Post by jacktheknife on Nov 13, 2011 0:32:08 GMT -5
Gentlemen,
My knife shop has been down for four years.
I spent that time writing a letter to the Texas Rangers, and the D.A. about a problem I had but now that is taken care of and I just want to get back into making knives.
I went out last week and drug everything out of the barn, all three bays. Took a blower and blew out a four year accumulation of dust and leaves. From just inside the entry I blew it out way away from the barn, raked the leaves and burned them in the fire which was right there. Then after the dust all had settled, a little deeper into the barn so as to not choke to death on all the dust. 10'... 20' ... then all the way to the back and it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated.
Swept and washed everything down with a water hose, cleaned everything inside and outside and drug it back in the barn. Went through all the boxes of knife making stuff, handle material, tools, sheath material, a lifetime accumulation of trapping stuff, knife making stuff, lure making stuff, more tools, reloading stuff, fishing stuff ect. dumped them out of their respective boxes but before replacing the stuff cleaned the boxes too after dumping out the dirt and leaves. Then the next few days did the same to the surrounding area, the drive way. Cut up a big wood pile into stove wood or crap to be burned in front of the shop.
Am hauling off a ton of crap so the driveway and knife shop are a good place to work and I will not be distracted by a bunch of undone work or crap. Cut and stacked a ton of fire wood everywhere east, northeast, west, southwest of the house, all the wood is cut up and the crap is dumped.
The old farm never looked so good, well... yes it has but not in a long time. I fired up the forge with my personal cooking propane tank {it had 10 gallons in it} and found the propane leak I was worried about and fixed it. But the little torch that screws on a little camp size propane bottle is in need of replacement. Dern, the forge is fine and but for an $8. part would have forged on a Camp Knife I am making.
{The little propane torch is what I use to light the forge}
Anyway, I get a small check in 5 days and can proceed on the knife making project but I am happy to say that having someone order a knife has given me the impetus to break out of the inertia of not having set foot in the barn in 4 years, of cleaning ad ordering the whole knife shop and getting the forge fixed, the striker fixed, cleaning up and the junk hauled off.
The Camp knife is just a basic everyday knife. 2.5" - 3.5" blade and a drop point from the days before pocket knives. I make skinners for the coon hunting and trapping crowd and stabbers for the Spanish speaking crowd to carry in their shoes. Rain road spike knives are just a blacksmithing novelty but beautiful and I like to make them. I am inspired with the 'Camp knife' and plan to develop the idea and make a bunch of them. {need a knife?}
Thank you...
Jack the Knife
My knife shop has been down for four years.
I spent that time writing a letter to the Texas Rangers, and the D.A. about a problem I had but now that is taken care of and I just want to get back into making knives.
I went out last week and drug everything out of the barn, all three bays. Took a blower and blew out a four year accumulation of dust and leaves. From just inside the entry I blew it out way away from the barn, raked the leaves and burned them in the fire which was right there. Then after the dust all had settled, a little deeper into the barn so as to not choke to death on all the dust. 10'... 20' ... then all the way to the back and it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated.
Swept and washed everything down with a water hose, cleaned everything inside and outside and drug it back in the barn. Went through all the boxes of knife making stuff, handle material, tools, sheath material, a lifetime accumulation of trapping stuff, knife making stuff, lure making stuff, more tools, reloading stuff, fishing stuff ect. dumped them out of their respective boxes but before replacing the stuff cleaned the boxes too after dumping out the dirt and leaves. Then the next few days did the same to the surrounding area, the drive way. Cut up a big wood pile into stove wood or crap to be burned in front of the shop.
Am hauling off a ton of crap so the driveway and knife shop are a good place to work and I will not be distracted by a bunch of undone work or crap. Cut and stacked a ton of fire wood everywhere east, northeast, west, southwest of the house, all the wood is cut up and the crap is dumped.
The old farm never looked so good, well... yes it has but not in a long time. I fired up the forge with my personal cooking propane tank {it had 10 gallons in it} and found the propane leak I was worried about and fixed it. But the little torch that screws on a little camp size propane bottle is in need of replacement. Dern, the forge is fine and but for an $8. part would have forged on a Camp Knife I am making.
{The little propane torch is what I use to light the forge}
Anyway, I get a small check in 5 days and can proceed on the knife making project but I am happy to say that having someone order a knife has given me the impetus to break out of the inertia of not having set foot in the barn in 4 years, of cleaning ad ordering the whole knife shop and getting the forge fixed, the striker fixed, cleaning up and the junk hauled off.
The Camp knife is just a basic everyday knife. 2.5" - 3.5" blade and a drop point from the days before pocket knives. I make skinners for the coon hunting and trapping crowd and stabbers for the Spanish speaking crowd to carry in their shoes. Rain road spike knives are just a blacksmithing novelty but beautiful and I like to make them. I am inspired with the 'Camp knife' and plan to develop the idea and make a bunch of them. {need a knife?}
Thank you...
Jack the Knife
