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It was talcum powder, and I have just tried finding it online here in NZ.

https://www.chemistwarehouse.co.nz/buy/ ... WuEALw_wcB

I had an old cheap airbrush and backed off the needle a to allow thicker paint to flow. It was worn enough to throw away, so I tried talcum powder on a higher pressure than I used for paint. I blasted a piece of cardboard, then balsa wood then 7075 aluminum. I was impressed enough to try micarta and...

I have used talcum powder for a great finish.

The Ti coating will act as a guide, so no worries.

Use whatever you want to use...this is a "see what happens" trial?

Al
I would suggest using a black marker pen to blacken the area that you want to cut.

Start with a tri-angle file to get the position, and file to almost the desired depth you think you need.

THEN use the chainsaw file to get the profile.

You can file H1 with a chainsaw file...but be prepared to take about 15 minutes for EACH large serrated concave profile.

Sorry to bore you all, but VG10 is still my favourite steel.

Fireman wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:08 pm

RadioactiveSpyder wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:31 pm

Or just engrave a 5 next to the Spyderhole

This is an absolutely brilliant idea

THAT is clever!

I was due to go to Spyderco last October, and weird circumstances altered that trip. I am now booked to go October this year to LA for SIX weeks. THIS time, a trip to Golden is, well, Golden... :usflag :bug-red-white :winking-tongue :smiling-heart-eyes :smiling-hearts :cheap-sunglasses :star-struck ...

I made 10 Kukhris years ago, maybe for Sal's perusal... BUT, you can buy cheap machetes and kukhris, and Spyderco's manufacture might make the price a tad more for such a simple object. I have two other knives in Spyderco's queue, if ever that they decide to make them, so I gave a few kukhris away, ...

I have been writing poetry and various novels since 1975. Sometimes the poetry appears in Poetrysoup and elsewhere on the Interwebs... One about the waste of war. Poppies In Profusion Poppies in Profusion on the proud chests of the Brave Old and aging survivors, of a time when things were Grave Ston...

Here's a thing...

Spyderco cannot support ALL the health and mental societies..........we can actually donate to the charity or health awareness society with our own money at any time. As often as we want. When we want, As much or as little as we want...

Just saying...

What Sal says...

What might help is to put a black marker pen mark on the edge as it exists.
When you remove metal, the black marker worn away will tell you where the steel is removed.

I need to get an LC200N blade at at some time, maybe when I get to Golden?

Funny thing is, I traced my Yo2 a few months ago and made up some Pakkawood scales. Then a Pakkawood blade but with a big disc of Milliput putty on the tip. Pivot pin at blade pivot point of the blade, and another pivot pin at the rear of the scales. Small neobium magnet at the rear of the blade whe...

My main EDC for a long time now has been the Yojimbo, but before that was the Tenacious. If I go to a place where edges are frowned upon, the Tennie is my EDC. The reason is the length of edge, and the handle comfort second. The steel type is merely an academic exercise anyway. ( sorry to the supers...

I know it will never happen, but the original Worker in black FRN would be nice. FRN molds for the Delica or suchlike might be close enough? Call it the De-Worker? Problem is that folk will want a gazillion choices of color, and steel types that have not been invented yet, and assorted blade profile...

Yojimbo 2 as utility, and food prep, as whatever grabs my attention.

The tip is still there, and the song remains the same.

BTW, there is also a folder in the queue... Comp Lock and G10

Sal has a fixed blade of mine in a drawer somewhere, Butterscotch G10 scales and a smaller profile from what I have submitted before, but there is a loooooong list.