| Lots of W.I. P., no completions today |
[Feb. 10th, 2008|07:22 pm] |
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No new knives were completed today. So that means the 17 I have done need to goto the UPS store tomorrow to get shipped UPS orange label to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ladysabina in California. That will get them to her on Thursday and She can bring them to the show on Friday. (She will be at the show with me and is the other badge holder for my table.) Anything I get done between now and Wednesday night will have to go in checked luggage. Which I'm hoping will be at least three more pieces.
Right now I have a large ballock knife ready for the final handle carving by my wife. So that should get done in time. I also have a third pattern welded tomahawk completely forged to shape (welded, drawn down, welded back on it's self, ax eye drifted,blade forged to shape and currently annealing, all today). Tomorrow I should be able to grind it to final shape and heat treat it. Allowing me to finish grind, polish, etch and mark it and add a handle on Tuesday. I have three more knives profiled with a tang welded on. If any of them are going to make to the show, then need to be ground an heat treated tomorrow as well. Because they would will need to be finished ground, have bolsters and butt plates made, be assembled and epoxied on Tuesday. The epoxy would then need to cure over night in order to finish shaping, polishing and finishing the handle on Wednesday in order to get in the suitcase.
That work in progress does not include include three custom order pieces. So including those my total work in progress stands at eight pieces in various states of completion. Plus I still have several billets ready to weld. Which is a good thing. Because after this show I'll move right onto preparations for the SCA's Gulf Wars in March. I think this is what a busy season is supposed to feel like (assuming, I sell any knives at any of these shows coming up)
Scott B. Jaqua
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