Dear Nutz

[SkinBasket]

Dear Nutz,

My March visit is tentatively scheduled for March 4th. Don't make any plans. I'll bring the bananas.

xoxo,
Skinbasket

[Deputy Nutz]

Is it warm enough to fish at the end of March? When do the bass start spawning?

[Deputy Nutz]

you know in like Kentucky

[SkinBasket]

Fuck if I know.

[Deputy Nutz]

So I am making knives from scratch. It is hard. I got a belt grinder, and I made a homemade coal forge. Steel isn't to expensive so I can deal with the mess ups. If I had a better belt grinder I could probably do a better job. My work shop(garage) is cold as shit right now so production has slowed.

[3irty1]

So I am making knives from scratch. It is hard. I got a belt grinder, and I made a homemade coal forge. Steel isn't to expensive so I can deal with the mess ups. If I had a better belt grinder I could probably do a better job. My work shop(garage) is cold as shit right now so production has slowed.

That's awesome, got any pics?

[Deputy Nutz]

Not yet, but I will

[Deputy Nutz]

I made a bunch of knives at once. I then had to figure out how to harden them, so I had to build a forge. Two of the knives didn't turn out after heat treating them. Then a few of them I couldn't get a straight bevel so I said fuck it. So out of six knives I have like two of them that I am going to finish with handles.

[SkinBasket]

That's weird. I was just thinking of doing the same. But mostly because the guy we had mount our deer skulls this year makes knives and has all the proper equipment, but that stuff is expensive so I'll just pay him to do it.

[3irty1]

I've always wanted to try it too. I've already got tons of expensive waterstones and sharpening gear for my cooking cutlery that now only gets used about twice a year. So It'd be a fun project to get to do more sharpening.

I've got a few nice leaf springs set aside and I built one of these

...but haven't gotten around to it. Too much reloading to do.

[Deputy Nutz]

The Soup can forge is hard to beat, but I wanted to pretend I was a blacksmith and made a coal forge out of a 8x12" baking pan, steel pipe, and a air pump from an old blow up bed. I built a a table out of 2x4 but it kept catching fire. I am thinking about replacing with steel 2x4s but then they will get pretty hot.

[Deputy Nutz]

That's weird. I was just thinking of doing the same. But mostly because the guy we had mount our deer skulls this year makes knives and has all the proper equipment, but that stuff is expensive so I'll just pay him to do it.

You can start with a cheap belt grinder on Amazon for less than 80.00 bucks.

[Deputy Nutz]

Does anyone see what I am doing? It is so much fun!!!

[SkinBasket]

You can start with a cheap belt grinder on Amazon for less than 80.00 bucks.

If you want to make a shitty knife.

[Deputy Nutz]

It just takes more time.

All my knives are going to be shitty, I never made a knife before.

First knife is finished. It cuts soft tomatoes and can hack wood without chipping, or mangling the edge. It ain't pretty (pictures to follow) but it is completed.