bladegrinder

The only reason I stacked them was my wheels are 10" and at the time all I could find were 1/4", that was pre-internet days ha ha. black is pretty much the opposite of green. if your looking to use this just for sharpening white and green should be all you need.

I believe I have the same buffer but 3600 rpm. I use it in knife making and have had it about 30 years. what I use are 1/4" wheels stacked to 1" you can find them at Trugrit abrasives or other knifemaking suppliers. whether you use one or stack them there is considerable time involved getting it balanced on the shaft to run true, you just have to keep adjusting it on the shaft until it runs smooth and there's no vibration. if your going with two compounds I'd go with white and green, green being the finest...and messiest. get a wheel for each compound. congrats on the buffer, I believe the Baldor with 3/4" shafts are the best out there. and be careful a buffer can be the most dangerous machine in the shop. Edit...the wheels I use are spiral sewn.

Thanks Gezzer, I have a welt running between both knives and along the cutting edges but that's only where they are. I almost used three layers and just cut out where the knives were going but I wanted to try and keep it thinner and lighter. And like I told Cattleman there's a cam on the welts that when done right, the knife goes in a little tight, then when it goes over that cam it's...snap, good and secure!

Thanks Cattleman, after the sheath is done I dip it in water for about 5-10 seconds they open it a little with my fingers and push the knife in. once it's in where I want it I put in in a heavy plastic bag, pull a vacuum and form it real good with a piece of polished antler. I really don't think the vacuum is needed for knife sheaths but I use it anyway because it's available, then take it out and leave the knife in for about 20 min. pull it out and put it in a PID controlled toaster oven at 150 for 45 min. or so, flip it and leave another 45 min or so. it comes out hard but still has some flex on the sides. The hopeful part for me is going in the first time, I put a hump, or cam in the welt that the finger choil rides over then snaps into the sheath, this one worked out good but sometimes I have to use a partially taped up rat tail file to lower the cam point so the knife will get by it.

Thanks Hags!

I never made a double knife sheath and don't really recall ever seeing one and I had my fingers crossed the whole time I made this that it would work and look good. this is going to be donated to the Safari Club for their annual fund raiser. the knife set is a camp knife with a 5" blade of CPM154 stainless with Desert Ironwood scales, black G10 bolsters red G10 liners and nickel silver pins and lanyard hole. it's mini me brother is a skinner in the same material with a 3" blade. the sheath is 7 oz. Herman Oak, Fiebings light brown and black dye with black thread and a light coat of Resolene. Thanks for looking!

That looks great!

I made the mistake of clicking the link you added, what a bunch of leftist liberal views on firearms, obviously written by college students.

I must have missed this one, that looks great!

I use to drive five hours to hunt, now I live on the property yee ha! now I never walk more than 200 yards from the house. bow season starts here next week.

Never had chicken salt but I just looked and Amazon has several including that Chippy salt pictured above

Those are cool, I use to drive a utility truck and I had a voodoo doll I picked up in New Orleans stuck to the dash board. A tag with a guy’s name I didn’t like there was pinned to its chest. Got a lot of laughs with that.

Looks good Chuck, ready for the woods!

Did you mix it 50/50 with water? I mix it with water and not nasty city tap water, I have clean deep well water at my place but I use distilled water anytime I'm mixing something important. don't know if it would make a difference but thought I'd throw that out there.

Put it in a crock pot with potatoes carrots onions and a pack of stew mix. Let it cook for 8-10 hours. If that doesn’t fix it nothing will.

All vacuum packed and ready for hunting season...or the couch!

While the venison sticks were smoking I went and pulled some pine tree stumps, these were blow overs from hurricane Michael. I'm still cleaning up from that. some were in kind of wet areas that I need to wait till it's really dry to pull them and get them out. I got my tractor stuck twice, never again!

Bought an electric smoker the other day on sale, I have two wood burners but I thought I'd see what these electric ones are all about. This was my first smoke in it, #5 of venison snack sticks. they came out great!

That looks really good, at the tip where the blade curves I would have cut the leather to follow the curve for and inch or so then continue the stitch line around the tip and up the spine where it was cut for the curve.

That’s some really nice carving!

That looks great! I would have put some border grooves on the strap and end the strap about an inch past the snap.

Very nice looking holster and belt rig!

That's a great looking holster JW, I like my cap and ball guns too! got a Ruger old army and a Colt Walker rep.

Very nice! I'd hate to get wacked in the temple with that!

Very clever, nice looking holster!