&R Dodge Sheffield didn't manufacture anything themselves, but instead bought high quality cutlery, razors and tools from well established Sheffield ma...