Black Boar Knives

Hi everyone I hope you all are well.
I want to thanks daughter Leona for giving me a hand to start organising my shed.
Time for a break before finishing these knives.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Hi everyone I hope you all are well.
Today I decided to tidy the ⚫️ well that took me all day and I'm not quite finished yet.
Tomorrow I'll tackle my shed.
I finished off the day doing some work on the blade.I gave it a stippled texture etched in Ferric acid and the gave it quick stone wash.
Time to call it a night.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Hi everyone I hope you all are keeping well and looking forward to the weekend.
Today was more a wee bit of long over due maintenance.
I did manage to get a couple of knives ready for their quench.
Also a couple almost ready to have their scales epoxied.
I finished a kilt pin now it's off to it's new home.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Good afternoon everyone I hope you all are keeping well and getting ready for a great weekend.
Another knife finished and ready for it's new home.
Here's a work in process unfortunately this is not going to be the final.
It's not the shape of the blade handle under neather the antler.
I was just playing around I have to said I do like the handle shape at the moment.
Time for a wee break.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Time to call it a night here's a few knives in various stages of work.
Lots of hand sanding the third one is only sanded to 320 grit. The picture of the the sand paper is just what I've used so far .
Coffee time ☕️
John
When I'm feeling like s**t I just look at these pictures and it always put a smile on my face.

Hi everyone time to call it a night.
It's was a very very late start and I only managed a couple of hours.
However I managed to get a couple of knives ready to go to their new home.
A sgian dubh finished and other one for stock.
Another couple of knives straight off the belt sander. Ready for hand finishing.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Hi everyone I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I had a long weekend and feel all the better for it.
Today I've been working on getting some blades ready for etching. This time I've sanded them up to 5000 grit. I'm hoping after the etch there will be a better contrast between the 15n20 and the 1095.
I also found a live sgian dubh it's a go mai construction of the cutting edge is 80crv2 next it's 15n20 with wrought iron cladding
Also a few knives ready to be epoxied and some leather working ready to be stitched.
It's time for a break.
Coffee time
John ☕️

Hi everyone I hope you all are well and getting ready for the weekend.
I only managed a couple of hours in the workshop today.
I did get a few kilt pins made they still need to get their brooch backs.
The sgian dubhs are not finished yet I still have to make the pommels and fit them. I can do that tomorrow.
Time to call it a night.
Coffee time ☕️
John

Time to call it a night.
Today just getting a few things ready to get a head start tomorrow.
Coffee time
John

A few of the things John has been working on today. 🙂