New Sheath design for the Black Cherry Pugio

Wanted to do something a little different for the sheath for this one. Had an idea come to me late last night, and 1st -thing this morning, I got right on it..

and while I was waiting for the sheath to dry, I decided to try to get the Cherry handles on the Muj-Slayer up to the same spec/ level of finish as I did with this Pugio...

Another round of course, then fine-sanding, and another coat of Tung Oil later.. and she's back to the buffing wheel.

Deepest Purple Strat (re-) build

Since I've determined I have 2 necks on-hand that will fit this beast, I decided to resume work on sanding the body of what will, eventually, become a Deepest Purple-finished strat.

Problem is, this thing was originally coated in one hell of a thick/tough paint job of gloss Black...
It has proven very difficult to sand it away, especially in the cut-away horns, where none of my sanders will fit..

So.. break out the old, aging hands, and some elbow-grease..

hopefully, next day or so, I can secure the primer and the paint, and begin the finishing..

Black Cherry Modern Pugio

Decided to make some handles for one of my Pugio blades- some more Black Cherry, again .

Shaped, and sanded to 120 grit

..and the 1st coats of Tung Oil.

and fine sanding to 900 grit before the next coat of Tung Oil.

Second coats of Tung Oil.

and after an hour or two in the direct sunlight to cure the oil, and darken the Cherry  ...some buffing

and , ta-da!

A bit of Bling for Gunfighters...

Fresh from my Gunfighter's Habberdash... a wee bit of bling, to dress up the action..

A Bolo/ string-tie that I made using a fully-expanded Gold Dot hollow-point as the ornament. :)

230 grains @ 870 feet per second of John Moses Browning's finest creation.
Was a recovered round from one of my penetration/expansion tests of my carry ammo.
And yes, it worked perfectly as designed- penetrated 4 layers of denim, 1" of solid pine, and the F.B.I. minimum-requirement of 12-14 inches of gel.  :)

A simple, improvised Sgian -dubh

I found an old throwing-knife laying around, that I'd gotten a set of (3) some years ago.
Over the years, it had gotten dinged, bent, etc.. so, no longer useful as a throwing knife, I decided to modify it.

Into, roughly, an improvised Sgian-Dubh (Scottish Dagger of the 1600s-1700s)

Originally, this knife had no handles, just bare metal. So, I made some quickie ones from some scrap Oak I had around.

And, I made a simple sleeve-sheath for it- that can be tucked into a boot, or a pocket, etc.

Eventually, I will grind, hone and polish the blade some more.

Colin's Wallet- completed!

Finished off all but some minor trimming/ tidying-up of stitching. But she's ready.

Colin's wallet

Got a fair bit done on the wallet today- Puzzle for today was figuring out the interior panels, and how to include the card-slots ,without making the thing way too bulky.

So, once I figured out my rough lay-out, time to begin the initial stitching -up..

The inside panels will have card slots inside and out-instead of just outside / front of the panel.

So, got one side done , today. Will complete the second side done , hopefully tomorrow, and then tidy up the final stitching, and she's done!

Colin's Knife 4

Some final hand-sanding, and buffing of the Rosewood

Colin's knife and wallet 3

Making quiet a bit of progress on the projects today.

Got the interior glued-in to the core leather for the wallet , and now a test-wrap of the Ostrich for the exterior-

Initial glue-in, and stretching of the Ostrich to the outside of the core leather-

Rough trimming of the glued-up Ostrich

And for the knife- mounted the 1st handle -

and now the second handle is drying -

After that, there'll be one more round of final-sanding of the Rosewood, then buffing, and the knife will be complete!