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WV> Email me one of these days and we'll talk... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Finishing the Harpy now. Love it and hate it. First, filework on a completely serrated blade gives the knife an extremely vicious look, which I kinda like. But the scales, argggh...

VW> Lol <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Now that you mention it, I almost leaned on the open Harpy the other day. I was finishing the lower half of the scale (already glued on the knife) and the duct-tape/paper cover I put on the blade slid off. I didn't noti...

VW> I'll be waiting... Fileworking the Dragonfly required incredible precision because of the swedge. I tried doing just a plain snaking "S" design on a broken Dragonfly blade I have, but that just doesn't look as good as the full vine with thorns... <img src="smile.gif" width=15...

Ted> Yes, the Jester's double-sided. I made the rest of the recent knives one-sided to keep the clip. Earlier I used to make them all double-sided and clipless, and supply leather pouches as well, but that took a lot longer and wasn't really that cost-effective. And yes, I am cutting down. Mostly be...

Well, here it is! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Decided to use padauk (paduak?) for this one, simply because I had a leftover piece that fit the Jester so nice and snugly. Added a nice leather lanyard, but somehow I just can't bring myself to toss this into...

It *was* a nice Cricket, it's gone already, and I didn't even get to really play with it... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Ah, well. I'll get another soon enough, SE probably... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Well, I thought about it, but they usually don't sell on EBay for more than $100, and given the cost of the knife and shipping I'd only get about $7/hr, maybe less. No way to make a living... <img src="smile.gif" widt...

Thought I'd torture you with some juicy pictures again... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Finished another small project: modified SS Dragonfly with a thuya burl/birdeye scale and filework on the blade. Also did small "teeth" on the handle (where my...

Ahh, that Jester won't know what hit him... It'll probably end up with a fileworked blade and thuya burl on both sides... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> WV > I got my diamond files a bit cheaper, because a store in downtown Toronto sells them sometimes out o...

They're just your regular diamond files you can buy in just about any hardware store or even Radio Shack. They work pretty well, except you will need some practice. Unlike regular files that are more or less even, diamond files will have stones stiking out unevenly, which sometimes will force the fi...

I guess I could do a rope filework or something. I have a "disembodied" Dragonfly (handle was destroyed in an unfortunate accident, but I still have the blade intact), so I might try to filework it in the next few days and see how it fares... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=...

Oh, my... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> I don't really think I am confident enough to take someone else's Spydie and carve it up. What if I miss? What if the file slides? When I'm doing my own Spydie, I know if I screw up it's just me, and nobody ever need ...

Couldn't resist... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> It was so easy to work on! Took apart fast and clean. The handle sides are so soft I just fileworked them with plain files. On the blade had to use diamonds, but it still took only about an hour and a half fr...

Thanks! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> And no, I never did find a PE Gunting. It's like they are hiding from me... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Still have my trusty CE Gunting, but I just like the looks of a PE bet...

The SS Crickets are so EASY to work with it's unbelievable... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Just love them... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> <img src="http://members.rogers.com/vesscollectibles/SSCricket.jpg&qu...

Yep, I can live with being outbid by a snipe, because they do pay more than me, and because I can usually sense them coming... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> And yes, the auction cancellers are a very bad thing. BUT I just checked on EBay, and apparently the...

Ahhhh! So THAT'S how they do it! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> I couldn't figure out why someone would make so many bids consecutively, stopping just at the right spot. Never occured to me they might use a script. Bah! EBay really should get some kind of a ...

This is actually pretty tame. I saw a SS Police with about 1/3 of the blade broken cleanly off posted on EBay as a prototype... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Just ordered a PE too...

I cut a lot of cardboard with SE blades. Yesterday I was using the SE portion of the blade on a CE Spydercard to cut up a cardboard box, got careless and sliced open my couch underneath... <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>