/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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I've been using a bit Brownells gunstock oil, then once its dry cutting it back with s-wool and polishing in a concoction of bee and carnauba wax. Its not inordinately expensive and seems to be working fairly well.

Started finally finishing off a little hunting/fishing knife, bit of work still to go on that one, its only about 5" long and the huge PIA the guard gave me reminded me why I so rarely bother doing them. Still with some fnangling and filing got a nice tight fit. Its a hidden tang with just two slabs of Gidgee with a G10 sandwich, big ol brass pin to hold it together and some brass-SS wrap on the bolster area for wear and grip.

Underneath it is the BFK, 10" chef's knife I started some time ago. Its a fucking monster of a thing which has the bottom 3/4's hollow ground and the tip is a high-flat grind with a a really severe distal taper to knock the weight out of it. So its nowhere as heavy as you'd expect, at this point I'm probably going to give it an extended bolster-keyhole handle into it, but after spending all afternoon fucking around with those I'm kind of thinking that may be more effort than I feel like doing though

Last one is an 8" chefs knife with acid-etched D6 and 304SS, Buloak + ebony scales with G10 liners and turquoise inlay. Saya is just pine I stained and tried to match as close as I could. Handle is really sweet and fits like a glove
That's going out to its new owner this week sometime.