Latest out of the shop here. Top knife is Walnut with orange G10 liners, not visible in the pic. Next is blue laminate G10 and the last was camo laminate G10, but mostly FDE showing, which is fine. I'll do a leather sheath for the walnut, black kydex for the blue and FDE kydex with a black clip for the last one.

Some pics during dry fit as well as the glue up portion as well... and yes, shop is a disaster. First pic looks like the tip is burned, but was a shadow. Used a brushed/rough finish and then tumbled blades in ceramic media. The FDE knife got a coating of cold blue afterwards to finalize the more 'tactical' look. Looking back at the Walnut, I should have extended the scales a little more and did something else rather than a blunt, straight line... not much I can do about it now. Still turned out pretty. Still need to put an edge on these, as well.

Blanco is a great friend. Always around for everything. Even when you kind of want him to leave.

Did the recycling today

Fun with squirrels

I hate x bows...But a turn in luck...My buddy is giving me his KI Boss 405 when the new limbs arrive Wednesday... He is getting a KI Fatal X....Its a blessing... Money in budget for Pennsylvania 22 pcp...Lots of squirrel coyote fox.and few elusive ground hogs...

Update I hate crossbows!!!!!!!! Ahhhhh....Just setup my buddies KI Boss 405with UTG 130 BDX scope......Spent a day and had it hit the target perfectly at 120 yards.....not as accurate as Airsaber put pretty good......Anyways bow season starts buddies adjusting scope says it moved inches at 20 yards.....I had it perfect... Told him limbs are probably shot.....seen him today limbs spit....had to make contraption to fire xbow with frayed limbs...his third set of limbs...warranty.. But still unreliable..... Crossbow are effective but disposable....

I absolutely love my Airsaber.. It shoots so constantly.. It never breaks... Ahhh I have to go waste my money again on my third crossbow... Wish regulations would change.... Crossbow s are a disposable item sadly.... Airsaber so .much more friendly to use being semi handicap..... My last crossbow I recycled when the limbs broke and no parts available..... Its now a stock for my .510 Texan....

It must be time to spray again. I woke up and walked to the bathroom, slipped on my pajama pants (that were lying on the floor) and whack! I got stung in the ass by a bark scorpion Kinda funny, except for the pain in my ass.

Wall art for the wife

Mug designed for family friend.




Another mug design

And yet another ceasefire!

Got rough grinding done on a new batch of knives today. I call this model the 'SW' after a friend of mine who had one like it and I loved the compact design so I made a template.

These are all roughed out for now. I will heat treat and temper back and then can finish grind and then... hand sanding before attaching scales. After curing, can finish grind the scales and hand sand those. I played around a bit with some different grinds and also different pin sizes. Two of them will get brass bolsters and a couple have lanyard holes in them.

For scales, I'll be using some G10, Cocobolo, Walnut, and will dig through my scale supplies to see what else I might use.

Also throwing up a serving tray I did with resin and maple and a wall plaque for a buddy of mine who is a Marine vet. Finished those last week and have another one that I'm working on. Note that on the walnut piece this was after the initial coat of oil and so that walnut sucked in quite a bit. I've since added several more coats to make the finish more uniform.

...and tossing in a pic of my last two bowls I turned. One was cracked quite a bit so filled in with resin. and finally a pic of my first, and likely last, Karambit. A complete pain to grind. Scales are carbon fiber resin with a CA glue finish. I picked carbon fiber out of my fingers for days. Never again.

Seem like i am also a pretty decent long distance pellet slinger.

After playing a little today with the slugs, and the wind dying down a little, i figured why not try pellets too.
But i did change from 86 M to the even Steven 80 M distance.

Mind you, you still had to pay attention to the wind, at least if you wanted to hold all of your shots on the 2" target.
As it can be seen in the picture that was also true with the slugs.
Also you have to remember my wind indicators are leaves on trees at targets and then the tall grass in the field.

So i paused long range for a hour focussing on 50 M where a shot a 50 yard BR paper, but i am not going to share that as really it was no good at all.
So when the wind had died down a little more i changed to 80 M again for the remainder of my targets, and i quickly learned that the speed i shot 50 M with, it was no good at 80 M.
Actually i ended up shooting the JSB heavy pellets as speeds i dident even think worked for them, but at 80 M it was sort of OK.
Sort off, CUZ i still had the wind to work with and the ever changing POI on my Maverick i have to chase around with the scope.

BUT ! all things considering i am still pretty happy with the 400 slugs and few 100 pellets i spent at the range today.



I still wish i was able to shoot heavier stuff, even if it was just the next up caliber of .22

This was my pig pen a few years back. Think a garden next spring. Took down the fence, electric fence wire and pig house this year.

The dog said, "cease fire"!

New order for local boutique. Acacia wood coasters, bamboo cutting board and the crowd favorite, Yeti type tumbler.

We survived a full frontal assault from the Tornado that hit Michigan. My home we learned today will need to be torn down. It twisted on the foundation and was pushed back.
It's humbling to put this out there.
Thank you.
Rob

New product from the Lazer lab. Leather Patch on stainless steel tumbler. I like this one a lot. The leather takes a little less power, so this prototype is a bit over exposed.

Look at the bid on this airgun. $1630 50 minutes to go

Made some targets this morning.

Little one is getting ready to be a Rodeo Princess for our Southern New Mexico State Fair.

Horsemanship yesterday.


Talent and Impromptu speaking today. Got the game face on!

At first horrible day at the range today, mainly to blame on the wind that was not at all nice, so as i shoot a little up hill and the wind was spiraling my shots would drift sideways or also up and down.
The latter compounded by the Damn FX regulator, which i now just can not get to shoot the same speed, or i can get it to do that within very few FPS, but then 3-4-5 shots and BAM and i get a shot that is either slower by 10 - 20 FPS or faster by 10 - 20 FPS.
So i am getting one of the new FX regulators, and when it is installed i am so over FX rifles, and heading for another brand.

Mind you once the wind died down as it began to rain a little, well i think i shot my best BR 50 card with the maverick.
But it took more shots than are on the paper as i had to go off target now and then to get past one of those god damn randop sped shots, and then i could go back on the paper for a few shots / sighters.
So i have no ides how long you have to shoot a BR 50 paper in competition, but i took a long while compensating for the random speed shots, and then of course i also had to pay attention to the wind / the 1 wind vane i put up ( right next to target and made up of a strip of duct tape on a stick )
Anyway the paper look like this.



I will update with a video of a few 82 M shots at 2" shoot N see targets, not really nice in the wind, but it what it is.

This was on another website. Hahaha

Some bird or critters planted these for me.

Dodging the sun , shooting a few rounds while being patient learning to use my scope better!