man look at all that yeah just a little sawdust I even had a respirator on let
me turn you around here to show you what I got
all right here is BC with hickory this is some of the Hickory that bill sent me
from Indiana and this is swamp rat with a wood called paddock pa DHA and I'm
fixin up get the hand sanded I may have these sanded down I may be able to get
some true oil on these tonight I still have a knife that's finished I'm just
waiting for some Kydex to come in so I can make a Kydex sheath for it and I
think the next knife I'm gonna make
there's a really fancy schmancy door cheat with uh I may even buy some really
nice wood and these uh mosaic pins polished to a chrome-like finish and and
a really nice decorated you know stamped sheath I just feel like doing something
Purdy so I think that's gonna be my next knife all right let me drink something
watch this sawdust down even though there weren't a respirator but it did
get past it just because of my beard I would imagine and it's it's tight it's
so tight it's you know giving me a headache if I work too long all right
back to Santa man that is some very interesting wood it's really porous
it's going to take several coats of true oil to make this look right I wish I had
some filler but I'm afraid if I use failure it might change the color of
this really neat-looking wood has a whole lot of hand sanding no no here's
the hickory see some right there I need to sand out with it I definitely need
more light in here I need to work on this a little bit more
let me check this side and maybe a little more down on this end too okay
back to the drawing board I'm almost done
well that's coming out nice I put the first coat on yesterday evening and it's
the next morning now and I hit it with some 600 sandpaper put a second coat on
and it's looking real good this is the Hickory and this one I noticed yesterday
that uh it wasn't drying it was tacky and it's like this one
dried within a few hours it was dry enough I could have put a second coat on
but I don't like I like to give it a good 12 hours to dry hard so when I sand
it down that first sanding means something I'm just not rubbing the
finish off I'm sanding the pores smooth the grain and all that so anyway I
generally wait overnight and I was thinking to myself okay well this will
be dry in the morning and it's still tacky
I mean tack you know gooey tacky so I got online and I just googled
how-to or a problem with finish on P dock and it turns out this but dock is a
very very oily wood and there's a certain procedure you have to do to get
any kind of finish to dry on it and that is to rub it down with acetone and pull
the wood out of the first layer and sand it real quick and then put a coat on it
so it may never dry I may have to sand through the goo back down to the bare
wood I did not know that and I really like the I love the color
I love the green one day every time I think I sand it enough oh I sanded the
crap out of this - well maybe a good thing because there's some of the some
that I missed I've got to get some better light or I'm working out there in
my shop the older I get the more light I need when I'm working on something
anyway I'm gonna have to sand this back down to bare wood and they also say that
denatured alcohol is something you could use rub it down with denatured alcohol
and try to remove the wood on the upper surface trying to remove the oil on the
upper surface of the wood and then put your finish on it you're also saying
that something called Oh God I have to go back and look it's some
kind of acrylic water-based clear coat anyway
so I thought I'd let you know that I just learned that vadhaka is a very oily
wood and you have to finish it I probably won't use it again since I
didn't want to when I get to this point I'm ready to put finish on it see yeah
there's some more that I thought I send it out right there yeah I definitely got
to get some better lighting out there so I can hold the light at different angles
I've got plenty of light on my ceiling plenty of light but I need light right
down there where I'm working and that's my next thing I've seen some of the
knife makers with these long flexible LED lights that they clip onto their
Sanders and everything and that's what I'm looking for all right just thought
I'd give you a little update that one is coming out really nice I like that
Hickory I like it a lot it's a good hardwood but it's pretty easy to sand
and this was a hard wood but again about while I was saying that I was thinking
wow for a very hard wood this is really easy to send all righty I can't think of
anything else to say not enough coffee I guess back to the drawing board I'll
send this back down to bare wood all right I sanded that paddock back down to
bare wood and I found something that I think is going to work let me have it I
got the light on here and make sure I don't have any runs because I had to
spray this all right that's what I'm using so uh and it's drying so that's
good to know yeah let this dry hard and buff it down with some steel wool to
make make sure I got all the little dust particles off it and put a few coats of
that on and maybe hmm I don't know if I can mix that true oil or not but if I
put hmm I might I might just try that you know what I have a piece of this
pedasi left over I might spray it with let it dry and then see if the true
loyal will go over it and dry that way because I still want to put the true oil
on this because it's a good finish that is you know not affected by solvents and
normal stuff that you would come in contact with with a knife cleaning it or
you know anyway don't let this dry give it a couple hours I'll come back I sure
do like that wood that is some really pretty wood well that was the trick that
worked well let dry another couple of hours and put another coat of cool but
that stuff I sprayed on there I sprayed three light coats on it and then I put a
coat of this on it and it's dry that's good and I just put the last coat on
that now I'm going to make a fire steel the same wood and I'm going to try to
make the handle for the fire steel sort of mimic the handle for that you know
not the same size of course but a smaller handle that will have that sort
of shape to it and I'm gonna do that next