My first flight!

Photos from last weekend. My first paragliding flight!!!
Height 540m. Preety scary for such a "feet on the ground" guy like me ;) I hope there will be more!

[COOPERATION] Rudy

     Hello! I have just finished a knife made in a cooperation with my brother. I designed the knife, my brother make a blank and made a rought grind., then I finished the knife. The leather sheath was made by Swiety Leatherworks.

   The idea was to make some kind of modern puukko, very usable and ready to work. The scandi grind is a lot higher than in bushcraft knives, so the blade will not be as strong as in bushcraft knife but will cut a lot better.

Steel: N690
Blade thickness: 3 mm
Blade length: 9,5 cm
Overall length: 20,5 cm 
Handle material: Brown Canvas Micarta
Sheath material: Leather

         

       

[TUTORIAL] How to make a kydex sheath?

 About two months ago I decided to make some tutorials and put it in my blog. Finally first of them is finished! I will show you how I make my kydex sheats. It will be a sheath with a cordura belt loop and a firestarter. Hope it will help someone! You can watch the tutorial by finding a link on the right panel of the blog or by just clicking here:
[TUTORIAL] How to make a kydex sheath?

I will try to correct any mistakes in the tutorial when I found any. It will be updated when needed.

Knives on The Stump IV

Some photos from last visit in my workshop:
1. A series of neck knives with: brown linen micarta, green canvas micarta, yellow G10, orange G10, ironwood and thuja wood.
2. Two blanks after rough grinding.
3. My customization of a custom knife made by my brother. Almost finish :)
4. Last, the biggest friction folder from the squirrel series. D2 tool steel, titanium and OD green G10.

Swiety Custom Leatherworks

  Hello again! I decided to make another cooperation with a sheathmaker from Poland. This time it will be a great leatherworker called Swiety (eng. 'saint'). He is well known in Poland not only by making leather goods, but also because he has played a part in promoting handmade leatherworking in our country. He makes a various leather stuff: sheats, pouches, belts, bags, wallets, cases, leather razor sharpeners and many, many more.. What is more, he uses different styles: from very decorative to simple and utility. Another thing very characteristic in his works is great quality decorative stampings. I will show only a very smal sample of his works.

More you can watch here: swietyleather.wordpress.com 

Can wait to see how my sheath will look like...

My titanium micro tools 4

   It'c been almost 2 months since my last post but I was preety busy in my job. Fortunatelly, last weekend I found some time and visited my workshop. I managed to finish a very special titanium bottle opener - Booottle Mooonster! It is 6al-4v titanium, beadblasted, anodized and then polished. Hope you like it :)

 

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Knives on The Stump III

During my last visit in workshop I made a photo of almost all fixed blades that are being made. Also a photo of two almost finished knives with natural canvas micarta (I need to make a leather sheath for them).

Kitchen Squirrel Friction Folder

  This is a second knife from "The Sons of the squirrel" series. Probably the smalest kitchen knife in the world ;). The scales are made of 3,2mm titanium, backspacer is made of orange G10 (there is no photo of it, but it is easy to see on the video).

Steel: N690 (cryogenic heat treatment)
Blade thickness: 3 mm
Blade length: 5 cm
Overall length: 13,2 cm 
Handle material: titanium, orange G10
Locking mechanism: friction ;)

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Christmas Grinding

A short photostory from last Christmas when I found some time to visit my workshop

I started from gathering all the knife steel I have. It occuerd that there
is a lot of it... I found some RWL-34, D2, N690, AEB-L, NZ3, NC6

Safety first!

I cut the blades with an angle grinder and a bow saw

Some blades roughly cut

The blanks after meeting with a grinder

Gluing a handle of the big blade in my Orange Survival Set

Testing of almost finished knives

Me as Santa Claus giving a present for my godson

Ski-running with my father