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How was drilling it? Hard stuff for crap forstner bits that I have to file to get a decent edge on.

Thanks. I poured this one myself with a PVC mould, poly resin, and some mica powder for coloring. It's a lot of fun.

Been busy... Fence in the back yard, renovating my sister bathroom, still fixing shingles from the wind storm 3 weeks ago, and of course some brushes.

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This was an old door frame that was also bearing the weight of the outside bricks. Hence, why it's so big. The second pic is of the top header. Most of it has...

Just pulled this rotten door frame out of an old house in desperate need of a new front door. So much rot.

Discovered the door frame is solid 6x6 oak. Garbage of course...... except when it's me...

Got it done. Still need to clean out the inside of the fireplace and get a tank filled up. Wish it was all ready, tonight is an excellent night. Could sleep out there tonight if I had to.

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I think so. The winds get nasty in the back yard. I was a little apprehensive to drill into my new slab, but it has to happen. When I get rid of this steel gazebo down the road, I'll just have to...

Finally some nice weather in this area. Spent yesterday afternoon getting the main structure of our new 10' x 14" gazebo together on our back patio. Will get the roof on today and hopefully have some...

But it could match that..... :) You need amber scales my friend.

No, a very large EKS Gold Krone. I did some burl scales for it a while ago but they just didn't look right on the blade.

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I have 24 mica powder colours, and 18 ink colours for translucent blanks. The only downside to the whole process is the resin I'm using is ultra stinky.

It's all back in post 12832. Only thing I did different was made PVC moulds, and poured the same resin into those. I made the moulds big enough, so the final resin castings were big enough to make...

I'm cutting scales from it.

Moulds made, resin poured and cured. I'm an idiot tho, had them out in the garage to cure which allowed the dog to somehow get hair and bits of shiiiiiitake into the resin. dumb, dumb. I'm hoping I...

I want to make some simple blanks before I get into using a silicone mould. If the colors don't work out, I may not invest in that.

Well Roy, I work for a general contractor and ALL we use is Imperial. I only know brush lofts in metric. :)

At this point I'm just going to pour rectangular blanks, 6.5" x 2.25" and however thick I want. Probably somewhere around an 1/8 inch. I literally just whipped up some moulds on my lunch break from...

We wont miss 2 feet of pvc, that's for sure. We have so much scrap at the shop, it's unreal. Composite deck would work too, and someone feels the need to keep every 2 foot drop off of that at the...

Heck ya Shaun. We have a high end art store close, and they sell silicone mould making kit. I think use some old scales to make the mould. My brain is also telling me to try pouring over inlays......

Ya Roy, a lot of stuff seems to wander off the shelves at work. I usually try and make up for it some how or other. If it's buying the odd material with my own wallet, or giving some of my own shop...

One of my most favourite blade shapes, The Frederick Reynolds hump back. For a while I was on a mission to get a W&B and a Wostenholm in the exact same shape. Those are a lot harder to come by.
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I really want to try making scales with it next. I think it's possible to match some of the old vintage scales pretty accurately. I'm hoping to give it a go this week. I need to steal some PVC board...

Also, I picked up some Alcohol ink from Michaels as well. I think it's intended for making your own makeup, but it will also work for dying resin so that it's transparent. I'm also going to give that...

What up fellas. I've been away for some time, but I'm still doing stuff. Just wanted to post some of the cool things I've been doing, and share it with you guys because it's easy enough that you...

More brush handles!! Just working on the finish of 2 right now.

Olivewwood/Cocobolo is getting oil, and the veneer handle is getting a high gloss finish.

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