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By Dave, January 21, 2012 11:16 pm

“Better Read That Contract, Mister I-Wanna-Be-In-The-iBooks Store” http://t.co/gwm3zBib One more reason to avoid Apple products. Arsehats!!!

And to have room to set it up need to build the extension on the front of the Q-hut.

Needs to be a little longer and wider at the base. Guess it’s time to make a propane forge as I need much more heat to work metal that way.

Also changed the angle on the sides of the blade a bit. After a repolish it cuts much better. Gonna have to make one of heaver metal.

Played with the knife this morning. Cut OK but not great. Dug out a chain saw diamond sharpener for the rotary tool and resharpened it.

Side blade view showing the curve. http://t.co/J9ge2fUO

Full view of the spoon (curved) knife. http://t.co/sNt1T1Cw

Though it’s a bit shorter I think it will work just fine. If this one works out I’m going to make several different shapes to use carving.

Screwed the ferrule into place and cleaned the excess epoxy off of everything before it set. Will wait till tomorrow to try it again. 🙂

Kneaded a batch of stick epoxy and worked it into the slot in the handle and then forced the blade into place, working the epoxy back in.

Drilled a small hole in the handle a 1/4″ up from the bottom of the slot and inserted a piece of brass wire to hold the bottom of the blade.

With a cutting disk in the rotary tool cut the bottom of the blade square, then cut a 1/4″ long slot in the center of the bottom.

Heated the ferrule over the alcohol lamp to break the epoxy loose & removed it. Pulled the blade out & sawed the epoxy out of the slot.

Well, the epoxy was too weak or I was in too big of a hurry. Possibly both. Blade moved from side to side when cutting.