Project KOPA

gull wing · #61

You did a fine job.
Your hard work paid off.
The purple is beautiful.

butch · #62

nice work and now you knwo what its all about and hav eto make more to keep gettign
"your fix"

next thing you know you lll have a whole shop of tools and not friends other then knife makers :)

Qcrazy · #63

Hey Tony, That all looks good and should look great when completed. Is that purple heart that you are using? I've worked with many of the exotic woods and have found heart wood to finish nicely. Best of luck and post when done please. Dan

Qcrazy · #64

Sorry, one more question. Why do you think the knife was marked as a second? Dan

ChapmanPreferred · #65

Looks great Tony. Very nice job!

yossarian · #66

Very nice project, Tony. I'd love to do something similar with a Kiwi. I really like that knife but haven't cared much for any of the scale choices to date.

tonydahose · #67

butch wrote:nice work and now you know what its all about and have to make more to keep getting
"your fix"

next thing you know you lll have a whole shop of tools and no friends other then knife makers :)

thanks alot Butch, "nice work" means alot coming from someone of your caliber of a knifemaker. i do know what you mean by the fix...i am itching to get back to work but i left all my tools in a locker at work. i probably wouldnt get anything done at home if i didnt do it that way.

mscox wrote:Very nice project, Tony. I'd love to do something similar with a Kiwi. I really like that knife but haven't cared much for any of the scale choices to date.

buy one and start tearing apart :) that or send it my way and ill have a crack at it :D

thanks eveyone else for the compliments

Tank · #68

NIce Job. Looks really good. I really like the choice of wood. Look forward to seeing #2.

tonydahose · #69

ok here is number 2, yellow kauri. i have it sanded down to 600 grit, the higher ones are in the mail along with the material for kopa #3 :) . they say this wood really comes to life when you get up to 1000-1200 grit so we will see. no pics of the how to as that would be redundant. the one side has a shine to it because i oiled the lockbar and it went onto the scales. it does have some cool grains when you look closely at it. i made a vid but it is taking forever to upload to photobucket. i'll add it when it finally does.

edit: ok here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM2Vw4CNkgA

i won this a few days ago, it looked like a diverse bunch of wood that would be fun to put on the kopas

telemeister · #70

That Kauri looks fantastic! I'd definitely order one if they were available. You've got a couple of pieces of interesting wood there. The zebrawood looks like it could produce some interesting results. There are a couple of pieces down the bottom of your first pic that also look like they'd make nice scales (walnut burr?).

Great job!

bh49 · #71

Tony,
Great job, it looks even better than first. You got nice pile of wood. Are you planning to change scales only on Kopas or some other projects on your mind?

The Deacon · #72

Great work Tony! The Kauri appears to have some nice "curly" figure and chatoyance. Am betting the finer grit sanding will bring those out even more.

kankryb · #73

That looks great that kauri, Good job there. :cool:

tonydahose · #74

thanks for the compliments everyone. Roman, i am actually going to start work on a kiwi for Paul, if it turns out nice he has another one for me to do as well. I also have a job to do on a kopa for one of the members on here. all proceeds will be reinvested into more :spyder: s or gear to mod them. :D

defenestrate · #75

The kauri is quite beautiful, Tony. well done!

tonydahose · #76

we interupt this kopa project to bring you
PROJECT KIWI

Paul was kind enought to give me a chance to mod a kiwi for him. enough talking, here ya go :) .

ok a little info on this knife. it used to be a red bone kiwi, Paul gave me some stabilized Koa and i went to work. i sanded all the way to 2000 but it seemed to get a weird glassy looking film on it. Paul didnt want it polished but i tried a piece of the left over Koa and it shined up really nice so i polished it and it looks beautiful IMO. i hope you guys like but most especially i hope Paul is happy with it.

tonydahose · #77

ok here is the latest addition, Black Cherry Kopa :D . this one is actually going to kankryb aka Kenneth, i am going to go make mine now :) the material is Black Cherry Polyester.

i hope you like it Kenneth

JaM · #78

Very nice...

I'll keep on following this thread with interest.

JaM

Sequimite · #79

The purpleheart was nice, but the kauri and black cherry are fantastic.

Great work, Tony.

tonydahose · #80

thanks! i finished mine as well after screwing up one side 3 freaking times