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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2008 0:43:31 GMT
I am new here. I asked advice on buying a "katana" blade to sharpen and make a wall hanger out of. I got some guidance my first day, thanks again, and ordered one from Musashi . It will be here next week. Until then I was doing some experimenting with the woods I am thinking about using on my customization. If you did not see my intro I have a sawmill and do some woodworking (and a little metal working) and run a sharpening shop. I plan on posting finished pictures of my complete project, polished blade-sword stand...until then I wanted to check in and show what I plan on replacing everything but the blade with. I have a way to make 2 tone dyes on figured wood. First use a waterbased black dye to pop the curl. Let it briefly soak and wipe it off. Then I add my second color (tiger yellow in this case). You would really have to see it in person, figured wood is hard to photo. Just thought I would pop in and say hello again. I will post pics of the finished product late next week (?)
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Post by nemesis on Jan 24, 2008 1:11:22 GMT
Lol, I am a guitar player and have a few guitars with solid flamed maple tops. Thats where my love for exotic looking woods comes from. I had a knife project I was working on where I had some gorgeous flamed koa that I was going to use as knife handles. I then used nitrocellulose to preserve the natural look and man.....did those curles pop right out. At present, I am doing a custom scales on a knife out of sycamore and I hope that one turns out. By the way, welcome to the forum. There are a bunch of friendly and very knowledgable people here. ;D
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Post by nemesis on Jan 24, 2008 1:14:36 GMT
One last thing.....I just visited your website and saw that gorgeous spalted acoustic top! THAT IS TRUELY :AMAZING!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2008 1:47:39 GMT
...I just visited your website and saw that gorgeous spalted acoustic top! Here is the back. The sides were made with curly walnut. The neck curly maple with a fret was also curly walnut...I am a figured wood guy. I used to sell alot to luthiers, I made a guitar as more of an art project than anything. I am not skilled enough to make a proper acoustic guitar. It was pretty (computer crash, no pictures handy) it was a gift to a friend of mine another wall hanger Yea, I mess with 1/4 sawn sycamore too. I makes very pretty knife scales. This is my "box cutter" I carry on my belt, nothing fancy but I made it several years ago and it has seen rough use, a utility thing.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Jan 27, 2008 14:17:48 GMT
I'm gonna try this stuff. Thanks!
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Post by oos3thoo on Jan 27, 2008 18:20:48 GMT
Awesome! I am also a guitar player. I have a guitar made of solid ash. I love the grains. I wonder if zebra wood would be any good for a knife case/handle?
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